Final checkout tours
Here are the outlines for the final checkout tours of 2017:
Junior Docents
Ai Weiwei interview
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a link to a 60 Minutes interview with artist Ai Weiwei:
Video on Italian Cassones
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger:
Video on Miro and Giacometti
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, “although this is a video about an auction of their work, it includes some great photos of both artists and speaks of the way they were changed by WWII.”
Buddhist Temple trip photos
Here are the photos from the road trip to Hampton, to visit Watt Munisotaram, a Cambodian Buddhist Temple:
Article on Calder exhibition…
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger,
“Great article in today’s ArtDaily Newsletter on the Calder exhibit at the Whitney in NYC.”
Final Evaluation
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!
May 24, 2017 class
PPT lecture slides:
Touring with ASL interpreter 2017
Verbal description handout:
Class video links:
May 17, 2017 class
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
May 10, 2017
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:
Robert Motherwell and NYC Abstract Expressionists
From your colleague, Kathleen Steiger,
“ArtDaily video on Motherwell and NYC abstract expressionist works.”
Loie Fuller video, Serpentine Dance
From docents Fran Megarry and Debbie Koller, a video of Loie Fuller, doing the Serpentine Dance that inspired our Mia table lamp, c. 1900, by Raoul-Francois Larche, 98.276.76
Serpentine Dance by the Lumière brothers
Video on Tibetan Mandala
From docents Fran Megarry and Debbie Koller, here is a short video that shows the sand painting of a Tibetan mandala:
Tibetan Monks Create Sand Mandala at Clark College in Vancover, WA
(We also have that tool shown in the video in the prop box in the guide lounge.)
May 3, 2017
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:
April 26, 2017
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
Long-Lost Frank Lloyd Wright Projects Come to Life
From your colleague Brenda Wyley, a great article on bringing some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s destroyed or paper projects back to digital life:
Information on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Below is a weblink to a great informational essay on the work of contemporary Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Her work Survival: Wisdom/Knowledge, 1996 is currently on view in the Americas Galleries.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Flathead Contemporary Artist
April 19, 2017
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:
PBS special on Tea
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger,
Great 27 minute video from PBS!
This included Tang dynasty, Chinese as well as Japanese practices.
San Francisco Opera, Dream of the Red Chamber
From your colleague Mary Ann Wark, “Not sure whether this might be useful to others, but I thought it was quite interesting. My friend Rick Hauser did a website to accompany the San Francisco Opera Dream of the Red Chamber. He used objects from Mia’s collection to explain some of the ideas of the Chinese garden.”