Programs


October 22 and 25, 2024 class

Here is a link to the recording:

Week 2 school guide class

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

Types of Open-Ended Questions

 


October 15 and 18, 2024 class

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.

VTS-elements_Master-1

VTS_at_a_Glance-Adapted

 

 

 


July 2024 in-gallery public tour resource page

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