From your colleague Bruce Robbins and librarian Meg Black, this is a document that lists African American artists who have works in Mia’s collection (not on loan objects). As we become aware of new additions, these can be added:
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger:
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger:
From your colleague Judy Ericksen, a great article from MinnPost:
Here is an article with some gallery activity ideas from a Museum Mashup that happened at the Getty. Enjoy!
Here are the video links to the training session on January 18:
This is the PPT from the training:
CE session January 18 2018 final
Here are some additional links to materials connected to the training:
TED Talk: Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie
Where are you really from? article
Where are you really from? Video
A teacher mispronouncing a student’s name can have a lasting impact, Article from PBS newshour.
(Please be aware that this video contains some objectionable language): Video: How microaggressions are like mosquito bites
4 steps to becoming a culturally responsive teacher
Whiteness and Museum Education
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a great article and video from Khan Academy. The video actually was produced by the Getty Museum, and if you look under Research Resources/Online Resources, you will find a link to the Getty museum playlist, with many other interesting videos on materials and techniques.
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger:
From your colleague Bryan Peffer, some interesting online courses offered from the Museum of Modern Art through Coursera. You can enroll for free or if you want a certificate on completion, you need to pay a fee:
Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies For Your Classroom
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a video about the Crest (Tsesah) from the Cameroon Grasslands.
Explore MetCollects videos and other videos from the Metropolitan Museum:
From your colleague Suzanne LeRoy, a photo of the Jeff Koons’ Louis Vuitton bag with the Claude Monet design:
The IPE required CE session on Cultural Responsiveness was held on December 7 and 9. If you were unable to attend, please watch one of the recordings, either the December 7 OR December 9 session:
Here is a video link to the December 7 training in the Villa Rosa Room:
Equity Alliance December 7 training
We also recorded our training session on December 9, in the Target Reception Hall, with the IPE camera:
Video links to December 9 training
Here is a scan of the two handouts used by participants:
Here are the slides from the presentation:
This is a link to a reflection form on the training. If you were not able to attend either of the training sessions in person, please watch the video before completing the form.
Reflection form for cultural responsiveness training
The Harvard implicit bias test was mentioned in the presentation. If you are interested in taking a test or learning more about Project Implicit, click on the following link:
The Walker Art Center invites the Twin Cities Art Museum Guides to tour
Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950.
Guides and Docents, because of the popularity of Adios Utopia, the Walker has added another tour date for Twin CIties Museum guides.
The second tour date is January 26 at 11am and the capacity is 45 people.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR 1/26 TOUR
Meet the tour guides in the main lobby of the Walker (just inside the entrance at 725 Vineland Place), near the information desk.
Please note that guides who were on the waitlist for the first tour who I will be adding to the RSVP list for this second tour.
This tour is free and each guide is invited to bring one guest. Space is limited.
If you are unable to attend the tour after you have registered, please cancel your reservation so that we may open your spot up to someone else.
From Robert Nicholl, American Swedish Institute:
The American Swedish Institute invites the Twin Cities Art Museum Guides to tour:
Fest! Merry Mansion – Nordic Holidays
Friday December 8, 10:00am-11:30am
Meet the tour facilitators in Paulson Hall on the lower level of the historic Turnblad Mansion.
Coffee at 10:00am, tour starts at 10:30am
Register yourself and a guest: 38380.blackbaudhosting.com/38380/TCAMGC-Tour-08Dec2017
Fest! is a demonstration in detail of the dramatic ways in which to celebrate the holiday season. Experience one of the region’s most talked about seasonal destinations with Fest! Merry Mansion, the American Swedish Institute’s 2017-18 exhibition of Nordic Holiday Rooms. Explore the unique displays of customs and traditions from the five Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, all set under one elaborately decorated roof, the historic Turnblad Mansion! ASI annually invites a special community guest to participate in the holiday exhibits in the Turnblad Mansion. This year we celebrate the holiday traditions of Romanian origin in an installation produced by the Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans.
This tour is free for you and you are invited to bring a guest with you. Register through the link above. Space is limited. If you are unable to attend the tour after you have registered, please contact Robert Nicholl at robertn@asimn.org or 612-870-3344.
Check out this website for its Resources page, with articles of interest for docents and guides:
From your colleague Lynn Dunlap, a summary of her notes “from Ross King’s Mad Enchantment which detail Monet’s vision problems, especially in the 1920s when he was painting our Japanese Bridge (61.36.15).”
From your colleague Lynn Dunlap, a document that record the many gifts of Anne and Hadlai Hull. Detailed information and research is provided for Jean Metzinger’s Fields of Flowers in Bloom, near Caen, 1904.
From your colleague Lynn Dunlap, here is a biography of Anne Dalrymple Hull, with more information on the painting she gifted to Mia, Jean Metzinger’s Fields of Flowers in Bloom, near Caen, 1904, 2012.83.
Your colleague Dick Ploetz, a member of the Legacy Study Group, is sharing a tour he developed for the McQuinn Silver Gallery featuring legacy gifts from the McQuinn and Bell families. Corresponding object files for the tour will be posted under Permanent Collection, Decorative Arts.