Here is our school guide Brown Bag from 9.27.23, with a focus on Art Adventure tours, upcoming gallery changes, and discussing nudity with students/chaperones:
Brown Bag school guides 09.27.23
Here is a PDF of the slides:
Special Exhibition and Permanent Collection Private Tours
Please follow this procedure when you as a guide organize your own adult groups and will be leading the tour. Group size is minimum of 10 and maximum of 20. All groups of 10-20 participants must be scheduled as explained within this procedure:
Sheila McGuire covered this content in Fall 2021 training, via this link.
Here are the slides:
Here are the key ideas/suggested questions:
Asian arts and Artists key ideas and suggested questions
Here are some artwork ideas:
Black American Arts and Artists slide deck
Key ideas/suggested questions:
to come
Here is a self-guided tour flier, with some questions and artwork information:
Self-Guide Template Celebration of African American Art final QR
Review of tour procedures, resources, and lead guide responsibilities.
Recording:
Brown Bag for School Guides on 10.27.22
Slides:
Starting areas for routes of topic tours
Welcome to our Resource Page for StaffSavvy, our tour scheduling system. As we continue to train on this system, we will post materials on this resource page.
Here is a link to the slides from our Info Sessions in November 2023:
Training 11.17.23 StaffSavvy session
Here is a link to the video for our refresher on Sept. 20, 2022:
Here is a link to the slides:
Training 09.20.22 StaffSavvy session
Here is a direct link to StaffSavvy:
Here is the recording for our introduction on May 26, 2022, to the new scheduling system, StaffSavvy:
Introduction to tour assignments in StaffSavvy
Here is the chat file:
Here are the slides:
Training 5.26.22 StaffSavvy session
The three videos we sent out to introduce the system are here:
Video 1: Introduction and changing your password
Video 2: Updating your photo and profile
Video 3: How to do a checkout or leave request
To send a group message to multiple guides in StaffSavvy, go to My Account/My Messages, then select “Send a New Message” in the top menu bar. In the “To” line, you can enter multiple guide names. Click on “Send Message” to send the message. If you are uncertain if all guides in your tour assignment are using StaffSavvy messaging, you can use email addresses provided in the guide rosters.
Here is the recording of the Tour Break on African Arts and Artists with Sheila McGuire:
05.10.22 Tour Break African Arts and Artists
Here is the chat:
Tour Break Africa chat 05.10.22
Here are the slides from the presentation:
African Arts and Artists In-person tour slides
And here are the key ideas/suggested questions:
Here is a link to the recording:
Tour Break: Art and Identity 04.21.22
Here is a link to the slides:
Here is the attendance feedback form:
Attendance feedback form for Art & Identity
Here are the key ideas and suggested questions:
Art and Identity art and artists key ideas and suggested questions
Peer resource document (add your ideas!):
Here is the recording to the required Tour Break on Art and Activism:
Tour Break Art and Activism 4.12.22
And here is the chat:
Tour Break Art and Activism chat 04.13.22
Here is the link for the attendance feedback form. Please complete if you attended or watched the video:
Attendance feedback form for Art and Activism 04.12.22
Here are the slides for the tour:
Here are key ideas and suggested questions:
Art and Activism key ideas and suggestions
Peer resource document (add your ideas!):
A resource shared by Kate Christianson, of a tour from the Art Institute of Chicago: Art and Activism