Tang Museum honored
Skidmore's Tang Museum has earned two publications awards from the American Alliance of Museums. Everything is Connected, documenting the history of the Tang, won for innovation in print design, and A Teaching Museum is... won for press and marketing materials.
Everything is Connected cover
The Everything is Connected award marks the Tang's eighth AAM win in the books category. Other museums receiving 2016 innovation awards include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State.
A Teaching Museum is..., a 36-page viewbook, took first prize in the Press Kits, Marketing, and Public Relations Materials category. Second place went to the Smithsonian’s National Museums of Asian Art.
A spread in the innovative Tang viewbook
"These awards are such a tremendous honor, especially considering the great institutions we were competing against," said the Tang's Dayton Director Ian Berry. He cited the contributions of all Tang staff along with the designers, photographers, and writers, as well as "faculty, students, and alumni who contributed to these great publications." Trustee and Tang advisor Barbara Kahn Moller '78, for example, wrote Everything is Connected, while A Teaching Museum is... has testimonials from faculty, artists, students, and alumni about the Tang's impact on their lives.
Since its opening in 2000, the Tang has now won 10 AAM publication awards.
