ROOM•MATE
Living with Tang Art

Tess smiles as she pets a cat that sits in her lap in front of a wall decorated with framed art and posters.

Tess Miller ’25 with Jesse F Reed’s Amazon Laundry, n.d., Aquatint, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Eva Marshall Bates Weaver, Class of 1921, 1988.13

Four white students sit on a plush brown chair and smile as they look up at a work of art hanging on their wall.

Ana Sherwood ’22, Morgan Sickles ’23, Stella Piasecki ’23, and Matt Grega ’23 at home with Max Bill’s Geometrical Construction 1, 1970, color lithograph, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of the Roberts Cugno and Logan, Media Gallery.

Three students sit at a table with an abstract work of art on the wall behind them.

Eliana Colzani ’22 and housemates share a meal with her Spring 2021 Roommate selection: Henri Matisse’s Palme blanche sur fond rouge, 1946-1947, published 1978⁠, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Richard Levine

A student holds a flower in his mouth as he stands before an artwork on his wall.

Kelven Polite ’22 strikes a pose beside Madison Dudek’s Spring 2021 Roommate selection: Vik Muniz’s Medusa Marinara, 1999⁠, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of John Weber and Leila Whittemore, photo by Madison Dudek ’22

A student holds an abstract artwork from the Tang collection.

Katherine Leonard ’21 takes home her Spring 2021 Roommate selection: Paula Hayes’ Untitled, 2010, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Beverley Mastrianni

A student reclines on a sofa beneath an artwork on her wall.

Lydia Doban ’21 reclines in front of Reva Preven’s Spring 2021 Roommate selection: Nan Goldin’s Suzanne and Phillippe on the train, Long Island, 1985⁠, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Leslie Tonkonow, Class of 1974, and Klaus Ottmann, photo by Reva Preven ’21

Jose Nunez ’23 shows his Spring 2021 Roommate selection: Eduardo Paolozzi’s High Life, 1967, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of George Friedman and Diane Love

Simone Hadebe ’20 getting ready to take home Malick Sidibé’s Untitled at ROOM•MATE Art Pick-Up Day, Tang Teaching Museum, January 26, 2020, photo by Dan Lubbers

Fiona Campbell ’22 in her dorm with Salvador Dali’s Don Quixote (Don Quichotte), 1966, published 1978, etching on paper, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Richard Levine

Fiona McLaughlin ’20 in her home with Shinique Smith’s Collage with Orange Flowers, 2007, mixed media on paper, Tang Teaching Museum collection, gift of Anne and Arthur Goldstein

A student stands in her living room next to a framed artwork hung on the wall. The artwork has a white background with a hot pink diamond-like shape in the center left

Serena Hildebrandt ’20, at home with Jonathan Borofsky’s I dreamed I found a red ruby, 1978-1982, lithograph on paper, Tang Teaching Museum collection, promised gift of Jack Shear

four smiling students stand and pose with their wrapped and framed artworks before leaving the museum to bring the works home for the semester

ROOM•MATE pilot participants Kira Lee-Mundschau ’20, Lila Dittersdorf ’20, Serena Hildebrandt ’20 and Caroline Coxe ’20 with their packaged artwork

Art Loan Program for Skidmore Students

Have you ever wanted to live with art you saw in a museum? Roommate: Living with Tang Art returns this Fall. The program gives Skidmore students the opportunity to borrow artwork from the Tang collection to hang in their dorm or apartment.

This year, 100 works from the Tang Museum collection are available for students to borrow on a first come, first served basis. The works will be featured in an exhibition on view in the Payne Room beginning August 26. On Thursday, September 7, at 6 pm, students are invited to attend a viewing party and info session, where they can learn more about how to participate and view all 100 works. Then, on Saturday, September 9, at 9 am, students will line up for our Pickup Day event (the line, however, will form much earlier; in 2022, students began the line at 2 pm the prior day); the first 100 students in line have the opportunity to bring works home for the academic year.

Read about the artworks in ROOM•MATE

ROOM•MATE Artworks

Below is a selection of artworks available for students to borrow as part of Roommate: Living with Tang Art.

Roommate: Living with Tang Art

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