Tang Teaching Museum Announces Frances Day 2025

SARATOGA SPRINGS—The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces its annual summer open house, Frances Day, will be on Saturday, July 19, beginning at 2 pm. This year’s event is extra special: the Tang is turning 25 in 2025, and Frances Day marks the first celebration of the milestone year.

The birthday celebration features tours and drop-in art-making projects. The exhibition Building Blocks looks back at the architectural history and inaugural programming of the museum. Visitors can take a tour and then create a 3-D Tang Museum out of folded paper. 

The exhibition Up to Us: Black Dimensions in Art, 1975–Tomorrow features art and archives in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Black Dimensions in Art Inc. (BDA), a nonprofit community group that supports Black artists and encourages youth participation in the arts. Exhibiting artist and BDA member Francelise Dawkins will lead an art-making project Free to Fly, in which visitors will make their own mobiles. 

Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves, the exhibition that has transformed the mezzanine into a museum community space devoted to art and conversation, features a cape-wearing hybrid deity Coywolf Guardian. The sculpture serves as inspiration for a cape-making project led by exhibiting artist Yvette Molina. 

At 5 pm, guests are invited to a concert on the lawn with the Albany-based indie-rock band Dan Carr and the Cure for Asthma. A crowd-pleaser from last year’s Upbeat on the Roof concert, the band returns to play their catchy, unstoppable music.

Frances Day honors the museum’s namesake, Frances Young Tang, Skidmore College Class of ’61, and offers multiple ways for visitors to explore the museum’s stellar program of contemporary art exhibitions and events. 

All events are free and open to the public. All tours include ASL interpretation⁠. Plenty of free parking is available in lots adjacent to the Museum. In case of inclement weather, activities will be indoors.