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Getty grant will extend Tang's educational outreach

A $200,000 grant from the Getty Foundation will allow Skidmore’s Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery to dramatically expand its online presence, creating innovative learning resources based on its gallery exhibitions.

The Getty Foundation grant will provide funds to support a new Tang position of digital resources producer, an appointment that will help the museum “bring our online offerings to a wholly new level,” said John Weber, Dayton Director of the Tang Museum. “It will allow us to document, interpret, and comment on exhibitions in ways uniquely suited for long-term academic use.”

The digital resources producer will collaborate with Tang staff, faculty curators, and Skidmore technology staff to spearhead development of online resources about Tang exhibitions and collections in ways tailor-made for college faculty and students. Responsibilities of the position will include overseeing the production of web features that incorporate video and audio of curatorial, scholarly, and artist commentaries; contextual information; video walk-throughs; and 360-degree photography and online image sequences of the Tang’s original exhibitions.

“The Getty Foundation award will enable us to use digital technology to document the living exhibition, and provide curricular and pedagogical enrichment long after the exhibition has closed,” said Susan Kress, Skidmore’s vice president for academic affairs.

The goals of the grant include conveying more fully and vividly the experience of “living exhibitions” and also recording the ideas and insights they provoke. “As much as we plan and anticipate,” says Weber, “we can never predict everything we will learn from the objects when they are finally brought together in the gallery.” Reflecting this, the Tang will generate a significant proportion of its online resources after exhibitions open, rather than preparing web-based educational materials exclusively in advance based on texts, photographs, and pre-opening interviews, as museums have traditionally done. This approach will allow the museum to capture the surprises and unexpected intellectual connections that are triggered by art objects within the gallery’s architectural space.

When the museum’s Getty-funded activities are completed in three years, Weber expects that the Tang program will serve as a national model for college and university museums interested in ways to combine online and real-world learning opportunities.

PDF: Opener 15: Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular PR_Amy_Sillman.pdf 

Skidmore Receives Grant
Link: Skidmore Receives Mellon Grant for Tang Museum

Times Union article on Molecules That Matter exhibition

Link: "Atom Bonds" by Tom Keyser

Weber, Giguere interviewed on WAMC's

Joe Donahue and Julia Taylor of WAMC Radio interview Tang Dayton Director John Weber and Class of 1962 Term Professor of Chemistry Raymond Giguere about the Molecules That Matter exhibit at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.
Link: Audio recording of the WAMC interview

PDF: Molecules That Matter Blog PR_MTM_Blog.pdf 

PDF: Molecules That Matter PR_Molecules_That_Matter.pdf 

PDF: Molecules That Matter Events PR_MTM_Events.pdf 

Times Union article on West African Masquerade exhibition
Link: "Photo Play" by Tim Kane

PDF: West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo PR_West_African_Masquerade.pdf 

PDF: Museum Conference PR_Museum_Conference.pdf 

PDF: Joachim Schmid: Photoworks PR_Joachim_Schmid.pdf 

PDF: Opener 12: Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion PR_Martin_Kersels.pdf 

PDF: Tang Featured in New Book on Work of Architect Antoine Predock PR_Predock.pdf 

PDF: Twice Drawn Twice_Drawn_06.pdf 

PDF: Tang Museum Garners Accolades Accolades_Fall06.pdf 

PDF: Opener 11: Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction PR_Opener_11.pdf 

PDF: Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations Seeing_Peace_PR.pdf 

PDF: Malloy Visiting Artist Lecturer with Brice Marden Brice_Marden_PR.pdf 

PDF: Twice Drawn Twice_Drawn_PR.pdf 

Sunday Gazette article on And Therefore I Am exhibition

Link: "Painting, sculpture, video take visitors inside artists' heads at Tang Museum" by Karen Bjornland

PDF: And Therefore I Am ATIA_PR.pdf 

PDF: Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective Richard_Pettibone_PR.pdf 

New York Times article on the Richard Pettibone Exhibition

Link: "Imitations that transcend flattery" by Roberta Smith

PDF: Tang Fifth Anniversary Fifth_Anniversary_PR.pdf 

PDF: America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler America_Starts_Here_PR.pdf 

PDF: Opener 10: Kathy Butterly: Freaks and Beauties Kathy_Butterly_PR.pdf 

PDF: Weapons of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda of War Weapons_PR.pdf 

PDF: Hair: Untangling a Social History Hair_PR.pdf 

PDF: Brushing the Present: Contemporary Academy Painting from China Brushing_the_Present_PR.pdf 

PDF: Opener 5: Alyson Shotz: A Slight Magnification of Altered Things Alyson_Schotz_PR.pdf 

PDF: Opener 3: Some Kind of Love: Nayland Blake, Performance Video 1989-2002 Nayland_Blake_PR.pdf 

PDF: Living with Duchamp Living_with_Duchamp_PR.pdf 

PDF: Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress Kara_Walker_PR.pdf 

PDF: Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations 1979-2000 Fred_Wilson_PR.pdf 

PDF: Opener 2: Paul Henry Ramirez: Elevatious Transcendsualistic Paul_Henry_Ramirez_PR.pdf 

PDF: Tang Museum Overview Tang_Museum_Overview.pdf 

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