Past Exhibitions

Art in Bloom 2022 resource page

This is the resource page for 2022 Art in Bloom.

Lynn Dunlap’s plant and flower database, various updates:

AIB plant materials 1_1_2020 update

AIB plant materials 6_13_2018 update

Artists statements from PFAs:

2022 AIB PFA Inspiration for Guides report (version 1)

From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert, some helpful tips for touring Art in Bloom:

AIB Tour guides — Orientation, Comments by Floral artists, Arrangements .docx

Ikebana:

IKEBANA Basics

We will also offer a virtual public tour each day at 2 pm. Registration is open on the Mia website and required for both virtual and in-person public tours. All tours are free.

 

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art

This is our exhibition resource page. We will be adding materials to this for touring guides as those materials become available. Please email Kara any additional resources you find which could help prepare for touring this exhibition, and we will add to this page.

Guides touring the exhibition:

Supernatural guides_final list (1)

Bob Cozzolino’s lecture on February 8:

Supernatural America Training 02.08.22

And here is the chat: Supernatural America training chat 02.08.22

Bob Cozzolino’s presentation slides:

guide training Supernatural

Gallery map of exhibition:

SA_Exhibition layout

Panels and Labels (on one PDF):

SA_Labels_2-16-22_Combined

Audio guide transcript:

to come

Front-of-house cultural fluency training (and note, the video requires this password to access it: VET#2.14:

Supernatural America cultural fluency training

 

Guide-recommended articles and other resources:

Supernatural America: The Paranormal In American Art

Ivan Albright biography by Bob Cozzolino

A research page on Macena Barton and her portrait of José Mojica 1928, from Rose Stanley-Gilbert: Portrait of José Mojica 1928 by Macena Barton 2018.69.1

A research page on Renee Stout, from Helen Leslie: Renee-Stout-Crossroads-extended

From Rose Stanley-Gilbert, the film with Agatha Wojciechowsky, from the American Folk Art Museum (and includes a biography): Agatha Wojciechowsky film

Also from Rose, some additional biographical information:

Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986)

From the Collection of Mediumistic Art: Agatha Wojciechowsky

Mediumistic Art: Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986) 

Information from Marne Zara on Chholing Taha: Info on artist Chholing Taha_

From Grace Goggin, an article: Artist Fernando Orellana is making work for a very specific audience: the recently departed. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism and ghost folklore, Orellana’s machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed a chance to interact with the world they left. Art for Ghosts

When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration

Welcome to the exhibition page for When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration. Here is the introductory text on artsmia.org:

“When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration” considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of people today. The world is currently witnessing the highest levels of movement on record—the United Nations estimates that one out of every seven people in the world is an international or internal migrant who moves by choice or by force, with great success or great struggle.

Through artworks made since 2000 by 20 artists from countries such as Colombia, Cuba, France, India, Iraq, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this exhibition highlights diverse artistic responses to migration. Ranging from personal accounts to poetic meditations, the artwork features a range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, painting, and video.”

Here are the FINAL labels and panels:

WHWLYS_Labels_02.12.20 final

Art and Migration text for Docents and Guides

Here is the gallery map (though the smaller flag of Pangea (Tania Bruguera) is not included in the exhibition:

Gallery map_A&M

Teacher’s Guide and Deep Dive (same content):

Mia_WHWLYS_TeacherGuide_Final

Mia_WHWLYS_Guide_DeepDive_Final

Here is a link to the video of Gabe Ritter’s lecture on February 6:

Art & Migration lecture video

Gabe’s PowerPoint:

GRitter_ArtMigration_TRAINING

(Concerning the map Gabe used in discussing Kallat’s Woven Chronicle, here is the map’s key:

RED: Industrialized (Manufacturing and services) High income economies
ORANGE: Newly industrialized (Manufacturing and mining) Upper middle income economies
BLUE: Industrializing (Mining industry–oil and mineral) Upper middle income economies
BROWN: Industrializing (Agriculture predominates) Middle income economies
YELLOW: Agricultural, low income economies
GREY: No data

Additional labels and curatorial information from Gabe Ritter:

Art and Migration DOCENT MATERIAL1 Mia specific installations

GRitter_Migration_AllStaff_notes

Ritter_Curatorial Statement Feb. 6_TO EDITOR

Materials from the February 17 FOH cultural fluency training:

VIDEO of the February 17 cultural fluency training

Jack DeWaard PPT slides Feb. 17

Art and Migration VETT PPT 2-16-20

Art and Migration Fact Sheet CONDENSED

Top 5 FAQ WHWLYS

From our Learning Innovation Fellow Tamira Amin, her article on How climate change and colonialism are spurring mass migration: The violent roots of today’s unprecedented displacement.

Local and national media on exhibition

KARE 11 interview with Gabe Ritter about the Ai Weiwei installation (video): Minneapolis Art Institute’s latest exhibit features thousands of life jackets worn by refugees

From Bruce Robbins, an article in the Pioneer Press: Thousands of life jackets…

Review of exhibition in the Strib: For exhibit about migration, Minneapolis museum wraps its white facade in colorful life jackets
Minneapolis Institute of Art opens a provocative exhibition.

A PBS Newshour story on the exhibition while in Boston from your colleague Barb Horlbeck: Memory, meaning and mortality at heart of migration exhibit 

Peer suggestions for additional information:

From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a book recommendation: Author Isabel Allende’s new book – Long Petal to the Sea tells an engrossing story of Refugees fleeing Spain and then Chile starting 80 years ago. She has been interviewed on PBS News hour but this one from a recent Amanpour show is longer and more in depth.

https://www.pbs.org/video/isabel-allende-immigration-loss-and-her-new-novel-cyzxrz/

From Shelly McGinnis, a really great conversation about immigrants & belonging: Flyover 2020: What does patriotism mean? (MPR News)

From Rose Stanley-Gilbert: an overview of the history of US Migration as background for touring. I thought some might want to pick and choose a few facts to give historical perspectives to their tour. This is pretty concise for a complex subject: Immigration Timeline

From Kathleen Steiger: This was just rebroadcast and it is great. A history of Landscape Painting starting with 10th century Chinese works and including Misrach (in the Migration exhibit). (TPT link here)

From many of you, an excellent interview with Kerri Miller: Author Dina Nayeri on breaking down stereotypes of the refugee experience

From Lynn Dunlap, a plethora of video resources!

Ai Weiwei drifting – art, awareness and the refugee crisis | DW Documentary

Carlos Motta – The Crossing

Artist Talk: Richard Mosse

Opening Exhibition Lecture » Richard Misrach on Border Cantos

Artists Take On Global Migration: ‘It’s Hard To Watch And It’s Hard Not To Watch’ (Kader Attia)

Rineke Dijkstra: Almerisa Series

From Margo Squire, a story on the current conditions on Lesbos: Migrants wait in bread lines while tourists dine on grilled octopus

From Manju Parikh, a POV public TV documentary (available in the library system): ” Well Founded Fear”. It was shown on POV (Point of View) series on Public TV on 2000. Description on DVD: (Immigrants apply for political asylum with the I.N.S. in pre-9/11 America.)

From Jan Lysen, What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 5 charts

and Measuring illegal immigration: How Pew Research Center counts unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo

From the curatorial department, here are training materials for the new exhibition “Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo,” up from December 14, 2019 – December 6, 2020 in Gallery 226, 227, 237.

Docent Training_Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo, Rotation 1, Dec. 2020

From the artsmia website:

“Originally a painter trained in oil, Hagiwara Hideo (1913–2007) became ill with tuberculosis and turned to printmaking in 1954. From the start his prints were of an abstract nature, and for 50 years he was a constant innovator in his choice of motifs, style, and technique. This first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Hagiwara’s work showcases his enormous versatility. More than 30 prints span his early work of the 1950s to the Greek Mythology series in 1965, and from his celebrated series of novel views of Mount Fuji in the 1980s and 1990s to his enormously laborious prints of the Face, Memory, and Mandala series.

This exhibition will be presented in two rotations: Rotation 1: December 14, 2019 – June 21, 2020. Rotation 2: June 27, 2020 – December 6, 2020.”

Color Woodcuts in the Arts and Crafts Era

Final panels for the exhibition:

Final panels_Color_Woodcuts_G315_G316

Final Labels:

Labels Part 1

Labels Part II

From artsmia.org:

September 14, 2019 – March 22, 2020
Gallery 315 and 316
Free Exhibition
Color woodcuts enjoyed a revival during the Arts and Crafts movement, whose leaders believed that one antidote to rampant mechanization was a return to handcraft. Artists in the early 20th century thus began carving, inking, and printing each impression by hand. Though demanding, this highly personal process revealed the direct interaction between artists and their materials.

This directness is one of the pleasures of the 80 or so color woodcuts in this exhibition. Most were recently acquired by Mia, and most come from the United States, Britain, and German-speaking countries. A remarkable number—nearly half—are by women. Many works also reveal an interest in the tenets of Japanese design. The delights include Margaret Patterson’s bouquets, Pedro de Lemos’s windblown trees, Frances Gearhart’s paeans to the California coast, Eliza Draper Gardiner’s childhood scenes, and Frank Morley Fletcher’s romantic landscapes.

Artists Respond and Artists Reflect

Welcome to the exhibition resource page for Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 and Artists Reflect: Contemporary Views on the American War.

Here are the resources common to both of these exhibitions. 

Lecture on the exhibitions by Robert Cozzolino:

PPT of exhibition lecture:

VIDEO from the Cultural Fluency session on September 23, with the veterans’ perspectives:

PowerPoint from cultural fluency session on 9.23.19, with microaggressions:

VIDEOS of the Teach-In, held on September 28, with artist interviews:

Here are the labels for Artists Respond:

Here are the panels for Artists Respond (no panels are available for Artists Reflect):

Here is a link to the timeline for Artists Respond:

Here are the labels for Artists Reflect:

Here is the timeline for Artists Reflect:

Here is the exhibition checklist for Artists Reflect:

Here is the exhibition layout:

From your colleague Manju Parikh: Eight Writers Share Their Must-Read Books from Vietnam and the Diaspora

Bob Cozzolino’s blog story: Why the Vietnam War still matters: Connecting the art of the 1960s to our time

Here is the Teacher’s Guide for the exhibition, written for Grades 6-12:

Mia_ArtistsRespond_Teachers_Guide_V2

From your colleague Susan Arndt, a recommendation for the podcast Saigon 1965 from Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History series.

From your colleague Marne Zafar, books about the Native and African-American experiences in Vietnam.

1) Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War
2) Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War – An Oral History

From your colleague Emily Shapiro, a NYT article on artist Hans Haacke: Hans Haacke, Firebrand, Gets His First U.S. Survey in 33 Years

From your colleague Margie Crone, a YouTube video with a choice of the Top 5 Vietnam War songs. As those touring know, a Spotify playlist is also available for visitors to listen to as they go through the exhibition. Here is a Mia blog post on how and why the playlist came to be, written by Curatorial Fellow Esther Callahan: How we created a playlist for “Artists Respond,” an exhibition of Vietnam War-era art

From your colleague Joy Yoshikawa, a good podcast series: The American War

From your colleague Manju PArikh,, an article on Hans Haacke: Hans Haacke, at the New Museum, Takes No Prisoners

From your colleague Jane Mackenzie, a great podcast on MPR about the soldiers who opposed the Viet Nam War: Soldiers for Peace

Resources specifically for Artists Reflect: Contemporary Views on the American War. 

This is an excellent TPT documentary on the Hmong involvement in the secret war run in Laos by the CIA:

America’s Secret War: Minnesota Remembers Vietnam

Another  informative PBS video: The Hmong and the Secret War

Information on Cy Thao’s series of 50 paintings (16 of which are on display: 1, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 35, 38, 40, 43, 45, 48, and 50): Cy Thao – U of M 18

Additional information on Cy Thao from your colleague Joy Yoshikawa:

Cy Thao Hmong Migration

From Curator Bob Cozzolino, some websites with more information on artists within Artists Reflect:

HUONG NGO AND HONG-AN TRUONG

DINH Q. LÊ

An-My Lê

Cy Thao

TUAN ANDREW NGUYEN

PAO HOUA HER

For more information on our local Southeast Asian community, check out the SEAD Project website:

The SEAD Project started in 2011 with the vision of a group of Southeast Asians who wanted to not only connect with their roots and heritage but to think bigger and beyond preservation. We’re growing a diaspora movement.

Mia blog post: The American War: “Artists Reflect” recounts the Vietnam War from the Southeast Asian perspective

Pronunciation of artists’ names:

Name pronunciation_Artists Reflect

 

 

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

Welcome to the exhibition resource page for Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.

Below is the video link to the training lecture on May 2/4:

HoOP Training May 2

Here is a PDF of the gallery layout, as of May 2, 2019:

HoOP 24×36 050219

Here are the gallery panels and labels for objects:

AAA190008_HOOP_Panels_Themes_26x26

AAA190008_HOOP_Panel_Intro_54x34

HOOP_Wall_Labels_17May19

HOOP_Deck_Labels_16May19

Regarding the multi-linguistic approach, here is a brief story by Juline Chevalier, Head of Interpretation and Participatory Experiences:

Why We Translated an Exhibition’s Labels Into Dozens of Native Languages

Pronunciation Guide:

Native Nations pronun guide

Here is the audioguide transcript:

TRANSCRIPT HOOP AUDIOGUIDE

Here is a FAQ developed for VE volunteers, with lots of great information on the exhibition:

Hearts of Our People FAQ

These three documents were given to the VE volunteers and staff who are working the exhibition, with some top FAQs and also information on microaggressions to be aware of while giving tours or when you are within the galleries:

FAQ Top Five

Microaggression HoOP2

Say this, not that

Here is the special edition of the Docent Muse, devoted to the exhibition:

HOOP Muse May, 2019

From your colleague Angie Seutter: I heard a great interview with Dakota Hoska on KFAI, along with two MIA guides. They talk a lot about HOOP and the Native American collection in general. It starts around the 75 minute and runs until the end mark of 120 minutes.

From your colleague Elizabeth Winga, an article on the origins of the jingle dress:
And from Kathleen Steiger, an additional article on the Jingle Dress:
From your colleague Margi Crone: TPT will be airing original productions that share stories of Native Americans in Minnesota. This collection of programs and events gives everyone the opportunity to learn more about themselves, their neighbors and their world.
An article on Rose B. Simpson, and her El Camino:
An article written by Rose B. Simpson, discussing her journey to becoming an artist:
And here are some fun facts directly from the artist Rose Simpson:
From Ann Isaacson, a resource on trauma from Native Hope:
Various articles from national publications on the exhibition:
Ian Frazier, Staying Native. Review of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
by David Treuer, in New York Review of Books. HoOP artist Joan Hill’s work is embedded in the article.
Here is the Native community’s video on visiting Mia to see HoOP:
Mia’s Teachers’ Guide:

The Art of High Style: Minnesota Couture

The Art of High Style: Minnesota Couture 1880–1914 will be opening May 16, 2019 – August 4, 2019.

Explore Minnesota’s little-known historic couture fashion industry and learn about the female artisans who led it. Minneapolis and St. Paul designers had strong ties with metropolitan Europe, particularly Paris and London, with respect to training, design trends, and fashion fabrics. Minnesota’s couturiers satisfied more than just vanity; they offered proof that a refined lifestyle was possible in a young, developing state. Featured in this installation will be historic dress from the Minnesota Historical Society collection—most never displayed before—set in context with paintings and works on paper from Mia’s collection.

Here are the panels from this exhibition:

MN Couture Panel and Wall Text_D&E EDIT

Here are the exhibition labels:

MN Couture Label Text_CurLI_D&E EDIT

Following are some online resources from artsmia and the Minnesota Historical Society:

(includes links to the collections within the article)
Nicole LaBouff has also provided a photograph of the label inside JJ Hill’s suit, as requested from the gallery training session:
Here are some additional research resources and information from Josie Owens:
From Emily Post’s column: Hats Off! Hat Etiquette for Everyone
From the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco: Corsets in Context: A History
And finally, a fun little video to answer one question which came up in the session on women’s dress:

Mapping Black Identities training and resource page

Mapping Black Identities Rotation 2 Material 2020 – Artist information

Here is a link to the recorded training session by the Contemporary curatorial staff on Mapping Black Identities,on February 7, 2019:

Mapping Black Identities

Please note that at the start, the sound quality is poor. If you are able to listen to it with headphones, turned to the highest, you should be able to hear it.

Here is the lecture PowerPoint:

Mapping Black Identities Presentation_training pdf

Here is the updated checklist of objects in the exhibition:

Mapping Black Identities Checklist

Here are the labels for the objects:

Mapping Black Identities Labels PDF – Press

Here are resources on the films showing in the Black Box:

Mapping Black Identities- 3 Films Presentation Notes and Resources

This is a MPR story on the exhibition:

Black Identities exhibit marks cultural shift for Mia

From our curatorial staff comes a wealth of research documents on the artists represented in the exhibition, linked here below:

Charles Gaines Supporting Docs

Deana Lawson Supporting Docs

Delita Martin Supporting Docs

Elizabeth Catlett Supporting Docs

Emma Amos Supporting Docs

Frank Bowling Supporting Docs

Igshaan Adams Supporting Docs

J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere Supporting Docs

Joe Overstreet Supporting Docs

Julie Mehretu Supporting Docs

Kerry James Marshall Supporting Docs

Kevin Beasley Additional Supporting Doc_ Black Relief

Kevin Beasley Supporting Docs

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Supporting Docs

MBI Presentation Training Research Content

Museums are now clamoring for Frank Bowling’s work

From your colleague Jean London, an article on Frank Bowling’s work:

Non-Synchronous Cartographies: Frank Bowling’s Map Paintings

Please note there is a separate post for the rotation, with a video of that gallery training on January 30, 2020. Here is a link to that page.

 

 

Growing the Collection – Label Copy and Resources

LABEL COPY_Growing the Collection

Here are a couple more points of information, coming from the pop-up gallery training:

Samuel Levi Jones deconstructed medical text for his Agent Orange collage.

And the Ray Johnson Estate had done a 4-page paper on Hat with Red Eyes. The PDF is attached:

Hat with Red Eyes – Ray Johnson – from Dennis Michael Jon

Here is a New Yorker article on Lonnie Holley:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/lonnie-holleys-glorious-improvisations

Here is some information on artist Thornton Dial from Dennis Michael Jon:

here’s a link to an article that mentions that Dial was raised by a household of women. My comments on his reverence for woman and their roles in black families and the community were likely drawn from various sources.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2056700,00.html
Here’s a long quote from Dial that I found on the Souls Grown Deep Foundation’s website. He doesn’t mention being raised by women in this text, but does talk about his personal values and shares his thoughts on the importance of family.
http://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/thornton-dial
Also, see text passages on the subject of the tiger and the woman in Dial’s art beginning on page 145 of “Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper.”
https://books.google.com/books?id=zLfqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=thorton+dial+symbolism+women&source=bl&ots=nnfDOwbyA6&sig=ACfU3U33HFpz5JT3tNkaIOGenxCEZAyfhw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_9KfOs4LhAhUG1qwKHRhPDXcQ6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=thorton%20dial%20symbolism%20women&f=false

Love Affairs: The Tale of Genji gallery rotations part 2

 Love Affairs: The Tale of Genji in Japanese Art is going to have Rotation 2. Here are training materials for the Rotation:

JKA Docent Training Winter 2018 Genji Rotation 2

UPDATE: Message from Curator Aaron Rio, on 11/28/18:

Dear docents and guides,

I hope you have been enjoying “Love Affairs: The Tale of Genji in Japanese Art” and have had a chance to review the packet of information for part 2 of this exhibition, which opens this Saturday. For reasons that could not be avoided, the following two works from part 1 will stay on view for the duration of the exhibition. Both have been very popular and well utilized on tours, so I am sure this will make some of you very happy.

Gallery 253, 2013.29.14.1-2, Scenes from The Tale of Genji in the Four Seasons
Gallery 237, 2013.29.374, Wedding robe with design of standing curtains, maple trees, and large drum

This means that the following two works slated to appear in part 2 will not be exhibited after all:

Gallery 253, 2013.29.301.1-2, Scenes from The Tale of Genji on Silver Ground
Gallery 237, 2013.29.1140, Wedding robe with design of carriages and bridges

As always, please let me know if you have any questions. I also hope to see many of you at the Genji-related talks here at Mia on the morning of December 8.

Warm wishes,
Aaron