Artsmia Information

MuseumNext 2023 offerings

From the Director’s Office:

MuseumNext Digital Learning Summit 2023
19 – 20 June 2023

Are you curious about how digital learning is transforming education, and what it means for museums? Join us for the Digital Learning Summit, where we’ll bring together some of the most innovative and forward-thinking minds in the museum world.

With presentations and insights from top museums around the globe, including the Guggenheim, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Getty, Smithsonian, Museums Victoria, Nobel Peace Centre and more, you’ll gain valuable knowledge and actionable advice on the future of museum learning.  Whether you’re an educator, museum professional, or just someone with a passion for learning, this virtual event is not to be missed.

Mia staff, volunteers, and trustees can sign up for free using Mia’s season pass: https://ti.to/nxt/digital-learning-summit-2023/with/4p3gnzea9z0
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Upcoming MuseumNext Virtual Summits
Mia has once again purchased a season pass to the June-December season of MuseumNext virtual conferences. All staff, volunteers, and trustees are eligible to attend. See below for details.

Miao or Hmong?

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:

Miao or Hmong

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.

Black History Month resources

Here are some resources for Black History Month or for giving tours focused on African American/Black American artists:

Mia’s website compilation for Black History Month

 

African American artwork currently on view:

African American artist/works on view, February 2024

 

Walkthrough with Mia Guide Jean Ann Durades (to come)

 

Tour Outlines

(If you care to share tour outlines. please email to Kara or Debbi, to include here.)

Rebecca Haddad_Celebration of African America Art History

Teaching the Arts

The resource Teaching the Arts (Artwork in Focus and Five Ideas) has been restored to the Mia website!

To access a wealth of information about favorite artworks used on tours, click on the link below:

Teaching the Arts

 

“Live” map of Mia galleries with objects

To search what is on view within Mia galleries, you can access a “live” gallery map. Simply click on any specific gallery to bring up its contents.  Click on this gallery map link to get to that page.

You can also access all artworks on view in a specific gallery through a search on artsmia. Click on this link to get to the search, and in the search bar below the photo of Explore the Art, type in the gallery number you wish to check, preceded by a G, so for example, G261 is Gallery 261.

Smarthistory videos with Mia curators

In a partnership with the online learning site Smarthistory, Mia’s curators took part in producing videos on some of the key works in our collections:

Enjoy!

Direct link to Collections page on artsmia.org

Below is the direct link to the Collections search page on artsmia.org:

Collections Search

If you scroll to the bottom of the Collections search page, you will find the interactive gallery maps. If you click on a gallery, the results should show what is on view in that gallery. (Note: If you use Internet Explorer as your browser, this interactive feature of the gallery maps does not work. You will need to search by gallery; for example, type in G250, then hit search and the results should be the objects within gallery 250.)

Video content from Mia

(NOTE: IPE videos of continuing education lectures and meetings are separately posted on this IPE site, under the “Videos” menu tab)

Video content from Mia (Talks at Mia, including Friends’ lectures) is available on Vimeo:

Vimeo artsmia videos

Click on this link to explore the older video content from Mia:

YouTube artsmia videos

Once there, you will see some top menu categories: Home/Videos/Playlists/etc. You can click on the menu “Videos” and find a full list of all the posted videos.

The playlists will also bring up some good video content organized by theme. Click on the link below, and then check out the “Two Minutes with the Curator” videos:

Playlists within artsmia videos on YouTube

 

Mia ArtStories

The ArtStories are a new and fantastic source of research for certain objects in the collection. Click on this link to get to the explore page, with the ArtStories:

Mia artstories

And here is a contents list of the ArtStories published online, with live links in the PDF to specific ArtStories (for those published as of February 9, 2018):

ArtStories published list 02.09.18