Tang Teaching Museum’s Accelerate wins national award
The cover of the first issue of Accelerate published by the Tang.
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has received
first prize in the 2018 American Alliance of Museums Publications Design Competition
for the first issue of Accelerate: Access and Inclusion at The Tang Teaching Museum.
Accelerate combines cutting-edge design, scholarship and photography of artwork in
the Tang Teaching Museum’s growing collection with students, artists, performers and
scholars who have been inspired by those objects.
"This award is a tremendous honor for the Tang and Skidmore College, bringing national recognition to our great faculty, students, and guest scholars and artists,” said Tang Teaching Museum Dayton Director Ian Berry. "I'm so pleased to share this award with the Tang staff, designers, photographers and all those who contributed to the publication, especially (Mellon Collections Curator) Rebecca McNamara, who plays a vital role in managing this project."
Accelerate No. 1, published in 2017, shares the award in the magazines and scholarly journals category with The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Metropolitan Museum Journal (volume 52/2017).
Berry and McNamara edited the publication, which documents the first year of a three-year project called “Accelerate: Access and Inclusion at The Tang Teaching.” The project aims to use the Tang collection to support academic research, build broader and more diverse museum audiences, commission fresh interpretations of artwork to enhance scholarship, and strengthen an appreciation of, and facility for, humanistic inquiry. The project is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Contributors to the first issue included Adam Tinkle, a visiting assistant professor of media and film studies and the current director of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative; Barbara Black, professor of English; Hannah Traore ’17; and guest artists Fatou Kandé Senghor, Willie Cole and Jeffrey Gibson.
The second issue of Accelerate was scheduled for publication this fall and the third in fall 2019.
The publication was designed by Linked by Air of New York City.
