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Vol. 5, No. 5 - March 31, 2006
| Tang Museum Celebrates Fifth Year with Conference about College Museums The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery will present a conference titled The College Museum: A Collision of Disciplines, a Laboratory of Perception Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8. The conference will explore the potential that college museums can have as sites for engaged inquiry and discovery, and will reassess their influence on their campuses, their surrounding communities, and the museum world. Open to the public by prior registration (by April 1, with a $75 fee), the conference will bring noted artists, museum directors, curators, art scholars, and academics to the Tang, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Topics of discussion will include the role of college faculty as curators; the college museum as a means to effectively teach a wide array of academic disciplines; the rich possibilities for performing arts within the museum; and the museum's potential reach into the community and the wider art world. Among those participating in panels and workshops will be renowned artists Fred Wilson, Janet Cardiff, and George Bures Miller; Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Jock Reynolds of the Yale University Art Gallery; art scholar Ivan Karp; and museum consultant Elaine Heumann Gurian. The conference represents the culmination of the internationally acclaimed Fred Wilson's three-year fellowship at the Tang, supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. At the core of the program is the faculty seminar, in which faculty members from across the disciplines refine their ability to use the museum as a site that provokes critical and engaged learning. A site-specific theater performance created in response to the current Tang exhibition, And Therefore I Am will be presented at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 7, in Bernhard Theater, as part of the conference, and a public reception beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 8, will celebrate all three of the museum's spring shows. For more information or to register for The College Museum, call the Tang Museum at 518-580-8080 or go to hudson2.skidmore.edu/tang. The Tang Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; the museum is closed Mondays and major holidays. Admission is free; donations are suggested.
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