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.
The mission of The Chipstone Foundation is to promote and enhance appreciation and knowledge of American material culture (emphasizing the decorative arts) by scholars, students and the general public.
They do this through various means, some of which are publications (Ceramics in America and American Furniture) and also videos posted on ArtBabble.
Ceramics in America and American Furniture offer excellent online articles. Click on the journal you would like to explore, and separate issues are posted with articles.
Direct link to the publications page
One of the many ways Chipstone Foundation reaches out to the decorative arts, material culture and cultural history communities is through ArtBabble. ArtBabble is a cloud based video hosting service for art content and has been called the “YouTube of the Arts”.
Link to ArtBabble contents (direct links to video series are listed on the right)
Direct link to: The Minds of the Makers series
Here are the video links to the morning lecture, by Veronica Boix Mansilla:
Attached below is a PDF of the handout, detailing four routines:
Global T R Veronica Mansilla handout
In the afternoon, we used these routines in the galleries. Following are the objects and routines used by each of the facilitators.
Kara ZumBahlen
The 3 Whys: Edward K. Thomas, View of Fort Snelling, 1850.
Step Inside and Out: Netherlands (unknown artist), Lady at Her Toilet, 1650-1660.
Beauty and Truth: Wanbli Koyake, Anthropology: We’re Not Your Indians Anymore, 1995.
Ann Isaacson
Beauty and Truth: Armand Boua, Les Winzins de Djamtala 1, 2017 (Africa galleries)
The 3 Whys: Renee Stout, Crossroads Marker with Little Hand, Reaching, 2015, (Africa galleries)
Debra Hegstrom (plan attached for the Step Inside and Out exercise.)
Step Inside and Out: Chinese, Wu Family Reception Hall, early 17th century, 98.61.1
Plan for the routine: Step in, Step out GTR
Unveiling Stories: Japanese, People of Many Nations, 1649, 2015.30
Objects used for group practice session:
Beauty and Truth: Roman, Doryphoros, 120-50 BCE, 86.6
3 Whys: Tibetan (Gyuoto monks), Yamantaka Mandala, 1991, 92.44
Veronica Boix Mansilla
Unveiling Stories: Aliza Nisenbaum, A Place We Share (Cargill Gallery exhibition)
Below is a link to a brief video in which artist Andrea Carlson discusses her work Sunshine on a Cannibal, on display in Gallery 375, in “George Morrison in Focus.” The work is oil, acrylic, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper.
From Nancy Kelly of the Legacy study group, an article on James J. Hill:
The Städel Museum produces “digitorials” in English to accompany its major exhibitions, providing some great connections between artists or give further insight into different eras or artistic movements. One current digitorial explores connections between Matisse and Bonnard, and another provides excellent insight into the years of the Weimar Republic in Germany. We have works in our own collection that correspond to those shown. On the link below, scroll down the page to click on the Digitorials. Have fun exploring!
From your colleague Jane Grunklee:
Did you know Matisse and Bonnard were friends for more than 40 years, first in Paris and later in Cote d’Azur? Bonnard’s Reclining Nude Against a White& Blue Plaid (1909) from the Staedel inspired Matisse to create Large Reclining Nude (1935) from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Be sure to open the link to the brilliant Digitorial at the end of the article, it’s a feast for the mind and eyes.
Here is a direct link to the Digitorials at the Städel Museum. This is also a resource now listed in the Research Resources/Online Resources. Besides the exhibition on Matisse and Bonnard, there is an excellent exhibition on Monet and the Birth of Impressionism:
Eyewitness Views
Friday, November 17, 2017
12:30-1:30 PM, at Mia
Gather at the second-floor entry to meet your docents, adjacent to Doryphoros in the Rotunda.
This tour is free and open to museum guides + one guest. If you’re bringing a guest, please register for two people and provide his/her name.
RSVP to Michael Bennes by Thursday, November 16, mbennes@artsmia.org
Note: Michael will be away from the office Nov. 2-8. Leave a message and he will confirm your reservation when returns.
Please remember that by signing up for outreach tours you are making a commitment to your colleagues. If you need to change your plans, please cancel your reservation so that your spot can be given to someone on the waiting list.
In this session, we had a presentation from Padma Maitland, our new curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. He mentioned a great exhibition that was held at the Smithsonian a few years ago, on Puja, and here is a link to the educators’ guide. If you click to the second chapter, you will find some great background information on this Hindu practice of reverence:
We have further online resources for China and South and Southeast Asia located under Research Resources/Online Resources. Scroll down the results to find more educator guides and other online information.
Here is a transcription of the ideas developed during the team tour and theme discussion:
From Kara, an interesting video series from the National Gallery, London:
“‘The audacity of Christian art: The problem of painting Christ’ is a seven-part series in which Dr Chloë Reddaway, Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Curator in Art and Religion at the National Gallery, explores the theological and artistic challenges involved in painting Christ as fully human and fully divine, and reveals some of the ingenious and surprising ways in which Renaissance artists responded.”
Check out the video series:
The problem with Christ, first video
And interesting National Gallery video from your colleague, Kathleen Steiger:
Here are additional resources from Alex Bortolot and Nicole LaBouff, from their October 5th IPE training session on the Period Room Initiative:
(NOTE: The video of this training is available under the “Video” tab on the main menu.)
Living Rooms: The Period Room Initiative main website
Map showing Col. John Stuart’s Life in South Carolina
The Getty Museum has produced and linked to some fabulous short videos on making art (Greek vase, medieval manuscript, and more!):
“The best of Asian art at the tip of your fingers for use in the classroom or at home.” This is the blurb on the Asian Art Museum’s Education page. Explore numerous instructive videos and essays on a host of Asian cultures.
From your colleague Angie Seutter, here is a link to a MN Original segment that was filmed on the painter Aziz Osman, whose work is currently featured in the exhibition I Am Somali:
From the accurate docent pronunciation study group, we have a guide for pronouncing German names and terms. This particular guide was developed in connection with the Martin Luther exhibition, but it can be applied to other German works, too:
From the Accurate Pronunciation Study Group, here are some best practices for pronunciation, as well as the credits for the posted pronunciation guides (French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and German):
From the accurate pronunciation study group, we have a guide for pronouncing French names and terms associated with Mia objects:
From the accurate pronunciation study group, we have a guide for pronouncing Japanese names and terms associated with Mia objects: