Attached is a PDF of the final evaluation for the docent training program. You can fill out the document online or by hand and return to Debbi via email, US mail, or drop it off in the Tour Office (in the envelope pinned to the bulletin board).
Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback and welcome to the Senior Docent family!
PPT lecture slides:
Touring with ASL interpreter 2017
Verbal description handout:
Class video links:
Lecture PPT:
Contemporary art lecture for May 17
(If someone wants to use the photo of Panda and Doryphoros and can not copy and paste from the PPT PDF, let Kara know and she can send a separate file.)
Lecture handout:
Contemporary Art handout for May 17
Lenses for looking at Contemporary Art handout:
Key Principles for Looking at Contemporary Art
See, Think, Wonder handout:
Additional information on Renee Stout’s Crossroads Marker:
Renee Stout Crossroads (extended)
Additional links to Friends’ lectures for Nick Cave and Renee Stout:
Class video links:
JDT class video links for May 17
Lecture PPT, Debbi’s lecture:
American Modern Art Since 1950
Lecture handouts:
Am Art Mid 20th century beyond handout
Am Art Mid 20th century beyond slide list
Quotes by modern and contemporary artists:
Modern and Contemporary Art Quotes
Lecture PPT, Part 2 of Bob Cozzolino’s lecture:
mia docent modernism talk part 2
(Lecture handout and reading list to come from Bob Cozzolino.)
Class video links:
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout:
Modern art to 1950 and Modern Craft
Study sheet for next class:
American mid-20th c. art study sheet
Class video links:
JDT class video links for May 3
Link to Alexander Calder “Circus” video
Checkout tour schedule for May and June:
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout (to come, from Bob Cozzolino)
Study sheet for next class:
Modern art and craft study sheet 2017
Class video links:
JDT class video links for April 26
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handouts:
Design Timelines and Intro slides
Study sheet for next time:
Study sheet for early Modern American art
Additional resources:
Additional resources for design
Class video links:
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout:
Interview with Marcel Duchamp at Walker
Class video links:
No PPT file available. Please watch video. The lecture handout goes in order of objects presented:
Pacific Islands lecture handout
Study sheet for next week:
Class video links:
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handouts:
Class video links:
JDT class video links for March 15
We have no study sheet for next week at this time. The instructions for the final checkout tour are posted in the Homework Assignments folder.
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout:
Classroom/School Group Management Tips:
Afternoon participatory activities debrief PPT:
Participatory Activities Debrief (themes)
(NOTE: For the full PPT showing the participatory activities from each group, look in the Assignments folder. Supporting materials from groups are also posted there. If you have questions about an activity, contact a member of the group directly.)
Video links to the class:
Lecture PPT:
Photog history (1839 up to WWII)
Lecture handout:
Study sheet for Cubism lecture on March 8:
Class video links:
JDT class video links for March 1
Essays on photography, at the Met:
Daguerre and the invention of photography
Besides the usual excellent essays on photography and its practitioners, I found a link to a Met Museum exhibition that explores some of the issues we discussed in the lecture:
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
There was also a series of presentations at a symposium related to the above exhibition. Videos of these presentations are available; if you scroll down the screen past the one in the link below, you’ll see other video content:
Faking It Symposium: Social Documentary and Pictorial Manipulation
I also happened to find an excerpt of some of Martha Rosler’s work:
Library of Congress article, below:
Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
Also, this PBS story: The Story of the Migrant Mother
And finally, some more information on FSA photography:
Documenting America, 1935-1943
Finally, here was the article in the NYT on last Saturday’s incident:
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout (list of all objects covered in the lecture):
Docent Training_02.2017_African Objects
Class video links:
Lecture PPT:
2017-Docent Training Africa (1)
(No handout from class)
Class video links:
As we spent the morning and afternoon in the galleries, we do not have a lecture PPT, lecture handout, or video links.
Here are some links to information on “Let: an act of reverse incorporation.”
Let: an act of reverse incorporation exhibition
Mia Interview with artist Andrea Carlson
Concerning the “Boomin’ Out” work by Carla Hemlock: Kanienkehaka (People of the Flint) is the preferred name of the Mohawk people. According to the artsmia label: “The Indian Head and the designs within the circle are representative of the Kanienkehaka, or People of the Flint – Mohawks.”
Here is a link to a story on their connection to construction in NYC:
Here is the study sheet to prepare for the February 15 and 22 lectures on Africa:
Living Arts of Africa study sheet
Supplemental readings for these lectures are posted in the Readings folder.
Lecture PPT (Judaica):
Lecture PPT (Global Thinking Routines):
Global Thinking Routines session
Group responses, from gallery session:
Global Thinking Routines reponse 2.1.17
Lecture Handout:
(Study sheet for next class was the Americas study sheet, posted on January 18.)
Class video links:
JDT class video links for February 1
Winter Count document:
Online exhibition of Lakota Winter Counts
From your colleague, Debbie Lynch-Rothstein:
“I happened to catch this film on pbs this week & it helped me appreciate the sacredness of Native American objects & the power of talking or not talking about these objects.”
Independent Lens: What Was Ours (Program Info) AND link to full video
Class video links Of afternoon discussion):
JDT class video links for January 25
Further readings and reference materials received from Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Dakota Hoska will be placed with the other readings in the “Readings” folder. (These are tagged “Native American reference materials,” so if you search using those words on the IPE site, that specific posting should be the first result.)
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout:
Postimpressionism lecture handout
Study sheet for Americas lectures (on 1/25 and 2/8):
Art of the Americas worksheet 2017
Class video links:
JDT class video links for January 18
Sign up for March public tours (completed):
Rachel McGarry’s lecture (in 2 PDFs):
Prints 18th century AND Prints 19th century
Lecture handout:
Lecture bibliography:
Click here: Link to the Mia Story that Rachel wrote
Study sheet for the next lecture:
Post Impressionists study sheet (PDF)
Class video links:
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout:
Feedback on group tours PPT:
Small group exercise, interpretive and associative questions:
Interpretive and Associative questions
Study sheet for print lecture (January 11):
Printmaking study sheet for Jan 11
Study sheet for the Jan. 4 lecture:
19thCEuroAmerican study sheet (PDF) and 19thCEuroAmerican study sheet (Word)
Video links for the class:
JDT class video links for January 4 (PDF) and JDT class video links for January 4 (Word)