Programs

If you look up Topics for School Tours under School Guides on the main menu, you will find a link for Artful Stories, the PreK curriculum mentioned in the session.

10.07.21 Guide session on new accessions

The presentation slides:

2021 Training 10.07.21 All Guides final

The recording:

10.07.21 CE session new accessions

The chat from the session (and thanks to you all for wonderful observations!):

CE session 10.07.21 new accessions chat

Here is Christi Belcourt’s Instagram account, and she offered observations on her work in our galleries as she was making it:

Christi Belcourt Instagram

And here is the document Tobie Miller compiled, identifying the flora and fauna within Belcourt’s painting:

It’s a Delicate Balance – flora and fauna

Complete the feedback form to receive attendance credit:

October 7 session feedback form

Homework for school guides:

Read through the information on K-2 students for our October 14 session:

Developmental Stages

Homework for adult guides:

Continue working on the Cross currents worksheet.

Worksheet for Cross Currents tour development

Adult Guides will next meet the evening of October 21.

09.30.21 School Guide session

Presentation slides:

Main presentation slides (includes North American Arts and Artists): 2021 Training 09.30.21 School Guides

Animals and Art_DH

Amazing Animals in Art

American Stories

Recording:

School Guide Session 09.30.21

CE session School Guides 09.30.21 chat

Attendance feedback form for 09.30.21

Homework for October 7 session:

Joe Minter Old Rugged Cross SM

Virgil Ortiz Jagg Gage KZ

Christi Belcourt Gallery 259 DH

Also, for peer learning opportunities on October 13/15, review the themes for two Art Adventure sets: Family, Friends, and Communities and Let’s Celebrate Life. An email with registration links for those in-person sessions on October 15 and 29 was sent to guides on October 1.

Animals and Art

Animals and Art_DH

Key Ideas and suggested questions:

Animals and Art key ideas and questions_DH

North American Arts and Artists

Here is a link to the recording:

Tour Break on North American Arts and Artists, 05.17.22

Here are the presentation slides:

North American art and artists (2)

Resources for the tour on North American Arts and Artists:

North American arts and artists key ideas and suggested questions

Slides:

North American art and artists

Week 2 sessions, 9.23.21

For all groups, a reminder that our Tour Toolkit has best practices for many of the tour elements we are discussing this week, divided into school and adult/multigenerational sections:

Tour Toolkit

School Guide session

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 09.23.21 School Guides

Here is the link to the recording:

Video of Week 2 School Guides session

Chat file: Week 2 School Guides chat 09.23.21

Homework for School Guides:

Review Art Adventure tours: Amazing Animals and American Stories (booklets posted under AAG Sets on main website menu)

Review themed tours: Animals in Art (to be posted on Monday) and North American Arts and Artists (materials posted under Topics for School Tours)

If needed, continue to work on Wayfinding assignments and connecting with 1 to 2 guides you do not know (Mia Buddies)

Here is a direct link to the feedback form for Week 2 school session. Please take a moment to fill out to receive attendance credit for this session:

Week 2 09.23 school session attendance feedback form

Adult/Multigenerational Guides session:

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 09.23.21 Adult Guides

Here is the link to the recording:

Video of Adult Guide session 09.23 (NOTE: We forgot to hit record until folks were sharing their Cross Currents tour experiences, so check out the four slides before this share-out, to learn more on why Cross Currents tours were developed and how they are structured. Any specific questions, ask in the feedback form)

Chat file: Week 2 Adult Guides chat 09.23.21

Homework for Adult/Multigenerational Guides (A Word version of this was emailed on 9/24 to Adult Guides):

Worksheet for Cross Currents tour development

Direct link to the feedback form for Session 2 below. Please take a moment to fill out so you receive attendance credit for this session:

Week 2 09.23 adult multigenerational feedback form

Week 1: Combined session, 9.9.21 (repeated 9.11.21)

Recording of session (note, the recording started about five minutes into the session due to operator error, just when Katie Luber started to share her remarks):

Week 1 combined session recording 09.09.21

Presentation slides:

2021 Training 09.09.21

Feedback form for attendance credit: Week 1 feedback form

Homework

Adult guides:
Wayfinding worksheet using new gallery rotations and acquisitions, due December 16: Wayfinding Mia Guides 2021

School guides:
Review Art Adventure approach (read an intro of any AAG booklet, link here) and AAG routes (link here), due by September 23.
Wayfinding worksheet for AAG, due December 16: Art Adventure Wayfinding 2021

Optional, complete wayfinding sheet for adult guides, due December 16: Wayfinding Mia Guides 2021

For both adult and school guides:
Connect with 1-2 other guides you haven’t met (additional information and roster forthcoming)

Letter of Agreement for 2023/2024

Requirements for the 2023/2024 touring year (July 2023 to June 2024):

2023-24 Letter of Agreement

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is committed to the mission of enriching the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world’s diverse cultures. As a Mia Guide, you are integral to fulfilling that mission. We are proud of the standards of excellence in learning and collaboration that our volunteer program represents. Each individual associated with our program is responsible for maintaining these standards.

As a member of the Mia Guide program, we ask you to commit to the following requirements:

Have a working email address and check it three times a week for Mia announcements and to access assignment information through the Tour Office scheduling system StaffSavvy.
Commit to fulfilling 24 to 40 tour credits for touring year 2023-2024 (ends June 30, 2024). Guides may be assigned to more than one tour a month to fulfill the required tour credits. Some assignments (Stop & Chat and Cross Currents) are two credits per assigned shift.
Attend a minimum of six Continuing Education (CE) sessions, including two required cultural fluency sessions. Guides who cannot attend a required cultural fluency session must make it up by viewing a recording of the session and completing an online survey.
Be present in the museum at least 20 minutes before your tour time. Consistent tardiness and/or three (3) no-shows are grounds for being excused from the program. In the case of three “no shows” or repetitive tardiness, there will be a discussion with Mia Educators and the Guide Council regarding further action.
Secure your own substitutes for tour assignments. Contact the Tour Office if you need guidance on how to secure a substitute guide.
Participate in the Learning Department’s tour observation feedback and reflection process as required.
As necessary, follow the appropriate policies and procedures for contact and communication with tour organizers (school or private group contacts) and other guides.
Follow the protocol for checking out or requesting a leave of absence in StaffSavvy. (This is available at My Account/My Availability/Request Time Off.)
Mia Guides may be assigned to tour one special exhibition each year and must attend all pertinent training (exhibition lecture, walk-through with curator and, when applicable, a special session for school tours). When there is an exhibition catalog, guides will be given a complimentary copy.
If you are a school guide, be available for two (2) tour assignments on a full day per week, Tuesday through Friday, unless otherwise approved by staff.

To renew your commitment to the program and affirm your agreement to the above requirements, please complete this short Google form by end of day, September 30, by clicking on the link below:
Letter of Agreement signature form
An automatic response receipt will be sent, via email, for your records.

Regarding the actions we asked guides to take in StaffSavvy, to add to your “About Me” information and confirm or change your tour day, here is a PDF showing the screenshots from StaffSavvy, outlining all the steps needed for each action:

StaffSavvy updates