Commencement 2024
Schedule of Events
May 17-18, 2024
Details of these activities and events may change by May 18. An up-to-date final schedule, noting time changes and locations, will be available upon your arrival on campus. Please be sure to pick one up at the Information Desk in Case Center's commons area, second floor, on Friday, May 17, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Your senior will also receive a copy.
Friday, May 17
Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony followed by Recognition for Graduating Honors Forum Seniors
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
Held annually, the Periclean Scholar Awards competition recognizes excellence by awarding up to four prizes to seniors for distinguished projects in all disciplines. Periclean Scholar Awards recipients share the honor of this achievement at a ceremonial presentation of the project open to the College community. Following these presentations, Honors Forum members who are graduating seniors will receive their recognition medals. A reception will follow to celebrate graduating HF seniors and Periclean Scholar Awards recipients.
For additional information on Periclean Honors Forum, please contact Flagg Taylor.
At The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour
Malloy Wing
February 3, 2024 - May 19, 2024
London-based artist Isaac Julien CBE RA is a multimedia filmmaker and photographer
known for bringing history to life with a nuanced and thought-provoking visual language
that critically addresses the politics of race and gender. His film installation Lessons of the Hour features actor Ray Fearon in the role of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century
abolitionist, writer, and freed slave. Open-ended narrative vignettes set in Washiongton,
D.C., London, and Edinburgh portray Douglass with various influential women of his
time - including Susan B. Anthony and Ottilie Assing - dramatizing ideas of racial
and gender equality. Julien's work reiterates Douglass's belief in the importance
and power of photography and picture-making in advocating for social justice. Julien
conjures Douglass's role in the abolitionist movement, powerfully emphasizing its
relevance to contemporary social justice struggles. Lessons of the Hour features ten screens of varying dimensions hung salon-style - referencing a popular
ninteenth-century method of arranging a group of images.
Senior Thesis Art Exhibit
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
May 13–18, 2024
This exhibit showcases outstanding works in all media by senior studio-art majors.
Visit The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery website for more information on these exhibitions.
Main Gym, Williamson Sports Center
By invitation only.
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
Induction ceremony for new members. Faculty, staff, students, and their families are welcome to attend. Reception follows.
Case Center Plaza (Rain plan - The Spa, Case Center)
A brief ceremony for seniors, families, and friends to dedicate the Class of 2024 brick pathway, given by the families of the Class of 2024 in honor of their graduating seniors. Each brick is engraved with the name of the student whose families participate in the Class of 2024 Senior Family Project.
Visit the Class of 2024 Parents Fund page for more information.
President's Reception
Scribner House, 791 North Broadway (Rain plan-Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, first floor)
President Marc C. Conner and Barbara Reyes-Conner greet seniors, their guests, trustees,
faculty and staff at their home, historic Scribner House
Saturday, May 18
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, Skidmore College Campus
Families, friends, and seniors are welcome as guests of the College.
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park
Seniors arrive, pick up diplomas, and form processional.
Audience members are asked to be seated by this time.
113th Commencement Exercises
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park
Commencement Reception
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park
Come celebrate! Please join graduates, families, friends, faculty, and staff for
a celebratory reception following the Commencement Ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate
the wonderful accomplishments of Skidmore College's Class of 2024.
The Skidmore Shop will be open Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. with 15% off on branded merchandise.
On Saturday, in addition to their campus store hours of 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., the Skidmore Shop will have a pop-up location at Commencement. Great new merchandise and Skidmore swag will be available, including diploma frames, hats, hoodies, t-shirts, and branded other gifts items for the whole family. Join us in celebrating and commemorating your time at Skidmore College in style and with pride.
Skidmore's Commencement Exercises are held at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, located in the Saratoga Spa State Park, several miles from campus. The SPAC amphitheater is covered but not enclosed. This map will show parking, facilities, and points of interests.