Programs

December 17 and 20, 2024 class

Here is a link to the Zoom session, focused on Artists’ Inspirations and discussion of the substitutes worksheet:

December 20 class recording

Here are the presentation slides:

12.17 and 12.20 class Artists Inspirations

Here is a link to a Google Doc, where you can share your ideas for the substitutes for the assignment.

Finally, here is the link for the schedule of January tours to participate on.

The full tour observation and participation instructions are here:

Observation and participation 2025

And here is the school tour participation reflection form:

School Guide Tour Participation Reflection Form

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