Gender Inclusive Language and Gender Pronouns 101
From Mia’s 2SLGBTQ+ work group, a resource:
From Mia’s 2SLGBTQ+ work group, a resource:
From Curatorial, the accession proposals for the artworks currently on view in the Rotunda:
Rotunda Spring 2024 Accessions Proposal for General Distribution
July Cross Currents: Summer Vacation! Take a break as works of art transport you on a trip around the world.
Gallery 203
Training with Curator Yang Liu on 6.27.24
Articles by Yang Liu:
Three_Eremitic_Pictures_and_a_Song_of_Despair
Fantastic_Mountains_Where_Man_Meets_Nature
Fantastic_Mountains_Chinese_Landscape_Painting
Essay from the Met: Landscape Painting in Chinese Art
From Khan Academy: Chinese landscape painting
From the Asian Art Museum: The Development of Landscape Painting in China through the Tang Dynasty (618-906) (in particular, note this statement: “In Chinese color theory, black contains all colors; thus theorists believe that people can conceive all colors in the various tones of ink.”
Lesson on Chinese landscape painting from Princeton, with some good questions under the “Lesson” heading: Chinese Landscape Painting during the Song Dynasty
Gallery 355
Worcester Art Museum Video: Matthias Waschek: Pierre Bonnard’s ‘Dining Room In The Country’
French Quarter magazine: Exploring the Intellectual Haven: The Legacy of Parisian Café Culture (Vuillard’s Place Saint-Augustin)
BBC Arts: The Pursuit of Paradise: Eight paintings tracing Paul Gauguin’s quest for the exotic in Tahiti
National Gallery of Art: Gauguin: Maker of Myth
Musee Giverny: Signac, the colors of water
Gallery 379 (Going on a road trip, boat ride, or scooter–in streamlined design)
Streamline Moderne: Speeding into the future!
From Wikipedia, a history of the Road Trip
From the Library of Congress blog: America on the Road: The Family Vacation by Car
Go on a road trip with the Tatra! Tatra 603 ad video (a later Tatra version, but good sense of how fast it could go, even in the countryside)
From Wikipedia: Tatra 87
Tatra ArtStories (to come: link is currently down)
Classic Car Review: The Death Eaters, Chapter 1: Tatra T87
Skippy Racer Scooter history, with photos: 1938 ‘Skippy Racer’ Streamlined Scooter
Here is the recording:
Brown Bag for adult guides 5.15.24
Here are the slides (and note, there is a link to the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine online resource in the slides):
Here are some resources for preparing for the in-gallery (Cross Currents) May public tour:
G259
Check out info on Virgil Ortiz, Jagg and Gage, minute mark 14:30 in this new accessions video.
Jeffrey Gibson’s punching bags: Jeffrey Gibson on the origins of his beaded punching bags
Jeffrey Gibson at the Venice Biennale 2024
Rose Simpson’s monumental sculptures: Rose B. Simpson in “Everyday Icons” – Season 11 – “Art in the Twenty-First Century” | Art21
Rose Simpson at the Jack Shaiman Gallery
Avis Charley: New to Nevada: Avis Charley
The Growing Thunder Collective
Pathfinder: 40 Years of Marcus Amerman
From the New York Times: Kay WalkingStick: Reframing the American Landscape
G301 (Reimagining Native/American Art) Feel free to walk into 302 as well.
(NOTE: This exhibition closes on May 27. For the May 30 and 31st public tours, guides will station in the Prairie School galleries, G300)
Watch Jill and Bob’s training on this gallery installation.
Wing Young Huie, Kids Playing in Frogtown (see Art Adventure set, American Stories, for information)
Christi Belcourt, here is the PDF of some of the flora and fauna depicted:
It’s a Delicate Balance – flora and fauna
Eva Zeisel–Town and Country by Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel in Chicago Tribune: EVA DOES IT
Charles Biederman: The Sage of Red Wing
G364 (American Gothic)
From the Mia blog: The Minnesota legacy of Gordon Parks, a life of seeing and being seen
Here is a link to the training with Curator Casey Riley, from January 9:
Training on Gordon Parks exhibition
Here are the panels, labels, and subpanels in the exhibition:
GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2
GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL
GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL
G373 (and feel free to wander into G374)
Check out Dennis Jon’s training on Part 2 of this Collage/Assemblage exhibition.
If you go into G374, Joe Minter’s assemblage provokes lots of conversation. Learn more about Joe Minter by listening to Mia’s podcast, The Object: Yard Show: The World According to Joe
An article on Rose Simpson’s new monumental clay figures:
Spring cultural fluency training with the Autism Society of Minnesota:
Presentation slides:
Handout:
For all guides, please complete the appropriate feedback form for attendance credit:
or
Online cultural fluency training and feedback (for those who missed our in-person session)
From your colleague Marne Zafar, a tour outline shared for her tour of Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper:
Here are some resources for the February in-gallery public tour, Celebrating African American Art, as part of Black History month celebrations.
First, here is a link to all African American art currently on view at Mia (updated for March 2024).
Here is a link to the Cross Currents public tour sign-up, where gallery assignments are noted.
Here is the training by Jean Ann Durades on January 18:
Part 3: G353 (not on Cross Currents, but good artworks to include on BHM private tours)
2024 self-guided tour flyer:
2024 Self-Guide Template Celebration of African American Art QR final
Here is a link to Bisa Butler’s talk.
From your colleague Marne Zafar, a detailed tour outline:
Black Heritage-History Tour Notes FEB 2024
Galleries 303 (also can access 301, 302, and 304)
Nellie Mae Abrams, “Housetop” quilt
Gee’s Bend quilt information, Mia blog
Lamar Peterson: A Self-Portrait
Leslie Barlow (move ahead to 10 minutes in the video): studio visit
Leslie Barlow’s MAEP exhibition and her talk, recorded
Renee Stout, Biography (also includes a pic of Soul Regenerator)
Object file on Henry Bannarn’s Cleota Collins
Gallery 322
Bisa Butler, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Notes from Josie Owens from a convo with Bisa Butler:
“Bisa tried to imagine their past and future personalities. The symbols refer to how she sees them. The fan is a symbol of success. In Ghana in the markets the more lucrative businesses have electricity and can offer fans to their customers. This woman will be a successful businesswoman. The hearts are on the skirt of the woman who looks like the kind friend. The bling is for the woman who is the fashionista. The high heels refer to Michelle Obama’s inauguration heels. She’s a leader and powerful. She said that she had to redo the face of the fan woman. She didn’t like how she looked.”
Video of Jean Ann’s tour, including Joshua Johnson’s painting. (and Bannarn’s Cleota Collins)
Video: Patsy Rembert introduces ‘Winfred Rembert. All of Me’ in New York
From the Mia blog: “I wanted people to know”: The moving history behind Winfred Rembert’s “The Beginning”
From Kate Christianson, a great documentary about Rembert now streaming online at Amazon Prime:
All Me: The Life And Times Of Winfred Rembert
Galleries 364/365: American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson
From the Mia blog: The Minnesota legacy of Gordon Parks, a life of seeing and being seen
Also, from The Object podcast: to come
Here is a link to the training with Curator Casey Riley, from January 9:
Training on Gordon Parks exhibition
Here are the panels, labels, and subpanels in the exhibition:
GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2
GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL
GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL
PBS video from Jean London:
Why Gordon Parks’ Most Famous Photo Almost Wasn’t Released
From Rose Stanley-Gilbert:
https://www.npr.org/sections/
Background on the FSA:
Galleries 375 (also can access G376)
A catalog of James Phillips’ works that includes Cosmic Connection
Joe Overstreet’s work discussed (28:24 on video) in Curatorial training in 2019
William Edmondson, Ram (see Jean Ann’s tour video posted under G322–and check out the Art Adventure set, Artist’s Inspirations, of which the Ram is part.)
Curator Bob Cozzolino’s training on Bob Thompson and Beauford Delaney: Kunin Collection Focus on Bob Thompson, January 10, 2019
Some information from your colleague Terry Edam:
From your colleague Manju Parikh, an article that includes research on George Morrison:
From your colleague Brenda Haines:
For Max Beckmann, Art’s Ironist, Crisis and Rediscovery – The New York Times
Our December public tour is in-gallery conversations (Cross Currents). Guides will be stationed in G243, G250 or 254, G357, and G362.
Cross Currents Flyer Template_December 2023 public tour
The theme is “Celebrating the Season: learn how countries around the world celebrate the season of rebirth and renewal.”
Training for this tour is already available, December 2022. Click on this link to access the Tour Break information from last year for Yalda, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas.
From your colleague Lyn Osgood, an article on the Osage clothing (including wedding wear) in the movie Killers of the Flower Moon.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Scorsese’s Bride Like No Other
The November tour theme is:
Arts of Native America
Experience the role of tradition and innovation in superb works of Native American Art.
General condensed Native relations statement:
The museum resides on the homelands of the Dakhóta people and their Anishinaabe and Ho-Chunk neighbors. Through gallery installations and future exhibitions, Mia pledges to make visible the creativity and ingenuity of Native artists from the past, the present, and the future.
From your colleague, Marne Zafar, a tour of Native American art, including works in the new reinstallation in G259-261:
Who Are We. Who We Are. Americas Tour 2023-2024 FINAL
Check out the Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie resource page (link here) for information on that exhibition.
Check out the tour break and other school tour materials on this topic, at this link.
Check out the Reimagining Native/American Art resource page for information on that gallery reinstallation at this link.
Check out our self-guided tour flyer for November:
Native American Heritage Month self guided tour
Peer resources:
In the October 2023 Cross Currents, the theme is Telling Stories: Gather around works of art to look, listen, and tell your own stories.
Guides will be stationed in Galleries 213, 280, 365, and 379. Following are some resources for each gallery, to help prepare for your assignments. If you find additional resources you wish to share with your peers, email those to Debbi or Kara to add here.
Gallery 213
Check out all objects on view in G213
Enshrined Buddha, 1850, with audio stop
and Burma Enshrined Buddha Object File
And article on an enshrined Buddha in the Asian Art Museum collection:
Crowned and bejeweled Buddha image and throne
Ceremonial vessel in the form of a Water Buffalo, 1000-300 BCE (this is an Art Adventure object, so check out the booklet with its entry, in People and Their Environments)
Thailand Walking Buddha object file
Prajnaparamita, late 12th-early 13th century (with audio stop)
General information on Buddhism:
Introduction to Buddhism and subsequent articles, Khan Academy
Buddhism/Hinduism/Jainism, lecture by Debbi Hegstrom, 2019
Gallery 280
Jim Denomie, lecture with Nicole Soukup:
Curator lecture on the Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie
Video playing in the exhibition: The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie, exhibition video
Video interview with Jim Denomie from the Muskegon Museum of Art: Jim Denomie: Challenging the Narrative (note, great information is included about some works in our show.)
From the Bockley Gallery: Jim Denomie bio
Gallery 365
Gallery training (video link) with Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Leslie Ureña.
Another Look exhibition page on Mia website
Gallery 379
How might visitors feel when they find out the “true story” of the missing curator is a fiction? What are visitor expectations of the information they find in the museum? What is a period room and how does it “tell a story”?
Mark Dion (pronounced Die-On), Curator’s Office (we recommend bringing a little flashlight with you to point out details within; flashlights are by the attendance clickers.)
Here is the ArtStory on the Curator’s Office. Click on “Details” and “More” in the tab headings to learn great details to point out to visitors.
Here is a video of Mark Dion discussing the work.
Articles about the work:
Artforum: Mark Dion speaks about his latest installation
ArtNews: The Curator Vanishes: Period Room as Crime Scene
Bio and more: Mark Dion: Art 21
A new research resource from your colleague Kay Miller:
New World Objects of Knowledge compressed
“A stunning, richly illustrated hardback cataloging key artifacts from across Latin American art, nature, and history.
From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artifacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world.
With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and museums hosting these objects. Each artifact is accompanied by a comprehensive essay covering its dynamic, often global, history and itinerary. This volume will be an indispensable catalog of New World objects and how they have helped shape our modern world.”
From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert, some background on artist Martin Wong, in connection to an earlier work:
From the Director’s Office:
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Some Hmong visitors feel that Miao is a pejorative term for the ethnic group in China to whom they are related. In response, Curator Yang Liu has provided the following information. If you encounter any questions or concerns on tours, please let us know.
Per Curator Yang Liu:
“The costumes and silver ornaments… belong to the ethnic group living in China’s Guizhou and Hunan provinces. These people are known as ‘Miao’ in China – that is not only the term used in Chinese official classification of the minorities, but also the self-designation of these people. I have visited these regions many times and know that they have no feeling that Hmong is in any way preferable to them as a common designator. No contemporary Chinese will feel that ‘Miao’ contains a sign of disrespect in any way, as the basic meaning of the word ‘miao’ in Chinese is ‘young plant’.
Although there are different opinions, some Western scholars propose that the term Hmong be used only for designating the Miao groups speaking the Hmong dialect in China (very small group) and for the Miao outside China. According to Joakim Enwall, Professor of Chinese, Uppsala University, it is these non-Chinese Hmong living outside China who advocate that the term Hmong be used not only for designating their dialect group, but also for the other groups living in China.”
Yang has also provided an article that discusses this further:
As we know, sometimes visitors just wish to express concerns, to be heard, and they may not agree with the museum’s choice of terminology. In those cases, it is good to encourage visitors to complete a comment card if they wish to receive a direct response from museum staff.