Current Exhibitions

Guide Training Package for Kondo Exhibition

Transcendent Clay: The Kondō Family’s Path of Porcelain Innovations

Mar. 1–Sep. 7, 2025; Galleries 251–253

 

Spanning almost a century of creativity, “Transcendent Clay” offers the opportunity to explore the interplay of tradition and innovation in Japanese ceramics through the achievements of the Kondō family in Kyoto. The legacy of porcelain-making began with Kondō Yūzō (1902–1985) in the 1930s and continued with his sons Yutaka (1932–1983) and Hiroshi (1936–2012), who broke free to pursue original, individual expressions. Ultimately it was the grandson Takahiro (born 1958) who emerged as the family’s greatest innovator by developing the secret technique of applying a “silver mist” (gintekisai) of metallic droplets to his modern forms.

This exhibition is based on Transcendent Clay/Kondo: A Century of Japanese Ceramic Art, originally presented by the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, guest curated by Joe Earle. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, whose generosity and passion brought this exhibition to life.

The Curatorial Department has created a training package that includes images and background information on the artwork featured in this exhibition. Please see the link below!

Kondō exhibition 2025 – Docent training package

Resources for Mary Sully: Native Modern

Exhibition page 

Mary Sully: Native Modern

Runs March 15, 2025 – September 21, 2025
Gallery 276

Talks at Mia

“Mary Sully: Native Modern” presented by Philip J. Deloria is Professor of History at Harvard University

March 16, 2025 at 2 PM

Tickets: https://new.artsmia.org/event/talk-mary-sully-native-modern

Videos

  1. “Mary Sully: A Reclamation,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/mary-sully, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 14, 2024

This is a great overview of Mary Sully–interview with her great nephew.

2. “Mary Sully and the Women’s Arts of the Great Plains,” YouTube, St. Louis Art Museum,
December 19, 2024. https://youtu.be/2Pt_1IZl4sU?feature=shared

The 2024 Donald Danforth Jr. Lecture on Native American Art was given by Philip J. Deloria, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History and the Chair of the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature at Harvard University

 

Newspaper Articles

Angeleti, Gabriella, “ The late Dakota artist Mary Sully in four key works at the Metropolitan Museum,” The Art Newspaper, August 24, 2025. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/26/dakota-artist-mary-sully-exhibition-metropolitan-museum

 

Pochoda, Elizabeth, “The Unexpected Art of Mary Sully,” The Magazine Antiques, February 24, 2020 https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/mary-sully-art/

 

Radsken, Jill, “A colorful figure,” The Harvard Gazette, July 11, 2019, 

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/07/in-sioux-aunts-work-historian-finds-art-on-fringes-of-modernism-tradition/

 

Pochoda, Elizabeth, “Mary Sully’s Astonishing Art Pictures American History through Indigenous Eyes,” The Nation, September 27, 2024. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mary-sully-native-american-artist-metropolitan/

Ahlberg-Yohe, Jill. “Mary Sully: Ahead of Her Time”. In Hearts of Our People. Exhibition catalogue. Organized by Mia, June 2019, p.103

 

Deloria, Phil. Becoming Mary Sully. Toward an American Indian Abstract. University of Washington Press, 2019. 

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Our resource page for all things Giants! Please share other materials you would like to post with Marina Moua, at mmoua@artsmia.org.

Exhibition lecture:

VIDEO 2.28.25

Exhibition lecture slides:

Giants Guide Lecture PwrPt

Exhibition Labels

Giants_Labels_V7_All

 

From the VET training on March 3, 2025:

Design PDF with the information on the textiles: GCA252694_GiantsCreativeDeck V7 (1)

Virtual Tour of Giants with Casey Riley (and password is artsmia to view the video):
https://vimeo.com/1062509647?ts=0&share=copy

Cultural Fluency Session moderated by Virajita Singh, with Rohan Preston, Marne Zafar, and Bobby Rogers (and password is artsmia to view the video):
https://vimeo.com/1062540367?ts=0&share=copy

 

 

Video of Giants, with the Deans:

Meet the Giants: Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Video: Inside Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz’s Oceanside Mansion | Open Door | Architectural Digest

The digital issue of Vanity Fair: The Secrets of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Museum-Ready Art Collection

 

Exhibition layout:

Giants_CD 5_3_as of 2024-12-18 (1)

 

Marne Zafar’s Giants’ tour

GIANTS The Dean Collection Marne UPD5 Mar2025

Addendum I: GIANTS Barkley L. Hendricks Landscapes Marne UPD6 Mar2025

Addendum II: Meleko Megosi Bio Details mz

Addendum III: Meleko Megosi, Bread, Butter and Power 

 

Research by Kay Miller

Meleko Megosi: Giants – Bread, Butter, and Power – Meleko Mokgosi (2)

 

Teacher’s Guide:

LIN252699_Giants_TeachersGuide V3 (2)

 

Articles and other resources, add to the peer resource Google Doc:

Please share other resources with each other in this Google Doc. If you find good artist profiles, etc., please include in the doc. This is arranged by the sections within the exhibition, noted on the tabs to the left.

 

 

At the Moulin Rouge, exhibition resource page

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:

Toulouse-Lautrec labels

Here are the panels:

Toulouse-Lautrec 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

Art in Bloom 2024

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:

2024_Kletter_AIB worksheet

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)

 

AIB tour sign up sheet

 

Link to AIB page on Mia website, with all events listed

 

Ikebana basics information:

IKEBANA Basics

 

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:

AIB plant materials 1_1_2020 update

Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989

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

Korean History Overview Slide List

 

Video, Cultural Fluency Training with Mia Front of House Staff:

Understanding Korean Culture

 

Pronunciation Guide with Jung Sook Wendeborn

Video of pronunciation guide

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

Article: Hyunsoo Woo Discusses the Impact and Influence Behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Korean Art Showcase

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

Yuni Kim Lang’s website

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 website

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