Frances Day 2026A Summer Celebration at the Tang

Join us for our annual Frances Day, a community open house, on Saturday, July 18, from 2 to 6:30 pm. We'll have a day full of art, art-making, tours, food, music, and more!

Visitors can drop in for activities all afternoon (including pinch-pot making with Saratoga Clay Arts Center), join scheduled tours, and enjoy a musical performance from 5:00 to 6:30 by Great Mutations.

Frances Day is held in honor of the museum’s namesake, Frances Young Tang, Skidmore College Class of 1961.

Schedule

• Drop-in Activities, 2 to 5 pm
• Make clay pinch pots: learn hand-building skills making clay pinch pots with staff from the Saratoga Clay Arts Center
• Stamp bandanas: block print your own bandana
• Create felt-button flowers: create floral arrangements with felt and buttons
• Design tile mosaic coasters: arrange small tiles to make mosaic coasters
• Decorate glass vases: use paint markers and yarn to adorn vases for your felt-button flowers
• Photo booth
• Chalk & bubbles (outdoors)

• Timed Activities, 2:15 to 6:30 pm
• 2:15 pm: Tour of All These Growing Things — with Rachel Seligman, Tang Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator
• 3:15 pm: Tour of Kathy Butterly: Assume Yes — with Ian Berry, Dayton Director
• 4:15 pm: Tour of the Tang Collection — with Nora Riccio, Tang Collections Registrar, and Jessica Cloer, the Frances Young Tang ’61 Associate Curator
• 5:00 pm: Troy-based rock group Great Mutations in concert

Light refreshments will be offered during the day. During the concert, more substantial food (burgers and hotdogs) will be available; beer and wine will also be available for purchase. All tours include ASL interpretation. This event is free and open to the public!

Plenty of free parking is available in lots adjacent to the Museum. In case of inclement weather, activities will be indoors. For more information, visit http://tang.skidmore.edu or call the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080.