Tang Announces Public Programs for ‘Christina Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My’

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The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has announced a series of public programs in conjunction with the exhibition Christina Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My.

The exhibition is the artist’s first full-scale solo museum exhibition in North America. Kim, whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL), engages with how we experience and conceptualize sound to challenge the notion that it is a solely auditory experience. Her work explores and employs elements from various information systems, including musical notation, infographics, and ASL, using these systems to develop her own dryly humorous visual vocabulary. The exhibition runs through July 16.

The following events are free and open to the public. All events include American Sign Language interpretation. For more information, contact the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080, tang@ skidmore.edu, or visit https:// tang.skidmore.edu.

Monday, February 27, 6:30 p.m. - Community ASL Workshop. A 90-minute workshop that introduces Deaf history and culture, American Sign

Language, and basic ASL vocabulary and grammar. This is a beginner workshop, no ASL experience necessary. Content will be similar in each workshop, and participants can attend as many as they like. The program will be taught by Colette Steves, a certified ASL instructor. Free and open to all; registration required.

Saturday, March 4, 4 p.m. -

Artist Talk with Christine Sun Kim, reception to follow and Opening Reception for Tang Spring Exhibitions:

• Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My

• Elevator Music 45: Neil Leonard— Sonance for the Precession

• Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting

• Matter of Faith—Medieval Art from the Hyde Collection

• Parallax: Framing the Cosmos

• Triangles within a Square: Art and Mathematics

The Museum is open to the public on Thursday from noon to 9 p.m. and Friday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For details on all programming, go to: https:// tang.skidmore.edu.

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