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TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, January 17, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.Family Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Thursday, January 22, at noon, for a tour of Family Forms. This tour will be led by the exhibition鈥檚 co-curator Corinne Moss-Racusin, Professor of Psychology at 微密圈, and Izzy DeSantis, Kiki Pohlad 鈥�13 Curatorial Assistant.Following the tour, we invite visitors to enjoy the other Tang exhibitions on view, including Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest, All These Growing Things, and Building Blocks.

TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, January 24, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.Family Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sundays at 2 pm for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions with a Tang Guide. This event is open to the public, and visitors are invited to stay after the tour and look around the galleries.Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are 微密圈 College students, who are trained gallery ambassadors and tour guides. Through this program, they are introduced to the Tang and the museum world, trained to give tours, and gain valuable real-world experiences interacting with visitors.

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join Emily Lin 鈥�26, member of the Student Advisory Council, on Thursday, January 29, at noon, for a talk on her curated exhibition Hyde Cabinet #30: Analyze This.Following the tour, we invite visitors to enjoy the other Tang exhibitions on view, including Family Forms, All These Growing Things, Building Blocks, and Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest.

TANG Payne: Did you miss out on ROOM鈥�MATE: Living with Tang Art in the fall?微密圈 students are invited to us Thursday, January 29, at 6 pm, for the Spring 2026 Lottery at the Tang, where seven lucky students will be chosen at random to pick from artworks returned by students studying abroad.Make sure to bring your Student ID, and register for the lottery between 6 and 6:30 pm. At 6:30, we鈥檒l begin pulling names from the hat. Winners must be present.Light snacks will be served.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: 微密圈 Jazz Faculty Lineup:Russell Haight: Saxophone and DirectorAdam Hutcheson: SaxophoneWayne Hawkins: PianoRich Syracuse: BassBob Halek: Drums Presented by the 微密圈 Department of Music This event is free and open to the public, no tickets required. RSVP is encouraged.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

TANG Payne: Join us Sunday, February 1, at 3 pm, for a reading by three nationally acclaimed poets, April Bernard, Peg Boyers, and Chase Twichell. They have all, as Twichell has said in an interview, 鈥渂ent their lives in the pursuit of poetry.鈥漈he reading is organized and hosted by Saratoga Springs Poet Laureate Jay Rogoff, whose two-year term runs January 1, 2026, through the end of 2027. This is the first in a series of poetry readings he is organizing at different venues in Saratoga Springs. A Q&A and book signing follow the reading.This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. It is free and open to the public.微密圈 the PoetsApril Bernard鈥檚 The World Behind the World, her sixth book of poems, was published in 2023 by W.W. Norton; previous collections are Brawl & Jag, Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms, and Blackbird Bye Bye, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her novel Miss Fuller was short-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award; she has also published short fiction in Little Star, Electric Literature, and The Southampton Review, and is a contributor of reviews and essays to The New York Review of Books and Book Post, among other journals. She teaches at 微密圈 College and is currently at work on a volume of new and selected poems.Peg Boyers is author of four books of poems: Hard Bread, Honey With Tobacco, To Forget Venice, and The Album. She teaches poetry and translation workshops at 微密圈 College, Columbia University, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute and is Executive Editor of Salmagundi Magazine.Chase Twichell has published eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010), won both the Kingsley Tufts Award from Claremont Graduate University and the Balcones Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships and awards from the NEA, the Artists Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A new book is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2026. She lives in Saratoga Springs and the Adirondacks.

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Payne: Join us Thursday, February 5, at 6:30 pm, to share your personal tattoo story. Come prepared with an anecdote, influence, or experience associated with your tattoo and engage with others around this unique art form. Inkscapes is a program of Inked: Stigma, Otherness, and Art, an online exhibition that explores cultural otherness and bodily agency through tattooing, curated by the Tang鈥檚 2024-25 Carole Marchand Intern Lauren Attwell 鈥�26.Tattoos engage identity, performance, and perception, and allow for both individuality and group belonging. At this event, we鈥檒l delve how this important form of self-expression can transform the body into a canvas.This event is free and open to the public.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: 微密圈 in Concert is a free, public series that showcases the excellence of our Music Department and celebrates the vibrancy of our shared artistic community. Vocal Chamber Ensemble will be directed by Floydd Ricketts. RSVP is encouraged! Presented by the 微密圈 Department of Music

TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, February 7, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.Family Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Thursday, February 12, at noon, for a tour of All These Growing Things. This tour will be led by Izzy DeSantis, the Kiki Pohlad 鈥�13 Curatorial Assistant.Following the tour, we invite visitors to enjoy the other Tang exhibitions on view, including Family Forms and Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest.

TANG Payne: 微密圈 students are invited to join us Thursday, February 12, at 6 pm, as the Tang Student Advisory Council hosts the annual celebration that welcomes 微密圈 students back to the museum for the spring semester that will feature music, crafts, and more.This event is free and open to all 微密圈 students.

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Case Center Skid Shop Table #1: Study Abroad Returnees! Come show some LOVE!Love Around the Globe: Tell us what made you fall in love with yoru time abroad postcard writing. Share advice or memories with future students.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect is an evolving group of exceptional young professional musicians, called 鈥渢he new face of classical music for New York鈥� by The New York Times. With virtuosity, versatility, and an irrepressible sense of adventure, they perform a vast repertoire that ranges from historic essentials to lesser-known pieces and brand-new commissions. Their 2025-2026 season kicks off at the Arthur Zankel Music Center with music by the singular Arvo P盲rt, joining in the worldwide celebration of the composer鈥檚 90th year. ProgramGEORGE LEWIS | New Work (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall) VALERIE COLEMAN | Portraits of Langston BARBER | Adagio for Strings JOPLIN | Selected rags for string quartet IVES | String Quartet No. 1, 鈥淔rom the Salvation Army鈥漇uiteTickets are required. There is no charge for admission to this event. To reserve tickets for a class or a group of 7 or more, please email zankel@skidmore.eduCo-sponsored by the Department of Music and Office of Special Programs. Made possible by the generous support of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation. Photo credit Fadi Kheir

TANG Atrium: Join us Saturday, February 14, at 5 pm, to celebrate the opening of Kathy Butterly: Assume Yes, a major retrospective of the artist鈥檚 work. Butterly will be in conversation with Dayton Director Ian Berry at 5 pm, followed by a reception at 5:30 pm celebrating all of our spring exhibitions: Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest, All These Growing Things, Family Forms, Hyde Cabinet #30: Analyze This, and Elevator Music 54: Hanna Tuulikki鈥攕pinning-in-stereo.

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ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: In the span of a decades-long career, Peruvian born guitarist and composer Jorge Caballero has accrued wide recognition as one of the most important guitarists in history, being the recipient of several international awards, and performing in recitals, chamber music and as a soloist around the world. Critics from international newspapers and guitar publications have praised Mr. Caballero鈥檚 depth of musicality, as well as his technical mastery when tackling the unique difficulties of his concert repertoire. Aside from the standard guitar literature he performs 鈥搘hich spans centuries of music from the Renaissance until the present, Mr. Caballero is notorious for adapting and performing masterworks originally written for piano or orchestra, among which we find Mussorgsky鈥檚 Pictures at an Exhibition, Dvorak鈥檚 New World Symphony, Debussy鈥檚 Children鈥檚 Corner Suite and Alban Berg鈥檚 Piano Sonata Op. 1 to name a few. One critic in Italy referred to Mr. Caballero as 鈥渟tanding on top of the repertoire鈥檚 Mount Everest,鈥� while the New York Times called him 鈥渁 masterly guitarist鈥� with 鈥渃hameleonic timbres.鈥� Presented by the 微密圈 Department of Music. Additional Info This event is pay-what-you-will鈥攚hile donations are optional, your contribution helps keep tickets accessible to all. Reserve up to 6 tickets per order. To request tickets for a class or group of 7 or more, please email Teresa Rockwell at trockwell@skidmore.edu.Student tickets are free, 微密圈 ID required at entry.

TANG Whitman: Join us Saturday, February 21, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.Family Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: LA native Michael Mayo is widely recognized for his extraordinary vocal range and clarity, moving seamlessly from a deep baritone to shimmering upper registers with ease. A graduate of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (now the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz), he was only the third vocalist accepted into the program鈥檚 history, studying under icons including Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Mayo鈥檚 second full-length album, Fly, received two 2026 Grammy Award nominations (Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best Jazz Performance for the song "Four".) Mayo鈥檚 versatility has made him a sought-after collaborator, recording and performing with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jacob Collier, Lenny Kravitz, Josh Groban, Scary Pockets, Ben Wendel, and The War and Treaty. He has toured internationally, leading his own band at renowned jazz clubs and festivals around the world, and captivating audiences with his inventive use of live vocal layering and dynamic, emotionally resonant performances. Presented by the 微密圈 Department of Music. Additional Info This event is pay-what-you-will鈥攚hile donations are optional, your contribution helps keep tickets accessible to all. Reserve up to 6 tickets per order. To request tickets for a class or group of 7 or more, please email Teresa Rockwell at trockwell@skidmore.edu. Student tickets are free, 微密圈 ID required at entry.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Chinese pipa master Gao Hong is internationally recognized for her dynamic stage presence and exceptional skill on the four-stringed Chinese lute. A genre-defying performer and composer, she seamlessly blends the traditional sounds of Chinese music with contemporary and global influences鈥攃rafting performances that are both deeply rooted and refreshingly innovative. Whether playing centuries-old repertoire or original compositions, Gao Hong鈥檚 music bridges cultures and generations, connecting audiences through the universal language of sound. Over the course of her career, Gao Hong has collaborated with musicians from around the world, including performances with jazz artists, bluegrass players, Syrian oud masters, and Senegalese kora virtuosos. Her performances range from meditative solo pieces to high-energy ensemble work, each infused with her infectious spirit and technical brilliance. In concert, she shares not only her music but also the stories behind the pipa and its traditions鈥攊nviting audiences into an intimate and engaging experience that transcends borders. The SURROUND series makes space for the quiet magic of listening together. Seated onstage around the artist as sunset fills our window wall, audiences experience music as a conversation鈥攊ntimate, unguarded, and resonant. See link for tickets and pricing. Tickets are free for 微密圈 students. Made possible by the Zankel Music Fund, the Alfred Z. Solomon Community Fund for Children, Youth, and the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, March 7, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.Family Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, March 14, at 2 pm, for a Collections Touch Tour, featuring a selection of artworks from the Tang Museum collection presented specifically for visitors who are blind or have low vision, and their companions. The guided experience will include verbal description, discussion, and tactile exploration of a selection of objects. The tour will highlight artistic approaches to figurative art, the expression of movement within sculpture, and the relationship between representational and abstract art.This tour will have limited capacity, so registration is required. Participants can register online (link available on the Tang's website), or by calling the Tang鈥檚 Visitors Services Desk at (518) 580-8080.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Payne: Join us for the ninth annual Winter/Miller Lecture on Wednesday, March 18, at 6 pm, featuring acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Christopher Myers. Myers is a visual artist, children鈥檚 book author and illustrator, textile artist, and has worked in both theater and film. Through his many mediums he answers, and asks questions, about how storytelling can change lives.The artist鈥檚 appearance at the Tang is by invitation from Elio Gottschalk 鈥�26, an art history major. They hold the prestigious 2025-26 Eleanor Linder Winter 鈥�43 Internship, a one-year pre-professional program in museum work for 微密圈 students. In this role, Gottschalk is charged with the research, planning, and coordination of the annual Winter/Miller Lecture.The Winter/Miller Lecture is made possible through a generous gift by the family of Eleanor Linder Winter 鈥�43. Past Winter/Miller lectures were delivered by: in Nicole Eisenman (inaugural, 2018); Chris Ware (2019); Wangechi Mutu (2020); Nick Cave (2021); Juliana Huxtable (2022); Trenton Doyle Hancock (2023); Mickalene Thomas (2024); and Nina Chanel Abney (2025).This event is free and open to the public.微密圈 Christopher MyersChristopher Myers (b. 1974, Queens, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist who tackles themes of globalization, oppression, and cultural exchange with emphasis on the importance of storytelling. Myers brings this focus on cultural exchange and globalization into his own practice by working with artisans from all over the world. Myers has worked in visual art, written and illustrated children鈥檚 books, and worked in theater in different capacities. Myers graduated from Brown in 1995 with a degree in Art-Semiotics and American Civilization. In 1996, he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio Program. Additionally, he received the Caldecott award for illustration for Harlem (1998), and a Coretta Scott King Honor for Jazz (2007). His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. He is working on a commission for the Brooklyn Brownsville Public Library.

TANG Whitman: Join us Saturday, March 21, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.Family Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Thursday, April 9, at noon, for a guided tour of the Tang鈥檚 outdoor sculptures, featuring works by Jonathan Seliger, George Rickey, and Hank Willis Thomas. The tour will be led by Rachel Seligman, the Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator.Following the tour, we invite visitors to enjoy the other Tang exhibitions on view, including Kathy Butterly: Assume Yes, Family Forms, All These Growing Things, Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest and Elevator Music 54: Hanna Tuulikki鈥攕pinning-in-stereo.

TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, April 11, at 2 pm, for a Family Saturday art-making program.Family Saturday programs foster multigenerational creative cooperation through looking at artwork, discussing it, and engaging in a hands-on art-making activity. Programs run from 2-3:30 pm and include a tour of selected works. All programs are free and open to the public, and suitable for children age 5 and older, accompanied by their adult companions. No registration required; supplies provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

TANG Payne: Join us Monday, April 13, at 4:30 pm, for a short K-Pop dance performance and celebration. Students in Visiting Artist-in-Residence Chia-Ying Kao鈥檚 Dance 317: K-Pop II course will perform as part of their semester鈥檚 final work.

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Tang Teaching Museum

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TPRK Barbecue Pit

TPRK Volleyball Court

TANG Tang Wedge (outside): Join us Friday, April 24, from 8-11 pm, for the annual Tang Party, a celebration of the funkiest and most innovative student creativity at 微密圈. Students from across disciplines create immersive and interactive installations, and put on performances on the grounds surrounding the Tang.Applications will be available in February; please visit the Tang's website for more details. If you have questions, contact Tang Party Coordinators Julia Hess juliahess@skidmore.edu and Elio Gottschalk emgottschalk@skidmore.edu.

TANG Rooftop

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum