SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has revamped its website to showcase the museums growing collection of drawings, paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, and more.
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site at offers visitors access to more than 1,100 high-resolution images of artwork. These works are also organized in collections, groupings of works by artist, theme, or a specific Skidmore class. Visitors can also explore stories about the artworks through new scholarship by faculty, staff, students, and guests; creative responses to the collection through music, dance, and new visual art; and video interviews with artists.
Tang staff members Annelise Kelly, Online Content Coordinator, and Rebecca McNamara, Mellon Collections Curator, were led by Dayton Director Ian Berry in collaborating with Linked by Air, a New York City-based firm, to design and launch the new collection site. The site expands upon the Tang website that Linked by Air designed in 2015. Linked by Air is run by the principals Dan Michaelson and Tamara Maletic, with Christopher Roeleveld as the Tang websites lead designer and Alison Abreu-Garcia, the lead developer.
The Tang collection has been a great catalyst for ideas, conversation, and learning, and our new site means more people can access it than ever before, Berry said. We operate the museum as a laboratory of ideas, and this expands that mission by giving space for multiple voices to bring fresh perspectives on the objects in our care. What is online now is just the beginning, as we continue to add objects from the collection to the site and they generate new ideas and responses.
Those responses include artists such as Njideka Akunyili Crosby speaking about the influence of the photographs of Malick Sidibé on her artwork and Tim Rollins and K.O.S. speaking about their work Winterreise (songs XX-XXIV) (after Schubert); scholars such as Skidmore College Professor of Political Science Beau Breslin speaking about Kate Ericson and Mel Zieglers Constitution on Tour and Silvia Forni, Royal Ontario Museum Curator of Anthropology in the Department of World Cultures, on Asafo flags from Ghana; and students such as Sophie Heath 18, a Classics major, on Fred Wilsons Pharaoh Fetish.
Responses also include innovative and creative forms, such as an African music and dance performance inspired by Malian artist Abdoulaye Konatés Métamorphose de papillon and a new woodblock print created by Atlan Arceo-Witzl 18, a studio art major, inspired by the work of Self Help Graphics & Art, a community arts center in East Los Angeles, California.