We did not have a recording or slides this week as we did group presentations.
Here are the instructions for the individual gallery presentation:
General Guidelines for Individual Gallery Presentations FY25 school guides
Sign up sheet to come!
Per request, we also have a google doc, link here, where you can share your ideas for props and other resources.
Here is a link to the recording:
Here are the presentation slides (note that the PDF has the links for the resource pages):
11.5 and 11.8 School guide class (2)
Here were the handouts given in class:
Gender Inclusive Language and Gender Pronouns 101 (1)
Tips for Group Management 2024-2025
Also, a great resource on gender is the National Geographic special edition, Gender Revolution
Here is the recording of our Week 3 class:
Here are the presentation slides:
10.29 and 11.1 School Guide class (2)
Here are the small groups for class:
And here are the small group presentation instructions:
Group Presentation Assignment_ School Guides FY25 training
This is the handout of the topic tour (Highlights Tour) route map:
Here is a link to the recording:
Part 2 (just a couple more minutes) Week 2 guide class
Here is a link to the slides:
10.22 and 10.25 School Guide class (1)
Readings for next week:
Look at the Tour Toolkit, link here, and read the following brief sections under Tour Preparation:
Developing a Theme, Choice of Artworks, Key Ideas, Route Planning, Transitions, Developing Questions
Here are the readings for next week:
Approaches for Presentation to Grades K-6 Based on Age_Grade Characteristics (2)
Points to remember about using VTS
Stage-Development-and-Learning-Styles
We had a faulty camera, so we only have the slides from this Brown Bag session:
Here is a link to the slides:
10.15 and 10.18 School Guide class
and a link to the slides on the Highlights tour for K-5 students:
Highlights of Mia’s Collection Gr K-5_DH
We did not record the first class because of the focus on administrative materials.
Here is the Brief Syllabus:
FY25 Brief syllabus Mia school guide class (1)
Assignments and readings
Here is the Wayfinding assignment, due in 3 weeks (due Nov. 5/8)
School guides wayfinding 2024 (1)
Here are the readings for next week, on Visual Elements and Principles of Art, and VTS:
Visual Elements and Principles of Art
Also check out the reading on elements of art, with visuals, from Khan Academy, link here.
July Cross Currents: Summer Vacation! Take a break as works of art transport you on a trip around the world.
Gallery 203
Training with Curator Yang Liu on 6.27.24
Articles by Yang Liu:
Three_Eremitic_Pictures_and_a_Song_of_Despair
Fantastic_Mountains_Where_Man_Meets_Nature
Fantastic_Mountains_Chinese_Landscape_Painting
Essay from the Met: Landscape Painting in Chinese Art
From Khan Academy: Chinese landscape painting
From the Asian Art Museum: The Development of Landscape Painting in China through the Tang Dynasty (618-906) (in particular, note this statement: “In Chinese color theory, black contains all colors; thus theorists believe that people can conceive all colors in the various tones of ink.”
Lesson on Chinese landscape painting from Princeton, with some good questions under the “Lesson” heading: Chinese Landscape Painting during the Song Dynasty
Gallery 355
Worcester Art Museum Video: Matthias Waschek: Pierre Bonnard’s ‘Dining Room In The Country’
French Quarter magazine: Exploring the Intellectual Haven: The Legacy of Parisian Café Culture (Vuillard’s Place Saint-Augustin)
BBC Arts: The Pursuit of Paradise: Eight paintings tracing Paul Gauguin’s quest for the exotic in Tahiti
Gauguin, Tahitian Landscape (in /Art Adventure, People and Their Environments)
National Gallery of Art: Gauguin: Maker of Myth
Musee Giverny: Signac, the colors of water
PDF fact sheet on Salmon Fishers at Nesøya, 1891, by Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen: Eilif Peterssen – Laksefiskere på Nesøya (Salmon Fishers at Nesøya) – factsheet
Van Gogh, Olive Trees, ArtStory
Gallery 379 (Going on a road trip, boat ride, or scooter–in streamlined design)
Streamline Moderne: Speeding into the future!
From Wikipedia, a history of the Road Trip
From the Library of Congress blog: America on the Road: The Family Vacation by Car
Go on a road trip with the Tatra! Tatra 603 ad video (a later Tatra version, but good sense of how fast it could go, even in the countryside)
From Wikipedia: Tatra 87
Tatra ArtStory on artsmia.org
Classic Car Review: The Death Eaters, Chapter 1: Tatra T87
Skippy Racer Scooter history, with photos: 1938 ‘Skippy Racer’ Streamlined Scooter
Here is the recording:
Brown Bag for adult guides 5.15.24
Here are the slides (and note, there is a link to the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine online resource in the slides):
In this Brown Bag, we discussed engagement strategies for middle and high school students, as well as covered the new school program ‘Discovery Days” and re-energizing 11:15 tour groups. Here is the recording of the Brown Bag:
Here are the slides:
This Brown Bag gave an update on spring school tours and offered tips for behavior management in the galleries.
Here is the recording:
And here are the slides: