Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
October 21, 2023–September 7, 2025
Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
July 15–December 30, 2023
Selected publicity:
William Jaeger, “Artist Paula Wilson Shows Delirious Swath of Style at Tang Show,” Times-Union (Albany), July 31, 2023: “There seems to be no art medium that Paula Wilson has not tried, and her fearless experimentation is part of what makes her growing oeuvre succeed. … [T]he exhibition is bracing for its honest warmth, its direct expression of a good life. … this is Paula Wilson’s world. And we’re all invited.”
Indiana Nash, “On Exhibit: Accessible, satisfyingly layered works on view at Tang Teaching Museum,” Daily Gazette (Schenectady), September 2, 2023
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, “Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Fall,” Hyperallergic, August 29, 2023
Unset Texts
Co-curator with Skidmore Associate Professor of English Paul Benzon
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
September 2–December 30, 2023
Elevator Music 45: Neil Leonard—Sonance for the Precession
Member of curatorial team
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
December 10, 2022–April 30, 2023
Parallax: Framing the Cosmos
Co-curator with Tang Dayton Director Ian Berry and Skidmore Associate Professor of English Maggie Greaves
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
October 1, 2022–June 19, 2023
Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
July 9–December 18, 2022
Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science
Curator in collaboration with a curatorial advisory group of seven interdisciplinary Skidmore faculty members
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
January 29–June 12, 2022
Click here to see recordings from the accompanying two-day event, which brought in hundreds of international participants: Radical Fiber A Symposium on Art and Science, January 28–29, 2022
Click here to learn about the community-made Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef, part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project by Christine and Margaret Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring
Selected publicity:
Tresca Weinstein, “Weaving together artistry, science,” Times-Union (Albany), February 10, 2022
Joe Donahue, “‘Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science’ at the Tang,” WAMC Northeast Public Radio, March 29, 2022; interview with Rebecca McNamara and Sara Lagalwar
Jessie King, 51% #1690: “Watching the Waters,” WAMC, December 10, 2021; interview with Rebecca McNamara
John Sims, interview, on Elaina Richardson’s Shadow // Yaddo podcast, season 2, episode 8, “Math as Language,” 2022
“Radical Fiber,” The Sanctuary for Independent Media, January 26, 2022; interview with Rebecca McNamara
Cassie Hudson, “Tang Museum to unveil community-created crochet reef as part of new exhibit,” News 10, January 27, 2022; interview with Rebecca McNamara
Cassie Hudson, “Saratoga Springs museum invites the public to weave together art project,” News 10, January 21, 2021; interview with Rebecca McNamara
Elevator Music 42: Laura Splan
—Rhapsody for an Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
November 20, 2021–May 15, 2022
Elevator Music 41: Laura Ortman—Dust Dives Alive
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
July 10, 2021–November 14, 2021
Beauty & Bite
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, July 20, 2019–January 19, 2020
Selected publicity:
Seph Rodney, “Refreshing Stories Told Through the Collection of a Regional Museum,” Hyperallergic, November 1, 2019: “Beauty and Bite is exemplary of what regional collecting institutions that have smaller audiences than the museums in large city centers need to do [ . . . ] In these kinds of institutions and in these types of shows curators should make so bold as to take greater risks, and be wildly thematic.”
Indiana Nash, “On Exhibit: Saratoga Springs Tang exhibit provides more questions than answers,” Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY), October 31, 2019
William Jaeger, “‘Beauty and Bite’ on display at Skidmore’s Tang Museum,” Times-Union (Albany, NY), September 26, 2019: “The experience [of watching William Kentridge’s Tango for Page Turning], like the show taken whole, is quietly affecting.”
Elevator Music 39: Bug
Co-curator with Tang Head of Design Jean Tschanz-Egger
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
June 29–December 15, 2019
Give a damn.
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
July 1–September 30, 2018
Selected publicity:
“‘Give a damn.’ at Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York,” Pictures at an Exhibition, ArtNews, August 28, 2018
Indiana Nash, “On Exhibit: Tang asks why we ‘Give a damn.’” Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY), July 12, 2018: “‘Give a damn.’ makes the case for reconsidering what you think you know about the world—to care enough about it to really consider why.”
William Jaeger, “Give a damn exhibit at Tang highlights work of socially engaged creators,” Times-Union (Albany), August 24, 2018: “[T]here is meaningful content. There is no formal fooling around, no art for art’s sake. […] [M]uch of what is here makes you itch to do something, anything, Now.”
Elevator Music 35: Ephraim Asili—Jazz Salt
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
January 13–May 20, 2018
Traveled to the 64th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2018
Other Side: Art, Object, Self
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
August 12, 2017–January 3, 2018
Selected publicity:
William Belcher, “Other Side Opens at the Tang,” The Alt (NY Capital Region), August 16, 2017: “Other Side: Art, Object, Self, which is thoughtfully curated by Mellon Collections Curator Rebecca McNamara, represents year one of the three-year initiative funded by Mellon. […] Together, the group of work selected for the show all seem to speak to one another, and the exhibition design is well-balanced. Each piece is given room to breathe, but as a whole, the room is bursting with meaning, symbolism, and allusion – the exhibition offers a thousand points for discussion, reflection, and debate.”
William Jaeger, “Tang Show Explores Aspects of Social, Racial Identity,” Times-Union (Albany), August 30, 2017: “curator Rebecca McNamara has coaxed works by 17 artists into new conversations.”
Crazy Quilts: Stitching Memories
Co-curator with Niloo Paydar, IMA Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art
May 5, 2017–January 7, 2018
Rebecca McNamara 