All These Growing Things: New, Year-Long Exhibition at Tang Museum
Barbara Takenaga, Wheel (Zozma), 2008, stenciled linen pulp and acrylic on cotton and abaca base sheet, 20 x 16 1/2 inches, Tang Museum collection, gift of Dieu Donné, New York. Image provided.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — On Aug. 23, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College launched “All These Growing Things,” a year-long exhibition of contemporary and historical paintings, prints, textiles, photography, and sculpture from the Tang Museum collection that explores questions of becoming and belonging. The exhibition will be on view until July 19, 2026.
Organized around four central ideas—Ancestries, Masks, Transformations, and Hybrids—the exhibition traces personal, ancestral, and cultural histories; considers masking as both revelation and concealment; explores the transformative possibilities of our lives; and highlights interconnections among humans, plants, and animals. Hybrids functions as a cross-cutting thread that weaves through the other three sections to draw out these interconnections.
“All These Growing Things promises to spark new ideas about the interconnections between all of us,” said Ian Berry, Dayton Director. “As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, this exhibition reflects our mission as a hub of interdisciplinary art and ideas—where exhibitions can catalyze creative thinking.”
Many of the works on view are recent acquisitions that are being exhibited at the museum for the first time, including gifts from Ann and Mel Schaffer, Peter Norton, Jack Shear, Eileen and Michael Cohen, and Dieu Donné, a nonprofit that supports artists and papermaking.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Tang Museum, located on the Skidmore College campus at 815 N. Broadway in Saratoga Springs, is open noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, with extended hours until 9 p.m. on Thursdays.