Tang Museum Stages Visit with Artist Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College on April 24, 2025.
Photo by Thomas Dimopoulos.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Legendary writer, poet, actress, and theatre-maker Penny Arcade visited Saratoga Springs last week, where she participated in two days of events.
On April 24, Arcade (aka Susana Ventura) was the featured guest in conversation with Skidmore College professor Joseph Cermatori. The program was part of the Dunkerley Dialogue program at the Tang Teaching Museum. The museum is currently featuring the exhibition “a field of hum and bloom.” The exhibit runs through July 20.
The following day, she returned to the Tang Museum and was interviewed by students as part of Dayton Director Ian Berry’s The Artist Interview class. The goal of the class is for students to learn how to interview artists and about creating new oral histories. Arcade is also an archivist, oral history maker, and videographer, and along with longtime artistic collaborator Steve Zehentner, founded “The Lower East Side Biography Project,” which may be viewed at YouTube.