TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, September 12, 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 Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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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PALMTN Gannett Auditorium: Audrey Choi is chair of the Generation Foundation and a pioneer in the fields of corporate sustainability and sustainable finance. Her career has spanned the highest levels of finance, government and journalism as an officer at Morgan Stanley, as chief of staff of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors and as bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal.Choi was the first ever chief sustainability officer on Wall Street. She also served as chief marketing officer (CMO) and was a member of Morgan Stanley’s Global Management Committee. During her tenure as CMO, she is credited with stewarding the favorability of the venerable financial services brand to all-time highs across all global markets.An early advocate for sustainable investing, she proposed and founded the institution’s Global Sustainable Finance Group and the Institute for Sustainable Investing. She also founded and led its Community Development Finance Group, investing more than $20 billion to strengthen low-income communities.Choi graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School. She was a White House Fellow, Fulbright Scholar and David Rockefeller Fellow. A first-generation Korean American, she is fluent in French and German.

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PALMTN Davis Auditorium: Wednesday, September 16Palamountain HallDavis AuditoriumREFRESHMENTS 4:15TALK 4:30-5:30Adapting in the Age of IntelligentMachines: Toward CircularComputing for Sustainable SocietyTAHIYA CHOWDHURYASSISTANT PROFESSOR of COMPUTER SCIENCE AND AICOLBY COLLEGE

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join Adam Tinkle, Associate Professor and Director of MDOCS, on Thursday, September 17, at noon, for a tour of his co-curated exhibition Elevator Music 55: Chaia—Yiddishland on the Move. Following the tour, we invite visitors to enjoy the Tang exhibitions on view, including Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation, A Feeling of With, and Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest. This tour is free and open to the public.

PALMTN Gannett Auditorium: The Fox-Adler Lecture committee would like to share that on September 17 at 5:30 PM in Gannett Auditorium, book artist and print maker Tia Blassingame will present "Printing History & Imagining Futures: Race, Memory, and Meaning at Primrose Press." Blassingame, a professor at Scripps College, will reflect on her work as proprietor of Primrose Press, exploring how printmaking and book arts can promote discussion of issues of race, racism, memory, and history. Drawing on recent artist’s book projects such as African American: A Handbook, White: A Handbook, and The Benefits of Slavery, she will examine how material form, typography, and process reveal hidden narratives that encourage questioning of inherited assumptions. Blassingame considers the printing press as both witness and tool and will trace how ink carries histories forward while opening space to imagine more just and expansive futures. She invites the audience to consider how the pages of an artist’s book record histories, carry memory, and open space for reflection.

TANG Atrium: Stop in by the Tang on Thursday, September 17, from 5-8 pm, to register to vote! Volunteers with the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County will help register new voters in New York State, provide absentee ballots, and answer any questions.This event is co-organized by exhibiting artist Mark Thomas Gibson and the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County as part of Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation. The Voter Registration Drive is free and open to the public.

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TANG Payne: Join us Thursday, September 17, at 7 pm, to learn about and celebrate ROOM•MATE: Living with Tang Art. The Tang’s art loan program, which began in 2020, invites Skidmore students to borrow artwork from the Tang collection to hang in their dorm room or apartment. Come learn about ROOM•MATE and preview the 100 artworks that students (perhaps you!) will take home Saturday, September 19. All students interested in participating in ROOM•MATE should attend. Learn more about the art loan pickup day on Saturday, September 19, 2026. This event is free and open to the public.

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TANG Atrium: Today’s the day! Students are encouraged to line up early for an opportunity to take home one of the 100 works that are part of ROOM•MATE: Living with Tang Art, the Tang’s art loan program. Works will be taken home on a first-come first-served basis. Skidmore students will be allowed to make their selections when the doors open at 9 am, though we suggest lining up early for a good spot in line. (In 2025, the line was full by 7:30 am, though students began lining up the afternoon before.) In order to ensure your spot, once you line up you may not leave your place for longer than five minutes. Students must bring their Skidmore IDs with them in order to borrow artwork. This event is free and open to Skidmore students.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) brings new life to old songs. Led by multi-GRAMMY Award-winning guitarist and vocalist Clay Ross, the ensemble binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, and East Asian ornamentation. A southern-born roots music aficionado, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist, Moto Fukushima, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist, and Rudy Royston, a renowned jazz drummer whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. Together, they approach American roots music as a living practice: something carried, questioned, transformed, and passed on. Their GRAMMY-nominated self-titled debut album reveals the United States as a place of overlapping histories and evolving traditions, where folk songs become vessels for memory and migration, struggle and hope. In APQ’s hands, familiar melodies open into new textures and unexpected connections, inviting audiences to hear American music as a shared but unfinished story. About the Artists: Clay Ross is a 2x Grammy Award-winning artist and the founder of the Billboard chart-topping band Ranky Tanky. A native of South Carolina, Ross moved to NYC in 2002 and has since collaborated with artists as diverse as Gregory Porter, Snarky Puppy, and Bobby McFerrin. Winning multiple grants through the U.S. State Department, he has toured worldwide as a Cultural Ambassador. Rudy Royston, a Texas-born, Colorado-bred drummer and educator, is known for his dynamic percussion skills honed over three decades. His career, deeply influenced by the celebrated late trumpeter Ron Miles, has seen him explore various genres. Since obtaining a Masters in Music from Rutgers University and relocating to New Jersey in 2006, Royston has collaborated with jazz icons like Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, and Ravi Coltrane. His dedication to music propels him to continually expand his horizons. Falu (Faluguni Shah) is a GRAMMY Award-winning artist acclaimed for her innovative fusion of modern styles with classical Indian vocal traditions. She has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Wyclef Jean, Philip Glass, Ricky Martin, Blues Traveler, and A.R. Rahman. Notably, Falu performed at the world's largest stadium before 132,000 attendees, an event broadcast to billions globally. She has graced the GRAMMYs pre-telecast ceremony, entertained President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House, and was the featured performer at the Time 100 Gala in 2009. Since 2006, Falu has served as Carnegie Hall's ambassador of Indian music. Moto Fukushima, bassist and Grammy-nominated co-leader of House of Waters, blends Western classical, traditional Japanese, and South American music into unique jazz compositions. A Berklee alumnus, he has worked with artists like Mike Stern and Dave Weckl. House of Waters' albums have topped iTunes charts, and Moto has earned accolades like the Sports Emmy and ASCAP Plus Award. Currently based in NYC, his talents continue to resonate globally. Presented by the Arthur Zankel Music Center. Made possible by the Zankel Music Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the Alfred Z. Solomon Community Fund for Children, Youth, and the Arts. Additional Info This event offers two ways to attend: a standard General Admission ticket at $25 plus fees, or Pay-What-You-Will admission for patrons who would like to choose their own price. Paying at the suggested level, or above it when possible, helps support our programming and keeps concerts at Zankel accessible to students, families, and community members. Skidmore students, faculty, and staff can access free or discounted tickets by using the Single Sign On option. Tickets are free for children 18 and under.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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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Bolton Hall Bolton 103: Interested in studying off campus in France next semester or next year? Join OCSE staff and Skidmore in France alums for an information meeting to learn more about spending your fall, spring or full academic year in Montpellier in southern France! Study French language and culture, business, or psychology. There are program options for students with advanced French language skills as well as options for students with little to no background in French. If you are unable to attend but want more information, please stop by the OCSE office or schedule an appointment.

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PALMTN Emerson Auditorium: Peter Kunze presents:Part of Your World?: Disney, Disability, and the Industrial Politics of Inclusion This presentation considers the intersections of film history, media industry studies, and disability studies. How do Hollywood structures regulate the types of bodies – and therefore the types of creators – who can participate in media production? And how might these structures adapt to accommodate anomalous bodies to create more inclusive and accessible production contexts? In 1988, during the production of The Little Mermaid, lyricist and producer Howard Ashman was diagnosed HIV positive. Rather than firing him, the Walt Disney Company adapted the production culture of Beauty and the Beast to allow Ashman to rest and receive treatment in New York City. What emerged was an accommodating bicoastal production scenario: animators in California and Florida, and Ashman working in and from New York. Above-the-line folks would travel in-between to accommodate Ashman's treatment in NYC. Fax machines and recordings facilitated the rest. This adapted production reveals Disney's willingness (and self-interest) in accommodating Ashman during the HIV/AIDS crisis as well as Disney's behind-the-scenes support of LGBT employees countering public reticence to address HIV/AIDS or even LGBT issues. (This shifts a bit in the mid-90s when Eisner/Disney starts offering partner benefits to entice hires.) It also reveals how structures can enable “disabled” creators, but that such adaptations are political: privileged, limited, temporary. Therefore, I draw upon archival research, oral histories, and textual analysis to demonstrate how disability studies might lead to a reassessment and reorientation within both media industry studies and film history, one that considers embodiment, affect, and lived experience as central to how media is produced.

TANG Payne: Join us Thursday, September 24, at 6 pm, for a Dunkerley Dialogue with artist Ruben Olguin, whose work with the Survival Kit Collective appears in 500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs, and Tarah Rowse, Director of Sustainability and Environmental Initiatives at Skidmore College. The discussion will give insights into the exhibition, which opens two days later in the Winter Gallery.Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines, and can spark new ideas for all participants. Dunkerley Dialogues are made possible by a generous gift from Michele Dunkerley ’80. This event is free and open to the public. About the SpeakersRuben Olguin is a New Mexico-based artist and educator whose work explores how land and culture are affected by technology. He works in a variety of media, including ceramics, adobe, sound, and electronic media. Drawing from his mixed Indigenous American and Spanish heritage, he uses traditional hand processes and materials alongside modern elements. He divides his time between the computer lab and the desert, aspiring to create and teach media art through socially engaged practices. He earned his BA in media arts from the University of New Mexico and went on to receive an MFA in electronic arts. Olguin has intertwined STEAM-based learning and earthen electronic media to create community-involved projects. In 2019, he received the Fulcrum Grant, which brought community-based art into the Barelas neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work has also appeared at the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, the Paseo Festival in Taos, the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire, Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico.He has taught at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, and Florida SouthWestern State College and is currently an assistant professor of art at Northern New Mexico College.Tarah Rowse is an energy and sustainability professional who has worked across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors as a researcher, professor, and manager. Rowse holds a PhD in natural resources, with a focus on energy governance, from the University of Vermont; an MS in public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University; and a BS in natural resource management from Cornell University. She has served as a Peace Corps volunteer, political campaign manager, and associate with The Nature Conservancy, and has previous campus sustainability experience at the University of Vermont and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Rowse is a former board chair of the Agricultural Stewardship Association, a regional land trust that conserves farm and forest land. She, her husband, and their two daughters returned to the area and built a net-zero-energy home on the family farm. She is Skidmore’s director of sustainability and environmental initiatives.

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ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Billy Hart is one of jazz’s great living drummers: a bandleader, educator, and master collaborator whose career spans more than six decades. A 2022 NEA Jazz Master, Hart has helped shape the sound of modern jazz through landmark work with Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Quest, and many others. He also appears on Miles Davis’s On the Corner, placing him in the lineage of some of the music’s most transformative recordings. Hart’s discography includes more than 600 recordings as a leader and sideman. His life in music is also the subject of Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart, as told to longtime collaborator Ethan Iverson. His current Billy Hart Quartet—with saxophonist Mark Turner, pianist Ethan Iverson, and bassist Ben Street—has released three acclaimed albums on ECM Records. Presented by the Skidmore College Department of Music. Ticketing Info This event offers two ways to attend: a standard General Admission ticket at $25 plus fees, or Pay-What-You-Will admission for patrons who would like to choose their own price. Paying at the suggested level, or above it when possible, helps support our programming and keeps concerts at Zankel accessible to students, families, and community members. Skidmore students, faculty, and staff can access free or discounted tickets by using the Single Sign On option. Tickets are free for children 18 and under.

TANG Payne: Join us Saturday, September 26, 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 Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Grammy-nominated and NAACP Image Award–winning vocalist, composer, writer, and performer Somi opens Zankel’s Well-Being Concert series with an uplifting and deeply expressive performance shaped by jazz, soul, African musical traditions, and story-based songwriting. Hosted by Teisha Duncan, this intimate concert combines live performance with simple guided restorative practices such as breathing, mindfulness, and deep listening, in an immersive, nurturing space. Audience members will be seated onstage with the performers, and can choose from a variety of casual and comfortable seating options, with mats, cushions, and chairs all available on a first-come, first-served basis. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed—only a willingness to listen, breathe, and be present.About Well-Being ConcertsWell-Being Concerts combine live music with explorations of mindfulness, self-care, and communal connection. Each concert is designed as a restorative listening experience, offering audiences the chance to slow down, be present, and experience music as a source of well-being.The Skidmore series is being developed in collaboration with partners in our community, including Wellspring and the Saratoga County District Attorney’s Office. Together, the partners will help shape restorative practices and connect the concerts with people who may benefit from them. A portion of the available space for each performance will be reserved for community members invited through these partnerships.About the ArtistsVocalist, composer, actor, and playwright Somi Kakoma is the Midwestern daughter of immigrants from Uganda and Rwanda. Hailed by The New York Times as “a virtuosic performer in full command of her instrument and powers,” she is known in the international jazz world simply as ‘Somi’. Her 2021Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album made her the first African woman ever nominated in any of the Grammy jazz categories, as well as the first Rwandan or Ugandan ever nominated for a Grammy. Her last release, Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba, was a companion project to the critically acclaimed original musical “Dreaming Zenzile” that Somi also wrote and starred in Off-Broadway as a tribute to the great South African singer and activist. Her highly anticipated forthcoming album, What Does It Take to Bloom?, will be released in August 2026.Somi is a recipient of two NAACP Image Awards and a Doris Duke Artist Award. She is also a Soros Equality Fellow, United States Artist Fellow, TED Senior Fellow, Sundance Theatre Fellow, and the founder of Salon Africana – a boutique cultural agency and record label. Recently, Somi made her Broadway debut in the titular role of the TONY Award winning play “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”.She holds degrees in Cultural Anthropology and African Studies from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, and a PhD in Critical Inquiry & Creative Practice from Harvard University. In her heart of hearts, sheloves family, poetry, and freedom.Teisha Duncan is an actress, educator, director, and performative scholar whose work moves fluidly between stage performance, classroom practice, and creative research. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence teaching acting in Skidmore' College's Theater Department. Her interests span storytelling, mask work, puppetry, Caribbean theatre, Black African performance traditions, and Egyptian mythology. As a performer, she has appeared in productions including Disney’s The Lion King, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Color Purple, Sarafina!, Tartuffe, and The Bluest Eye, among many others. Her directing and movement work includes plays, musicals, and Intimacy Direction, reflecting a wide-ranging practice dedicated to story, embodiment, and the cultural forms that shape performance.Presented by the Arthur Zankel Music Center in partnership with Skidmore Health and Wellness and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. Made possible by the Office of Special Programs/ McCormack Fund and the Zankel Music Fund. Ad sponsorship provided by The Metroland.

PALMTN Davis Auditorium: In his talk, John Cassidy will be reflecting on the main themes of his book and how it came to be written. He will be arguing that a number of old debates around capitalism have returned to the fore – mainly around class conflict, distributive justice, elite control and technological preponderance. In short, the lessons of political economy remain as relevant as ever before, albeit in a different cadence.BIO FOR JOHN CASSIDY John Cassidy is a reputed British-American journalist and popular economic historian who is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University, a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and a Masters degree in economics from New York University. Cassidy is best known for his articles and books on economic history, market forces and the underside of capitalism. Two of his award-winning best-sellers are Dot.Com: How America Lost its Mind and Money in the Internet Era and How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (which was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in non-fiction). His latest book, Capitalism and its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI is a monumental piece of research mapping the evolution of global capitalism through the lives and ideas of its critics and commentators from 1760 to the present day.

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PALMTN Davis Auditorium: Ryan Overbey (Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies) will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Premodern Colloquium. Prof. Overbey's talk is titled "Theorizing Buddhist Revelation in a Sixth-Century Magical Text," and it is drawn from his first monograph, The Vaults of Buddhas: Prototantric Preachers and Rituals of Represencing in the Great Lamp of the Dharma Dhāraṇī Scripture (out now with SUNY press). NOTE: Prof. Overbey's talk will begin at 4:30 (rather than at 4:00, as is listed above).

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Friday, October 2, at 4 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions with a Tang Guide. This event is open to the public and is organized for Skidmore’s Homecoming and Family Weekend. Weekly tours are given by Tang Guides, many of whom are Skidmore 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.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: The 2026 Filene Scholar Celebration Concert features the winners of the 45th Annual Filene Scholarship Competition, alongside our current Filene Scholars and faculty artists. Established through the generosity of the Filene Ladd families, this prestigious merit scholarship recognizes exceptional young musicians, providing them with support for private lessons and the freedom to pursue any major while continuing to perform at a high level. We celebrate the Filene Scholars for the ways they enrich Skidmore’s musical life, contributing to a vibrant community of student–musicians through performances, ensembles, and collaborations across campus.Filene Scholars Class of 2030Gina LeBeau, voiceLily Maynard, voiceJacob Miller, celloOliver Wyman, french hornPresented by the Department of Music made possible by the support of the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation.This event is free and open to the public, no ticket required. RSVP is encouraged.

TANG Atrium: Join us on Saturday, October 3, between noon and 4 pm for our Homecoming and Family Weekend Open House. Visit all our exhibitions, including: A Feeling of With, a faculty co-curated exhibition featuring work from the Tang collection Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation, a solo exhibition from the self-described American history painter Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest, an immersive installation that draws on Pepe’s ongoing interest in the material culture of religion, sociology, queer theory, ancient Greece and Rome, and the Silk Road 500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs, which brings together art and science to create a portrait of the ongoing effort of the Survival Kit Collective to regenerate the grasslands of Anaya Springs, New Mexico Elevator Music 55: Chaia—Yiddishland on the Move, an immersive sound collage composed from newly digitized recordings from the 1950s–1980s in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s Jewish Labor and Political Archives Light refreshments will be available during the open house. This open house is free and open to the public.

Case Center Case North Patio: From 8:45 PM until the end of the fireworks show, grab a cup of hot chocolate and one of Dining Service's famous chocolate chip cookies to enjoy with the spectacle!Fireworks display expected to begin ~9:15 PM.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

CO Calendar Only : If you are fans of classical myth and modern dance, or if you want to learn more about how these disciplines can intertwine, please mark your calendars for the week of October 5. During this week, Classics and Dance will present two interdisciplinary events about and inspired by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894–1991), whose repertory based on Greco-Roman myth continues to delight and fascinate.Our first event is a presentation/demonstration of the Martha Graham technique and contemporary dance-making, led by Dance faculty Bo Brinton (Visiting Assistant Professor) and Emily Gunter (Assistant Lecturer, and Classics/Dance ’19). Our speaker on Wednesday, Ronnie Ancona, will also be in attendance. All members of the community are invited.

PALMTN Gannett Auditorium: What did it mean to be "modern" in a rapidly changing Eurasian empire? This question has animated the research of Greenberg Middle East Scholar-in-Residence Professor Avi Rubin and Skidmore’s Associate Professor Murat C. Yildiz. While Rubin has examined these shifts through the lens of legal reform and bureaucratic halls, Yildiz has explored them in sports clubs and the city’s public spaces. This public conversation brings together Rubin and Yıldız to discuss two ends of the late Ottoman experience: the state’s effort to institutionalize justice and order through law, and society’s aspiration to forge a new "body" and identity through bodily culture and leisure. Together, Rubin and Yildiz will explore why (Ottoman) history matters when thinking about the present Middle East and explore how Ottomans did not merely adopt foreign models but instead crafted a distinct local modernity of their own whose legacies continue to live in today.Avi Rubin earned his Ph.D. in History and Middle East Studies from Harvard University (2006) before becoming a faculty member in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. A specialist in the socio-legal history of the late Ottoman Empire, Rubin has published extensively on legal change in the modern era, exploring themes such as codification, legal culture, political trials, and the rule of law. His first monograph, Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity (2011), is a pioneering, "law-in-action" study that revised our understanding of nineteenth-century Ottoman legal reform. His second book, Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: The Yildiz Case (2018), examines the emergence of a new culture of legalism during the late Ottoman period. Building on this trajectory, his current research explores the legalist foundations of modern Turkish autocracy by tracing the continuities between the Hamidian regime and the early Republic. Murat C. Yildiz is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Skidmore College. He is author of The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul (University of Texas Press, 2026). He serves as Assistant Editor of Arab Studies Journal and as an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of the History of Sport.

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CO Calendar Only : If you are fans of classical myth and modern dance, or if you want to learn more about how these disciplines can intertwine, please mark your calendars for the week of October 5. During this week, Classics and Dance will present two interdisciplinary events about and inspired by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894–1991), whose repertory based on Greco-Roman myth continues to delight and fascinate.Our second event is a lecture by Ronnie Ancona (Professor of Classics emerita, CUNY Hunter) based on her new book Martha Graham’s Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi (Oxford 2026). Ancona will discuss Noguchi’s and Graham’s visual-performative collaboration, with an eye toward how her bold and woman-centered receptions of Greek myth emerged over time.

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

TANG Payne: Join us on Wednesday, October 14, at 5:30 pm, for a discussion with acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz, Skidmore’s 2026 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence, about her latest full-length dance work, Pastoral. Alongside two of her collaborators, artist Sarah Crowner and artistic director Gideon Lester, Tanowitz will provide a look into the creative process that shaped this piece. April Bernard, Professor of English, will join the panel discussion, which will be moderated by Brian Lawson, Assistant Professor of Dance. Pastoral, which features a score by composer Caroline Shaw, premiered in the summer of 2025 at Bard College, and used Beethoven’s 6th Symphony as a springboard for multidisciplinary creation. This event is part of Tanowitz’s 2026 McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency at Skidmore, and is free and open to the public. About the ParticipantsPam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York–based choreographer and founder of Pam Tanowitz Dance who has steadily delineated her own dance language through decades of research and creation. She is the first-ever choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is an assistant professor of professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Other honors include the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, LMCC Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, Doris Duke Artist Award, Herb Alpert Award, BAC Cage Cunningham Fellowship, and Bessie Awards, among others. She has created works for The Australian Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, The Royal Ballet, Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America, Vail Dance Festival, Juilliard Dance, Ballet Austin, and New York Theatre Ballet. Originally from New Rochelle, New York, Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College. Brooklyn–based artist Sarah Crowner’s diverse practice explores the spaces where geometry abuts gesture, materiality merges with composition, and the graphic confronts the handmade. Incorporating two- and three-dimensional works across a variety of media (painting, sculpture, installation, and set design), Crowner’s work points to an expanded field of painting, investigating the relationship between the element and the whole, and how parts build an entirety. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Contemporary Austin; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent exhibitions and installations include Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan, The Bass Museum, Miami (2025–26); Platform as Platform, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2025); and Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2023–24).Gideon Lester is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Fisher Center at Bard, and Senior Curator at the Open Society University Network’s Center for the Arts and Human Rights. A Tony- and Olivier Award–winning creative producer, festival director, and dramaturg, he has collaborated with and commissioned a broad range of American and international artists across disciplines, including Romeo Castellucci, Justin Vivian Bond, Tania El Khoury, Brice Marden, Sarah Michelson, Claudia Rankine, Kaija Saariaho, Peter Sellars, and Anna Deavere Smith. Recent projects include the world premiere of Justin Peck and Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise; Common Ground, an international festival on the politics of land and food; Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! (Tony Award; Olivier Award); and Pam Tanowitz’s Four Quartets and Song of Songs.April Bernard’s 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 shortlisted 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 Skidmore College and is currently at work on a volume of new and selected poems. Brian Lawson, Assistant Professor of Dance at Skidmore, is a dance performer and educator. He graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in dance performance from SUNY Purchase in 2010. Lawson performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance before joining the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2011. With MMDG, he originated numerous roles and had the pleasure of touring the US and the world performing Morris’s dances. He earned his MFA in Dance from the University of Washington in 2020 and began teaching at Skidmore in 2022. His choreographic research is collaborative in nature and focuses on queerness in concert dance. He also engages in pedagogical research with regard to contemporary balletic practices. He continues to research via performance as a dancer with Pam Tanowitz Dance and MMDG. Lawson enjoys teaching dance to diverse populations and has given master classes at Purchase College, NYU Tisch, and the American Dance Festival, among others. He acts as a guest ballet teacher for the José Limón Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Gibney Dance. About The McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar ResidencyThe McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency exemplifies Skidmore’s commitment to experiential learning, close faculty-student collaboration, and interdisciplinary exploration. The residency is a signature academic program that brings internationally recognized artists and scholars to Skidmore College for an intensive, week-long residency during the academic year. It is designed as a total-immersion experience that embeds the visiting artist directly into the academic and creative life of the College, with sustained focus on student learning and faculty collaboration.McCormack Residents represent the highest levels of artistic achievement across visual, performing, and literary arts, including recipients of major honors such as the MacArthur Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Grammy Award, Tony Award, and Nobel Prize in Literature. Through classroom engagement, studio practice, mentorship, and public scholarship, the McCormack Residency advances Skidmore’s mission by uniting theory and practice and modeling interdisciplinary inquiry within a liberal arts context. The residency is presented by Skidmore’s Office of Special Programs, in partnership with the Dance Department for the 2026 residency.

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ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: With a sound The New Yorker describes as “part Snow White communing with the birds, part haunted theremin,” Molly Lewis has made the human whistle a distinctive contemporary musical voice. Millions heard her in Barbie, where she whistles the melody of Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” during a pivotal scene and over the film’s closing credits. In 2026, the Metropolitan Museum of Art featured newly commissioned footage of Lewis in Musical Bodies, an exhibition tracing the relationship between music and the human body across 4,000 years.Born in Sydney, Australia, Lewis grew up whistling, and eventually pursued it as a career. After her parents showed her the documentary Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling, she entered her first whistling competition, the 2012 International Whistlers Convention in North Carolina. She later won first place in the Live Band Accompaniment Division at 2015’s Masters of Musical Whistling competition in Los Angeles. Her debut EP The Forgotten Edge was released in 2021 on Jagjaguwar, after the label saw her lounge show Café Molly in LA. A second EP, Mirage, followed in 2022 and her debut LP On the Lips was released in 2024, which she promoted by playing headline shows all over the world, as well as supporting Weyes Blood and Beck on his symphony tour. She is currently co-starring in a new documentary, Whistle, which has been making the rounds of film festivals across the globe after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.Lewis brings her singular artistry to the Skidmore Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Georgia Mills, with arrangements by Icelandic composer Thomas Stankiewicz. The program places the whistle in the role of orchestral soloist through beloved melodies from Delibes’s Lakmé, Saint-Saëns’s The Swan, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande, and Mozart’s famously virtuosic “Queen of the Night” aria, alongside Lewis’s own Oceanic Feeling and Miracle Fruit. The Skidmore Orchestra also takes the spotlight in “Carillon,” “Pastorale,” and “Farandole” from Georges Bizet’s L’Arlésienne.

TANG Atrium: Join us Saturday, October 17, at 5 pm, for a celebration of our fall exhibitions: A Feeling of With, a faculty co-curated exhibition featuring work from the Tang collection Mark Thomas Gibson: We Are A Constellation, a solo exhibition from the self-described American history painter Sheila Pepe: When & Where We Rest, an immersive installation that draws on Pepe’s ongoing interest in the material culture of religion, sociology, queer theory, ancient Greece and Rome, and the Silk Road 500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs, which brings together art and science to create a portrait of the ongoing effort of the Survival Kit Collective to regenerate the grasslands of Anaya Springs, New Mexico Elevator Music 55: Chaia—Yiddishland on the Move, an immersive sound collage composed from newly digitized recordings from the 1950s–1980s in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s Jewish Labor and Political Archives This open house is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Molly Lewis brings Café Molly—her traveling lounge concept—to the Zankel stage for an evening with her five-piece band. Drawn from On the Lips and other original work, the set pairs Lewis’s precise, expressive whistle with lush arrangements, jazz-inflected grooves, and the elegance and intrigue of mid-century lounge and film music. It’s stylish, cinematic, and a little surreal: a fully realized musical setting built around Lewis’s most unmistakable instrument.About the ArtistWith a sound The New Yorker describes as “part Snow White communing with the birds, part haunted theremin,” Molly Lewis has made the human whistle a distinctive contemporary musical voice. Millions heard her in Barbie, where she whistles the melody of Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” during a pivotal scene and over the film’s closing credits. In 2026, the Metropolitan Museum of Art featured newly commissioned footage of Lewis in Musical Bodies, an exhibition tracing the relationship between music and the human body across 4,000 years.Born in Sydney, Australia, Lewis grew up whistling, and eventually pursued it as a career. After her parents showed her the documentary Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling, she entered her first whistling competition, the 2012 International Whistlers Convention in North Carolina. She later won first place in the Live Band Accompaniment Division at 2015’s Masters of Musical Whistling competition in Los Angeles. Her debut EP The Forgotten Edge was released in 2021 on Jagjaguwar, after the label saw her lounge show Café Molly in LA. A second EP, Mirage, followed in 2022 and her debut LP On the Lips was released in 2024, which she promoted by playing headline shows all over the world, as well as supporting Weyes Blood and Beck on his symphony tour. She is currently co-starring in a new documentary, Whistle, which has been making the rounds of film festivals across the globe after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.Molly Lewis’s Skidmore residency began in The Artist-Centered Approach, an Arts Administration course taught by Zankel Director Zhenelle LeBel, that asks students to imagine presenting practices built around artists’ creative identities, needs, and ambitions. For her final project, student Grace Higginbotham developed a proposal for an engagement with Lewis, which her classmates ultimately selected to move forward. Zankel then worked directly with Lewis to grow that student-generated idea into a weeklong residency shaped around her artistry, including performances with the Skidmore Orchestra and her own band. This October, Grace will return to Skidmore as a recent graduate to support Lewis during the residency—giving her the unusual opportunity to see an idea developed in the classroom become a professional artistic engagement and to take part in realizing it firsthand.Presented by the Arthur Zankel Music Center in partnership with the Skidmore Department of Music. Made possible by the Zankel Music Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the family of Elisabeth Luce Moore.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

ZANKEL Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall: Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing, or xöömei, a vocal tradition in which a singer can produce multiple pitches at the same time. Trained in Tuvan music since childhood, the members of Alash bring deep knowledge of traditional instruments, song forms, and vocal techniques to performances that are both rooted and contemporary.What sets Alash apart is their careful integration of modern influences into traditional Tuvan music. Their songs may include complex harmonies, Western instruments, or contemporary forms, but the sound and spirit remain distinctly Tuvan. The ensemble has won major international throat-singing competitions and has toured widely in the United States, where The Washington Post called their music “utterly stunning."Alash has collaborated with artists across genres, from the Sun Ra Arkestra to Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, appearing on the Grammy-winning album Jingle All the Way. Beyond the stage, the ensemble is committed to teaching and cultural exchange, introducing audiences and students of all ages to the music, instruments, and traditions of Tuva.About the ArtistsBady-Dorzhu Ondar performs vocals, igil, guitar, and bayan. A graduate of Kyzyl Arts College and the East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art, he has received major honors in traditional ensemble and xöömei competitions and was named People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2007.Ayan-ool Sam performs vocals, doshpuluur, igil, and xomus. He studied at the Republic School of the Arts, Kyzyl Arts College, and Moscow State Pedagogical University. He won first prize at the 2008 International Xöömei Symposium and was named People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2015.Ayan Shirizhik performs vocals, kengirge, shyngyrash, shoor, and xomus. A graduate of Kyzyl Arts College and the East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art, he was named a Distinguished Artist of Tuva in 2009 and People’s Xöömeizhi of Tuva in 2021.Presented by the Skidmore College Department of Music.

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TANG Wachenheim Gallery: Kuroda Symposium in Early American Politics and CultureDanielle Allen will deliver a public lecture October 23rd at 5:00PM in the Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Museum Danielle Allen is a political philosopher whose current research focuses on democracy renovation: how to reconnect citizens to civic power through education and institutional redesign, how to make political institutions more responsive, accountable, and participatory, and how to make public policy that supports democracy. Professor Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University Her most recent book, Justice by Means of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2023), provides the theoretical foundation for this work. Her forthcoming book, The Radical Duke, a biography of an 18th-century British political reformer, is due out with Liveright/Norton in 2026. Through the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, she leads applied research on electoral reform, civic infrastructure, institutional design, and democracy-supportive public policy. Through the Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she develops and scales civic education curricula for preK-12 students and higher education. She is the publisher and founder of The Renovator Substack and a contributing columnist at The Atlantic Magazine.

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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 us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

Palamountain Hall Davis Auditorium: Please join us for a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar lecture by Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.What does it mean to think of freedom as an everyday spatial practice rather than an abstract ideal? Dr. Lewis examines freedom as an everyday spatial practice, analyzing how struggles over land, neighborhoods, and community, as well as imagined desires, constitute core political questions about who freedom is actually for and how it is achieved. The talk explores freedom as directional practice, as movement toward rather than possession of, revealing why making place becomes the necessary work of collective futures. This college-wide event is organized by the Department of Anthropology as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and is open to the community. November 2, Monday at 5:30-7:00pm Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

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TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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 us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

TANG Tang Teaching Museum: Join us Sunday, September 6, at 2 pm, for a tour of the Museum and current exhibitions. 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 Skidmore 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.

Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Rooms 3 & 4

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