SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College’s Dunkerley Dialogue series returns 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, with a conversation between artist Ruby Sky Stiler and Skidmore Associate Professor of Psychology Casey Schofield.
Stiler, who lives and works in Brooklyn, has garnered wide acclaim for a visual language that spans time periods, art movements, and spatial dimensions. Her influences move between the art historical and deeply personal: from textbook images of Greco-Roman sculpture and Art Deco illustrations to contemporary textile patterns and iPhone photographs. of contemporary culture.
Her work is on view at the Tang in the recently opened exhibition Opener 34: Ruby Sky Stiler—New Patterns.
Dunkerley Dialogues pair artists with Skidmore faculty members in a format that acts as a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines and can spark new ideas for all participants. The dialogue between Stiler and Schofield is the first in-person Dunkerley Dialogue since the start of the pandemic. It will be in the Payne Presentation Room at the Tang. The series is named in honor of the generous support of Michele Dunkerley, Skidmore College ’80.
The event is free and open to the public. Visitors are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted, and to wear a high-quality mask. For more information, please contact the Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit tang.skidmore.edu.
