Programs

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

National Gallery of Art: Gauguin: Maker of Myth

Musee Giverny: Signac, the colors of water

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 ArtStories (to come: link is currently down)

Classic Car Review: The Death Eaters, Chapter 1: Tatra T87

Skippy Racer Scooter history, with photos: 1938 ‘Skippy Racer’ Streamlined Scooter

Brown Bag for adult guides on 5.15.24

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):

5.15.24 Brown Bag Adult Guides

Brown Bag for School Guides 04.16.24

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:

Brown bag 04.16.24

Here are the slides:

4.16.24 Brown Bag for School Tours

Brown Bag for School Guides, January 10, 2024

This Brown Bag gave an update on spring school tours and offered tips for behavior management in the galleries.

Here is the recording:

Brown Bag January 10 2024

And here are the slides:

1.10.24 Brown Bag for School Tours

Brown Bag: School Guides, Fall 2023

Here is our school guide Brown Bag from 9.27.23, with a focus on Art Adventure tours, upcoming gallery changes, and discussing nudity with students/chaperones:

Brown Bag school guides 09.27.23

Here is a PDF of the slides:

Brown Bag for School Guides_ AA tours 09.27.23 full

Guide-Organized Group Tour Reservation Procedure

Special Exhibition and Permanent Collection Private Tours

Please follow this procedure when you as a guide organize your own adult groups and will be leading the tour. Group size is minimum of 10 and maximum of 20. All groups of 10-20 participants must be scheduled as explained within this procedure:

Guide-Organized Group Tour Reservation Procedure (3)

Asian Arts and Artists

Sheila McGuire covered this content in Fall 2021 training, via this link.

Here are the slides:

Asian Arts and Artists

Here are the key ideas/suggested questions:

Asian arts and Artists key ideas and suggested questions

Black American Arts and Artists

Here are some artwork ideas:

Black American Arts and Artists slide deck

Key ideas/suggested questions:

to come

Here is a self-guided tour flier, with some questions and artwork information:

Self-Guide Template Celebration of African American Art final QR

Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents 11.17.22

Here is the recording of the training for the December 2022 Cross Currents public tour, Winter Solstice:

Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents

Here is the chat:

Chat for December Cross Currents

Here are the presentation slides, with the resources:

Tour Break_ Winter Solstice Cross Currents

And here are the best practices for engagement from guides who have given multiple Cross Currents tours, and some information and reminders about the tour format:

Best Practices for Cross Currents tours