March 29, 2017
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout:
Interview with Marcel Duchamp at Walker
Class video links:
Junior Docents
March 22, 2017
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:
March 15, 2017
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.
Article on hidden black female figures in Western art
From your colleague Josie Owens, “this piece is very insightful and perhaps something to use in the future when we talk about diversity”:
BROKEN, DEFACED, UNSEEN: THE HIDDEN BLACK FEMALE FIGURES OF WESTERN ART
Final Checkout Tour
Here are the instructions for the final checkout tour:
Here is the tour review form for the peer reviewer:
Final Checkout Gallery Tour Peer Review rev
Please submit the peer review form within a week of the completion of the tour, by placing it in the envelope within the Tour Office.
List of contemporary art currently on view:
Contemporary Art on view for checkout tour 3.22.17
Final checkout tour calendars, with peer reviewers:
Art of the Pacific Islands, March 22
Here is the supplemental reading for the March 22 lecture:
March 8, 2017
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:
March 1, 2017
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:
February 22, 2017
Lecture PPT:
Lecture handout (list of all objects covered in the lecture):
Docent Training_02.2017_African Objects
Class video links:
Exhibition at the Norway House
From Ingrid Roberts, news of an interesting exhibition on Norwegian textiles currently on display at the Norway House:
Oleana: From Dream to Fairytale Reality Exhibit
Readings for Photography class session, March 1
Craven, Chapters 17 and 25:
Also, read on the IPE site the “History of Photography Overview,” found under References & Policies/Art Cart/Manuals/Photography Art Cart. (Scroll down the page to see the Overview file. You can also search History of Photography on the site, and the overview should be in the results.)
Finally, here is a great set of 12 short videos on the history of photography, detailing all the innovations in the photographic processes through time, from the George Eastman House:
Photographic Processes video series
Kemang Wa Lehulere: In All My Wildest Dreams
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger,
I did see this exhibit when I was in Chicago over Thanksgiving. I wish the video had been available BEFORE I was exposed to his art.
February 15, 2017
Lecture PPT:
2017-Docent Training Africa (1)
(No handout from class)
Class video links:
February 8, 2017
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.
Readings for Living Arts of Africa sessions, February 15 and 22
The Trouble with Tribe, short article by Chris Lowe:
African Art in the Cycle of Life:
African Art in the CycleofLife- Roy Sieber
African Masquerade:
AfricanMasquerade- Herbert Cole
Introduction to African Art:
Vogel Introduction to African Art
Africa: The Art of a Continent
Tips for touring African art with school groups:
Tips for Touring African Art with Young People
Tips for touring the African galleries:
Story on Black Elk
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, an article on Black Elk in America Magazine, The Jesuit Review of Faith and Culture, January 23, 2017:
Black Elk, The Native American Holy Man who did not surrender all to the Jesuits
February 1, 2017
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
Power of Native American Art
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.”
January 25, 2017
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.)
Highlights 1600-1850 Group Tour Outlines
Attached are the brief tour planning worksheets for the junior docent highlights of world art, 1600-1850.
Group 1: (not submitted)
Group 2: Ceremonies and Celebrations Tour Sheet final
Group 3: People Who Made History Tour Sheet final
Group 4: Passion for Place tour sheet final
Group 5: Love, Honor, Betrayal tour sheet final
Group 6: Symbolism in Art tour sheet final
For better search results, the object files, if submitted, will be tagged with the Group Tour topic key word (see below). If you search for the keyword and object file, the search result should pull all tour files into the search results.
Group 1 keyword search: Fashion/Trends object file
Group 2 keyword search: Ceremonies object file
Group 3 keyword search: History-people object file
Group 4 keyword search: Passion-place object file
Group 5 keyword search: Betrayal object file
Group 6 keyword search: Symbolism-art object file