Student docents to lead Tang tours in April
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Black Gold I, 2006, acrylic paint on Dutch wax printed
cotton canvas, 130 x 265 inches. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Museum Purchase, 2008-2-1, (Photograph by Franko Khoury)
The Tang Museum at Skidmore College is offering free, student-led public tours of
the exhibition Environment and Object?Recent African Art during the month of April.
The tours, offered at 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, will be given by Skidmore students
who have been working with co-curators Lisa Aronson, associate professor of art history
at Skidmore and John Weber, Dayton Director of the Tang Museum, along with Susi Kerr,
senior museum educator at the Tang.
The students - Hilary Knecht, James Lyness, Victoria Manganiello and Grace Travaglini
- have developed tours on the work of the 16 artists on view, surveying the wide range
of ways that contemporary artists from Africa are responding to environmental conditions
and their own situations to make art. Environment and Object includes sculpture, photography, painting and video by well-known artists from Africa
and contemporary African artists living abroad.
For more information on the exhibition and other public events, visit the Tang website.
