The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
at Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Phone: 518-580-8080
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Gallery spaces

The purpose of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is to awaken the community to the richness and diversity of the human experience through the medium of art.
Anchor name: Wachenheim Gallery
Installation view of Terry Adkins: Recital, Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2012
View of the Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view of Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2013
View of the Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2007
View of the Wachenheim Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Opener 19: Los Carpinteros, Wachenheim Gallery, Tang teaching Museum, 2010
Wachenheim Gallery

• 3,078 square feet

• Largest gallery on the first floor

• Tallest wall rises thirty-three feet

The Wachenheim Gallery is the main gallery on the first floor with an interior wall that rises thirty-three-feet high. In keeping with Antoine Predock’s ideas about transparency, the wall includes windows that allows visitors on the second floor to see into the first-floor gallery space.
Installation view, Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Malloy Wing Galleries, Tang Teaching Museum, 2011
View of the Malloy Wing Galleries, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Vik Muniz: Seeing Is Believing, Malloy Wing Galleries, Tang Teaching Museum, 2000
View of the Malloy Wing Galleries, Tang Teaching Museum
View of the Malloy Wing Galleries, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), Tang Teaching Museum, 2015
Malloy Wing

• 3,760 square feet

• Includes multiple gallery spaces

• One area with glass on two sides is known as “the fish tank”

The Malloy Wing includes the Illumination Gallery, The Alfred Z. and Nancy L. Solomon Gallery, the Palamountain Gallery, and the Class of 1964 Gallery. Together, these spaces constitute the largest gallery space in the museum. This space also has some commonly used unofficial names. The Class of 1964 Gallery, with its two glass walls, is affectionately known as “the fish tank,” and the Illumination Gallery, which overlooks the atrium and offers views inside the Wachenheim Gallery, is often called “the bridge.”
Assistant Professor Eunice Ferreira’s class “TH338 Black Theater” performs in Tel_, Tang Teaching Museum, December 12, 2017, photo by Andrzej Pilarczyk
Installation view, Liz Collins — Energy Field, State Farm Mezzanine Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2015
View of the State Farm Mezzanine Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Molecules That Matter, State Farm Mezzanine Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2007
View of the State Farm Mezzanine Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
View of the State Farm Mezzanine Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Opener 2: Paul Henry Ramirez — Elevatious Transcendsualistic, State Farm Mezzanine Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2002
View of the State Farm Mezzanine Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
State Farm Mezzanine Gallery

• 540 square feet

• Campus hangout spot

• Gallery with lowest ceiling, measuring 7 ½ feet high

The Mezzanine Gallery is a multiuse exhibition space that hovers above the entryway on the first floor, and a few steps down from the second floor. Since in October 2015, the space has been used for long-term installations in which artists transform the gallery into a lounge-like area for meetings, quiet study, and events.
Installation view, Opener 20: Paula Hayes — Understory, Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum, 2010
Installation view, The First 15: Photography from the Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum, 2013
View of the Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, We the People, Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum, 2012
View of the Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum
View of the Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, We the People, Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum, 2012
Payne Presentation Room

• 1,800 square feet

• Main multipurpose room

• Includes state-of-the-art audio and projection equipment

The Payne Room offers an excellent venue for presentations, and has been the location for numerous talks, dialogues, and visual presentations by students, faculty, artists, writers, and critics. Skidmore College Community meetings take place there, and the room has been used for dance and other performance art, as well as rock, jazz, classical, and experimental music concerts. On Saturdays, children and their parents often work together on art-making projects, led by our Museum Educators.
Installation view, Elevator Music 30: Critter & Guitari, Tang Teaching Museum, 2016
View of the Elevator, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Elevator Music 22: Seeing Sounds, Tang Teaching Museum, 2012
View of the Elevator, Tang Teaching Museum
View of the Elevator, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Elevator Music 15: A Sound Map of the Hudson, Tang Teaching Museum, 2009
View of the Elevator, Tang Teaching Museum
Elevator Gallery

• 112 square feet

• Smallest gallery space in the museum

• Location of an exhibition series called Elevator Music

The multipurpose nature of the Tang Teaching Museum’s design even includes the elevator, which is the smallest gallery space in the museum. The elevator is the site of the ongoing exhibition series called Elevator Music, which is usually an installation of music, voice, or sound art that may also include a visual arts installation.
Installation view, Stripes, Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2007
View of the Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Paul Shambroom: Meetings, Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2013
Installation view, Stripes, Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2007
View of the Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Eye Rhymes, Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2010
Installation view, Graphic Jews: Negotiating Identity in Sequential Art, Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2014
View of the Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum
Installation view, Eye Rhymes, Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2010
Installation view, For You, Winter Gallery, Tang Teaching Museum, 2010
Winter Gallery

• 718 square feet

• Windows dominate one side

• Often used for student-curated exhibitions or course-related faculty-curated shows

One of the most recognizable features of the Winter Gallery on the museum’s first floor is the row of windows that dominate one side of the long, rectangular space. Located near a glass doorway that allows visitors to see into the Collections Storage Area, the Winter Gallery is often used in exhibitions that highlight work from the Tang’s growing collection. This includes both student-curated exhibitions and faculty-curated exhibitions, such as study exhibitions related to a specific course.
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