Here is a recording of the Jody Folwell show training, with your colleagues Marne Zafar and Josie Owens:
October 10 training in Jody Folwell O’Powa O’Meng
Here is the PDF prepared by Marne Zafar, to reference for a tour:
Here is a recording of the in-gallery training with Curator Tom Rassieur, in the Dark Visions print exhibition in G344:
October 9 Gallery 344 Dark Visions training
Below is a link to the recording of Galina Olmsted’s talk on the upcoming exhibition, At the Moulin Rouge:
Recording of At the Moulin Rouge Guide Presentation 9.18.24
Here are Galina’s slides:
Olmsted_Moulin Rouge_Guide 9.18.24
Here are the labels:
Here are the panels:
Here is a video Galina recommended: Allan McNab Virtual Lecture: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Celebrity Culture of Paris | February 25, 2021
From your colleague Anna Bethune: Taylor Swift credits inspiration from Loie Fuller and acknowledged this during her Rep tour – song Dress -she had a Loie Fuller style dancer on stage… AM using this information for a teenager tour in french on Saturday – have to speak their language! FIlm is available, link here.
From your colleague Deb Baumer, a video: The Surprising Life of Toulouse-Lautrec: The Painter of Parisian Nightlife
Here is the recording of our training with Curator Tom Rassieur:
07.10.24 Destined for Mia training Part 1
07.10.24 Destined for Mia training Part 2
07.10.24 Destined for Mia training Part 3
(Note: Sadly, the camera battery gave out after 1.5 hours, so we missed the last four paintings, But there is plenty to learn with the rest!)
From Curatorial, the accession proposals for the artworks currently on view in the Rotunda:
Rotunda Spring 2024 Accessions Proposal for General Distribution
From Yuko Ralston, a package of information on the new exhibition Bizen: Contemporary Expressions of an Ancient Japanese Pottery.
Guide Training_Bizen_Contemporary Expressions of Japan’s Ancient Pottery
Here is a link to the exhibition page.
Here is a video of Curator Andreas Marks’ in-gallery training:
From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert:
Here is the recording:
Tom Rassieur’s illustrated guide:
Hendrick Goltzius Timeline illustrated
Tom’s blog post on Mia’s website:
How love grows cold: The curious adage behind a visiting painting
Here is our resource page for Art in Bloom 2024!
First, we have a great planning document (including all artworks and PFA names and statements) created by Karen Kletter to help organize your tour routes and information to share at selected stops:
Another useful source of information for AIB background is the recent Friends’ talk with AIB floral artists:
Talk – Floral Artist Panel Friends Lecture
AIB 2024 PFA selections and statements:
2024 PFAs and Artworks by Gallery (1)
Monica Buller Cabral_Manifestation of Mont Akiba Gongen (1)
2024 Artists’ Inspiration Statements (1)
Link to AIB page on Mia website, with all events listed
Ikebana basics information:
Flora and fauna in Christi Belcourt’s painting:
It’s a Delicate Balance – flora and fauna
Informational resource on popular plants/flowers used by PFAs:
Welcome to the resource page for the exhibition Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989.
Please let us know of any useful resources we can post here.
Leslie Ureña’s exhibition lecture on March 7:
Shape of Time Curator Lecture 3.7.24
Mia Press Release: Minneapolis Institute of Art Explores complex array of Contemporary Korean Art in New Exhibition
Korean History with Dr. Frank Chance on March 19:
Video of Korean History lecture
Presentation slides:
Korean History Overview Slide List
Video, Cultural Fluency Training with Mia Front of House Staff:
Pronunciation Guide with Jung Sook Wendeborn
Shape of Time pronunciation session with Jung Wendeborn
Teachers Guide by Bridget Gallagher-Larkin:
Shape of Time Teachers Guide_FINAL
List of heads for Michael Joo’s piece:
JOO, Michael_Heads from Headless_032924
Additional Information on Eulji Theatre:
JUNG, Yeondoo_Eulji Theatre_supplementary information
Final panels and labels:
Large Print:
GCA242231_SoT_LargePrintLabels V1
Final checklist:
SoT at Mia_Checklist_03072024 final
Exhibition layout:
(to come)
Content resources
From your colleague Cara Richardson, Memory of the Dead and Responsibility of the Living : Noh Suntag’s Forgetting Machines (2006-2007)
An article about the exhibition: Craft and Stone, Korea’s Artistic Odyssey from 1989 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
From your colleague Margie Crone, more information about Kyeok Kim, on Instagram video
From your colleague Margie Crone, an Instagram post on artist Minouk Lim: Minouk Lim info on canes
From Hyperallergic, a review and information on artist Minouk Lim: Stories That Need to Be Told.
Minouk Lim article: South Korean Artist Minouk Lim Talks About Her Creative Practice And Being Part Of Para Site’s ‘Curtain’
Kyungah Ham, An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch
Do Ho Suh, from Art 21: “Some/One” and the Korean Military
Ju Se-kyun: Instagram post from the PMA
Ju Se-kyun: New Grammar of Representation to Shed Determined Representations
From your colleague Margie Crone, a video of Korean performance using mats, in connection to Suki Seokyeong Kang’s works: Traditional Korean Performance Story Ep.13 춘앵무 (Chunaengmu)
Suki Seokyeong Kang: A conversation in Ocula
From Frieze: Suki Seokyeong Kang’s All-Enveloping Landscape
From your colleague Jung, the dance performed for Suki Seokyeong KANG’s artwork.
Also from Jung, a Korean article with photos of the mat.
From K-Art Now: Artist Son Donghyun, From Traditional Portraits of Contemporary Figures to Studying Korean Paper in the Spirit of Traditional Korean Landscape Painters
Article on Donghyun Son: Portraits of a pop artist called Jacko
Interview : Yoo Eui Jeong, céramiste (you need to translate the website to English)
Interview (includes the piece Headless): MICHAEL JOO
DAM Blog post, includes info on Michael Joo work: Art that Speaks to Race, Gender, Climate & Other Current Issues
Article: SANG HEE YUN–BEWARE LACQUER
Sang-hee Yun: ‘Ottchil’ artist reshaping Korean craft with modern twists
Byron Kim, Synecdoche, 1991-present: National Gallery of Art label
Byron Kim: Art History Perspectives on Synecdoche
Heinkuhn OH: Left Face
Heinkuhn Oh bio and other information from Korean Artist Project
From your colleague Jung Wendeborn, a video of students performing the national gymnastics.
Context resources
From your colleague Margie Crone, an article on the popularization of Korean culture:
The “Korean Wave” and the Expansion of South Korean Culture
Portraits of Korean Kings: Rare portraits provide a peek at kings
From your colleague Martha Bordwell, her memoir, Missing Mothers, is in part about Korean adoption. She has also published some articles in the Korean Quarterly. Her book is available through online retailers, or you can reach out to Martha for it, too.
From your colleague Deb Baumer, info on a Korean exhibition running now at the Hammer Museum
Here are the labels and panels from the exhibition Year of the Dragon in the Cargill Gallery:
Exhibition labels and panels:
GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2
GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL
GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL
Curator Casey Riley’s talk:
Lecture with Bob Cozzolino and Jill Ahlberg Yohe:
Reimagining Native/American Art
The slides are too big to post, but see the checklist for the artworks.
The checklist:
Reimagining Native and American art_Checklist April 12 2023.docx
Here is the feedback form to use, if you receive visitor reactions or comments within the exhibition:
The exhibition runs until May 27, 2024.
Here is the video of our session with Curator Andreas Marks, on the Root Collection ceramics, from 10.10.23
As we gather exhibition resources for guides, we will post here. If you come across any resources that are helpful in preparing for tours, please let Kara or Debbi know, and we will add those.
Curator lecture:
Slides from lecture:
In Our Hands_ Guide Training Oct2023
Curatorial lecture on photographic processes:
Photo processes and techniques 11.7.23
Cultural fluency and logistics training on 10.25.23:
cultural fluency and logistics 10.25.23
Slides from cultural fluency/logistics session, includes Native relations statements:
In Our Hands cultural fluency 10.25.23
Teacher’s Guide:
Final labels:
CGA242010_G255_IOH_Deck_Labels_V3
GCA242110_IOH_BarryPottle_Schematic_Label
Final panels:
IOH_Intro_Entrance_Texts_FINAL
Final layout:
to come
IOH themes and concepts guide discussion:
Summary of themes and concepts
Audio guide transcript:
In Our Hands_ Audio Guide, transcript, all stops
Transcript of all videos in the exhibition:
In Our Hands_ Video transcripts, all videos
Virtual tour, with speaker notes, by Marne Zafar:
In Our Hands virtual tour_A_KZ_Marne Z (1) notes
Self-guided tour of queer artists represented in IOH, by Nora Stewart:
PBS documentary:
The American Buffalo by Ken Burns
From the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco:
Alaska Native Art: These videos are part of an immersive online experience developed with the Alaska Native Heritage Center.
Exhibition Programming and Logistics:
Pronunciation Guide:
Native Pronunciation Guide_IOH
Information on Virgil Ortiz (15 minute mark of video)
Fall issue of Ramsey County History, focused on Dakhóta culture and language:
RCHS-History-Fall-2023_Full-Issue_Web
From Elizabeth Winga, check out For the People at the Guthrie through Nov. 12 is a moving experience with humor that parallels in execution & content with In Our Hands – collaboration, decolonization, Roya Taylor & more!
From your colleague Kay Miller, some resources:
James Luna and Wendy Red Star are featured: Rebodying Stereotypes: Contemporary Indigenous Artists and the Body
Tom Jones Zeroes in on Ho-Chunk Visibility
Will Wilson’s Portraits of Survivance
and Talk – The Arnold and Augusta Newman Lecture Series: Will Wilson
Website for HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFEDERACY, in particular the article on the influence on democracy.
Website for Cayuga Nation
And Jolene Rickard on the Women’s Nomination Belt
Article by Lucy Lippard, Esthetic Sovereignty
Meet the Artist: Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo)
From your colleague, Kate Christianson:
From your colleague, Nancy Kelly:
Parker McKenzie student photos
From your colleague Elizabeth Winga,
Excellent interview last March of Henry Payer, Jr., a[MUSE] II: In the Studio: Henry Payer, Jr.
Here are some resources to learn about Jim Denomie and our exhibition, The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie.
Lecture by Nicole Soukup:
Curator lecture on The Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie
Video playing in the exhibition:
The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie video
Here is the exhibition page, also with the video from the exhibition:
The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie
This is the resource page for the summer 2023 exhibition ReVisión: Art in the Americas. “Ancient and contemporary artworks help us connect to land, people, and place in this exhibition from the Denver Art Museum’s Ancient and Latin American collections.”
July 1, 2023 – September 17, 2023 (Touring July 11 to September 10)
Panels:
ReV_Panels_Subpanels_AllSections
Labels:
(These are final as they will appear on the wall and cases. Note that the Mia objects in the exhibition are separated in the labels and are at the end of this PDF.)
These are labels inserted into the checklists:
FINAL ReVision Labels_Mia objects
Exhibition fact sheet:
Curator Lecture:
PowerPoint lecture slides:
Here are the checklists from DAM and from Mia additions:
Here is the layout:
To come
PDFs of the photo props:
Photos for ReVision tours_ Map of Latin America
Photos for ReVision tours_ Cochineal
Photos for ReVision tours_ Tossin
Photos for ReVision tours_ Ceiba and Quetzal
Photos for ReVision tours_ Potosi
Photos for ReVision tours_ Templo Mayor model (1)
Photos for ReVision tours_ Contemporary artists
For family-friendly or youth tours, a resource list. This link takes you to a Google Doc, and you can download a PDF of it. Please feel free to add any ideas or experiences to the document:
Family-friendly artworks in ReVisión
Various support articles from staff and guides:
Additional resources from Rafael on Latin American history
StarTribune article: Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest
For an overview of ancient and colonial Americas, check out the SmartHistory unit: The Americas to 1900 . This includes various articles on ancient Mesoamerican cultures, ancient Andean cultures, South American (1500-1800), and Latin American art (1800-1900).
Article about Clarissa Tossin. Encontro das Águas [Meeting of Waters/Encuentro de las aguas], 2016. From JOAN Gallery (link here)
Cochineal dye, Video: Cochineal Bugs Create Red Dye: A Moment in Science
Smarthistory: Cochineal
(Short video) Nature by Design: Cochineal | Gloria Cortina
Smarthistory: Featherwork (from Mesoamerica)
From the Library of Congress: For Love, War, and Tribute: Featherwork in the Early Americas
From Hyperallergic: Plumage of the Saints: Aztec Feather Art in the Age of Colonialism
A video on Carlos Cruz-Diez, What is a Physichromie? | Carlos Cruz-Diez
From ArtNews: How I Made This: Sandy Rodriguez’s Pigments from Indigenous History
Inscription of Rafael Ochoa: Painters of African Descent in Colonial Spanish America
From the Met Museum: Gold in the Ancient Americas
Information on the painting of the Cerro Rico, Potosi.
BOLIVAR’S PLATTER: LA BANDEJA DE BOLÍVAR (video)
Artist profile: Sandy Rodriguez, LA Times, How artist Sandy Rodriguez tells today’s fraught immigration story with pre-Columbian painting tools
Video showing Chiachio and Gianonne embroidering and discussing their work.
An article from the Getty on Sandy Rodriguez: Unearthing the Secrets of Color
Video about Clarissa Tossin and her artwork, 7 minute mark, Meeting of the Waters: Encontro das Águas (Meeting of Waters) | Clarissa Tossin || Radcliffe Institute
Sandy Rodriguez, podcast: “From Invasive Others Toward Embracing Each Other” (discusses her codex, 9 minute mark)
CAA review of ReVision in Denver
From The Cornell Lab: What Is The Essence Of Iridescence? Ask A Hummingbird
Online article on corn paste sculptures: God figures made of corn stalk paste
Also an article on corn pith sculptures from Smarthistory
Brief Video: Sebastião Salgado on ‘Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil’
Longer interview: pedro reyes + carla fernández on practice and personal life for friedman benda’s “design in dialogue”
Serpent in St. John’s cup (featherwork): St. John with Serpent in Chalice
A modern use of the quipu profiled on PBS: Brief But Spectacular PBS July 19, 2023
Virgin of the Mountain, Potosi: Virgin of the Mountain of Potosi, 1720
Recipe for cochineal dye/instructions: Pretty in Pink
Catalog from Gloria Cortina, with more pictures of the inside of the Bullet cabinet:
Information packet with Gallery labels:
Video of in-gallery training with Andreas Marks:
To sign up or review Caravaggio Ask Me shifts, here is a link to the sign-up:
Sign up sheet for Caravaggio Ask Me shifts
Here are the videos of Rachel McGarry’s in-gallery training on 4.18.23:
Here are the panels:
CUR231906_Caravaggio_Intro_Texts_V3
Here are the labels:
EUR231905_Caravaggio_Wall_Labels_V4
Additional collection connections:
Essential Characteristics of Baroque Art
Council of Trent and Catholic Reformation
Research resources:
Barberini: CARAVAGGIO (MICHELANGELO MERISI) (MILAN 1571 – PORTO ERCOLE 1610): Judith Beheading Holofernes
Biography of Caravaggio on The Art Story
Biography from the National Gallery, UK
From Khan Academy, a great article that discusses his influence: Caravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century Europe
The story of Beatrice Cenci (mentioned by Rachel)
Sebastian Schütze, Caravaggio: The Complete Works (Taschen)
Catherine Puglisi, Caravaggio (Phaidon)
Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
Guilio Mancini, Lives of Caravaggio (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Rosella Vodret, ed., Caravaggio The Complete Works (Silvana Editoriale)
Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred & Profane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Related books of interest:
Letizia Treves, Artemisia (National Gallery of London)
Mary D. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi (Princeton University Press)
Ludovica Rambelli’s Malatheatre Theater Company Caravaggio staging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeyulbiB0A&t=11s
Here is the recording of the training with curator Nicole LaBouff, in her exhibition in Gallery 281, In the Making: Modern and Contemporary Fiber Art New Acquisitions:
This is our resource page for the Special Exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes
Exhibition runs: March 4, 2023 – May 21, 2023
Stop and Chat station scheduled Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 3 PM, March 9 to May 14, 2023.
Stop and Chat training video 3.7.23
Stop and Chat Eternal Offerings (1)
This show does not have labels or panels inside. Here are the three panels at the entrance to the show:
Here are the poems shown on the walls in the intro gallery:
Eternal Offerings info sheet:
Eternal Offerings Info Sheet for guides
Curator Yang Liu’s lecture on 2.16.23:
Eternal Offerings exhibition lecture
Exhibition Guide, describing the different rooms within the exhibition:
Exhibition checklist:
This is online, available at this link.
Gallery layout:
See exhibition guide for description of layout.
Didactics for the Stop and Chat:
Timeline:
Map of Bronze Age China:
Typology of bronzes and handout with information:
Vessel_Types_Diagram_45x36_ChineseTransl
Chinese Bronze Vessels with image
Stop and Chat information
Touch Props on Eternal Offerings Stop and Chat (1)
Digital resource page for the exhibition:
Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes
Collection of 3D scans of Mia bronzes:
Chinese ritual bells (video provided by Yang Liu):
Bianzhong of Marquis Yi – Traditional Chinese Bells
Previous video on Mia’s Bronzes:
Chinese Bronzes, Of Us and Art: The 100 Videos Project, Episode 19
Information about Chinese art is posted in two locations on the guide website:
China Art Cart Manual and training (2017)
Class sessions on Chinese art from 20015/2016:
Ancient China/Japan, October 2015
Han to Tang China, January 2016
Resources shared by Mia Educators:
From Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (MMA):
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shzh/hd_shzh.htm
Orientations article by Yang Liu:
Yang Liu_Eternal Offerings_03Feb23
Orientations article by Matthew Welch:
Matthew Welch_Eternal Offerings_06Feb23
From the National Museum of Asian Art:
From the Metropolitan Museum, an exhibition guide:
Three short videos on bronze casting, good animations to illustrate casting process to visitors:
Harvard Online, shows how engravings achieved: How ancient Chinese bronzes were created
Asian Art Museum, better animation showing bronze flowing in: Casting Bronze Vessels: The Piece-mold Process
Art Institute of Chicago, shows how final vessel was golden: Mirroring China’s Past: The Piece Mold Process
From Khan Academy:
Shang Dynasty, an introduction (with bronzes discussed in a couple articles)
From China.org.cn, some information on foods/drink prepared in the bronze vessels:
3,000 year old food for thought
Resources shared by guides:
From Mingjen Chen: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn
From your colleague Manju Parikh, a short video on the taotie from PBS.