Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:27

Plays at Play at Tang Museum This Week: Three Playwrights Respond to Art & Empathy

Installation view, Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy, on view at the Tang Museum through Dec. 18.  Photo by Shawn LaChapelle. Installation view, Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy, on view at the Tang Museum through Dec. 18. Photo by Shawn LaChapelle.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces the premiere performances on Thursday, Oct. 27, of newly commissioned works-in-progress by acclaimed playwrights Lanxing Fu, Julia May Jonas, and Andrew Rincón in response to the Tang exhibition Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy.

The three new works will be performed at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27, in the Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy exhibition at the Tang. Skidmore College students from the Theater Department will perform under the direction of Skidmore faculty members Artist-in-Residence Teisha Duncan, Visiting Assistant Professor Ji Won Jeon, and Lecturer of Dance Hettie Barnhill. 

Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy presents photography, painting, textile, and moving image from the Tang collection to explore ways art can support empathic feeling. 

The performances are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. Masks are optional, and mask-wearing is supported. For more information, contact that Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or visit tang.skidmore.edu. 

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