Tang at Home

18th Annual Make-a-Turkey-Out-of-a-Potato Festival

How-to Turkey!

You’re invited to our 18th Annual Make-a-Turkey-Out-of-a-Potato Festival from the comfort of your home! The Tang Education Team’s video shows you four ways to make your own holiday turkey centerpieces out of various art materials — including vegetables!

See instructions and examples below.

A turkey made from two potatoes with cardboard painted wings, a lettuce tail, and accents made from pipecleaners.

A turkey potato by Kara!

A turkey made out of a potato and multicolored/textured pipecleaners.

A turkey potato by Malia!

A turkey made out of a potato and pipecleaners.

A turkey potato by Nate!

Three turkeys posed in different ways made from potatoes, popsicle sticks, pipecleaners, and pom poms.

Turkey potatoes by Heather!

Turkeys!

Cassie’s Alternate-Foods Turkey

A constructed turkey out of paper, popsicle sticks, feathers, and wiggly eyes.

Sofie’s Paper Turkey

A constructed turkey mask made out of a paper plate, colorful tape, corrugated paper, feathers, wiggly eyes, and construction paper.

Keshawn’s Turkey Mask

Once you complete your turkeys, please send us photos of them so we can share your creations here and via social media. Submit your photos to Laurie M. Tisch Educator for K-12 and Community Programs Sunny Ra at sra@skidmore.edu by November 29, and share them on your own social media accounts by including #TangTeachingMuseum.

Studio!

Tang at Home Studio

You’re invited to take part in an our fall 2020 art-making series — Tang at Home Studio!

On every other Friday from September 25 to November 20 at 5:00 PM, we’ll gather online in real time to meet, talk, and make things together. Recommended for kids age 5 to 12 with a parent or guardian. Registration will be required. Each session includes an at-home art project and a real-time online gathering on Friday led by Sunny Ra, the Laurie M. Tisch Educator for K-12 and Community Programs.

For past Tang at Home Studio sessions, click “Read More.”

Past Tang at Home Studios for Summer 2020:

Week 1 (July 13–17): Abstract Shadow Drawing
Week 2 (July 20–24): Dance with Beehive
Week 3 (July 27–31): Fluttering Butterflies
Week 4 (August 3–7): Wrapped in Tradition

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Create!

The Tang Museum is dedicated to art and ideas. We think all art can spark new ideas and inspire our creativity! Here are art-making projects for you, inspired by Tang exhibitions and collections.

Special Video Drawing Challenge: One-line Portrait

Sunny Ra, the Museum Educator at the Tang Teaching Museum, and her mother demonstrate how to make a blind contour drawing in both English and Korean.
Download the Drawing Challenge PDF.

A hand traces diamond shaped shadows with a green sharpie.

Drawing by Sunny Ra

More Art Projects

Project Theme: Drawing Shadows — Capture shadows by tracing them to create a one-of-a-kind abstract work of art!
Download the PDF here.
Project Theme: Tang Tangle — Using a writing utensil, begin simple and end as complex as you like!
Download the PDF here.
Project Theme: Portrait Power — Inspired by Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's Musclemen series, from the 2020 exhibition FLEX, participants will create their own portrait of inner and outer strength.
Download the PDF here.
Project Theme: Beauty — Inspired by Ebony G. Patterson's Untitled (Blingas 1), 2008, from the series Gangstas for Life, in the 2019 exhibition Serious Sparkle, participants will make their own portrait that defines beauty.
Download the PDF here.
Project Theme: Empowerment — Inspired by Alisa Sikelianos-Carter's Crown Me, from the 2019 exhibition Serious Sparkle, participants will create their own powerful, symmetrical work of art.
Download the PDF here.

Color!

Download these Tang-related line drawings and use your imagination to color them in!

Black and white line drawing of two art installers holding a large painting

Line drawing of two art installers holding a painting for the exhibition Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup

Coloring Pages

Installing half of the painting Steeplechase, 1969 in the exhibition Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup, what color combinations are electric for you?

More Pages

Mary Weatherford: Canyon–Daisy–Eden

Elevator Music 40: Melissa Thorne—Landslide/Solid

Installation view of Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp

Nicole Cherubini’s Shaking the Trees

The Tang Building!

Nick Cave’s Arm Peace from the exhibition FLEX

Superheroes on the Shelf, from the exhibition FLEX

Tang Extra Credit!

Re-creations of works of art from the Tang collection made by people like you!

Scavenger Hunt!

Enhance your experience with the Tang collection through a series of questions that prompt you to engage with several works of art in deeper ways.

How to Participate

Answer and submit your questions using this google form
Upon completion of the scavenger hunt you’ll receive a surprise digital prize!

This project is designed and organized by Skidmore students Maria Staack ’22, Fiona Mclaughlin ’20, and Nathan Bloom ’21, as part of With the Tang, a student run digital zine.

A black and white blurred photograph of a mountainous island in a seascape.

Scavenger Hunt Google Form

More Fun Activities!

Check out these other great at-home art-making activities, courtesy our friends at fellow art organizations.

An abstract painting with red, blues, and blacks.

Slow Art Day with Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe

The Portland Museum of Art presents Slow Art Day.

What is Slow Art? Guided close looking at new paintings and sculpture by Carrie and Sheila.

Carrie Moyer, whose work is included in the Tang collection, was featured in the 2013 solo exhibition Opener 24: Carrie Moyer — Pirate Jenny

A photo of an art installation featuring potted plants, lawn chairs, and decorative tiles.

Nicole Cherubini in Creative Momentum

What is an installation? Make your own at home!

Art Omi features the current Tang exhibition Nicole Cherubini: Shaking the Trees in its at-home art-making series.

A yellow art print featuring an ink portrait of Thoreau next to text, "LET THE SUN SHINE IN", with red text above that says "K-5 Heroes and sheroes activity packet."

Corita 101 Learning by Heart (at home)

The Corita Art Center, a project of the Immaculate Heart Community, preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice.

The Center now offers downloadable K-5 worksheets inspired by Corita’s “heroes and sheroes” series, available in English & Spanish. The download is free, but you have to put it into a shopping cart to access the download.

Corita Kent was the subject of the 2013 Tang exhibition Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent

Kara Walker, a young, black woman, focuses on cutting out a silhouette against a white wall.

Kara Walker installs Gone, An Historical of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994) at the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY2003 Production still from the “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season 2 episode, “Stories,” 2003

Art21

Watch all Art21 videos on artists for free and download the deep educator guides to follow along with at-home projects and extra info.

Dozens of Tang artists are featured in Art21. A sampling includes Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring, Yun-Fei Ji, Zanele Muholi, Stephen Petronio, Lari Pittman, Arlene Shechet, Shahzia Sikander, Kiki Smith, Ruby Sky Stiler, Jessica Stockholder, Kara Walker, and Fred Wilson.

The Tang has hosted screenings and discussions, and was even a location for filming! Kara Walker was filmed in the Wachenheim Gallery and print room during the installation of her exhibition Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress for her first Art21 feature, which debuted in their second season in 2003.