Italian pronunciation guide
From the accurate pronunciation study group, we have a guide for pronouncing Italian names and terms associated with Mia objects:
Research Resources
How to pronounce artists’ names
From Juline Chevalier, here are two helpful pronunciation guides for modern and contemporary artists’ names:
The Science behind Mona Lisa’s Smile
From your colleague Jean London, a fascinating article from the Atlantic on da Vinci:
Insight on Marcel Duchamp
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, here is a video link from LACMA, with artist Ed Ruscha discussing Marcel Duchamp’s work:
Max Beckmann exhibition
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a great Art Daily article on Max Beckmann and an upcoming exhibition of his work:
WAM Tour – Jizi: Journey of the Spirit 10/20
The Weisman Art Museum invites the Twin Cities Art Museum Guides (TCAMGC) to tour:
Jizi:Journey of the Spirit
Friday, October 20, 11:00am-12:00pm
Meet the tour guides at the front desk on the gallery level 1.
TO REGISTER: https://tcamgcjiziwamtour.even
Jizi: Journey of the Spirit, a memorial retrospective curated with the artist’s son, Chunchen Wang, presents a selection of Jizi’s large scale ink paintings and a monumentally-sized rarely-seen, scroll. For more info visit: http://wam.umn.edu/calendar/ji
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. Space is limited. 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 your spot can be given to someone on the waiting list.
Portal to research materials at British Museum
Here is a link to the research page for the British Museum. Here you can access the Collection search, online research catalogs, blog posts, and other research projects:
Metropolitan Museum Timeline of Art History
This is a great first stop on any research project, the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Calendar at Mia
Here is a direct link to the “Calendar” page on artsmia.org, where you will be able to find the schedule for talks, films, concerts, classes, and Third Thursday events:
https://new.artsmia.org/visit/calendar/
Artist installation and lecture at the Weisman
From Jamee Yung, Director of Education, Weisman Art Museum:
This is a fun opportunity to see an artist install a new commission and attend the lecture. Please forward to your guides.
Artist Talk with Beth Lipman
Wednesday, September 27 | 7:00 p.m.
Lipman will be speaking about her newly commissioned piece at the Weisman, One Portrait of One Man, inspired by WAM’s collection of Marsden Hartley’s art, and how she uses glass compositions to capture a moment in time.
Lipman’s work explores aspects of material culture through still lives, site-specific installations.
You can also see her at work in the galleries installing One Portrait of One Man during museum hours from September 26 – 29.
October event from the Minnesota Museum of American Art
From Courtney Gerber, Minnesota Museum of American Art:
I would like to pass along an event coming up in October that may be of interest to museum staffer and volunteers. Deana Haggag, CEO and President of United States Artists, will be in conversation with Venessa Fuentes (Poet/Jerome Foundation) and Tricia Heuring (Public Functionary/MRAC/St. Mary’s) on October 18th at 7 p.m. They’ll be speaking about vulnerability, power, and equity related to arts funding, specifically the support of individual artists. Ananya Dance Theater will kick-off the evening with a brief performance. This gathering is being co-presented with the Ordway and will take place there. It’s part of the M’s programming for the exhibition We the People. Please have a look: http://mmaa.org/deanahaggag/
Courtney Gerber|Curator of Learning and Engagement
Direct link to Collections page on artsmia.org
Below is the direct link to the Collections search page on artsmia.org:
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.)
Book recommendations
From your colleague Jean London, in response to the growth mindset training, some books that explore the experiences of others:
I recently finished EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid-a book about people forced out of their war torn country-not identified in the book purposely. The characters were people one could easily identify with and the story was heart wrenching. Very well written.
The other book is After the Prophet by Lesley Hazelton about the conflict between the Sunnis and the Shias. Truly helped me understand the divisions and the alternate meanings of jihad among other things. Very helpful.
Article about “listening” and the power of questions
From your colleague Fran Megarry,
“I have been doing the Rubin Museum Listening experience this week and found this article particularly interesting.”
The author is Krista Tippett, and the article comes from the Rubin Museum’s Listening experiences:
On Listening _ Rubin Museum of Art
Fran also recommends the Rubin Museum’s listening challenges, tied to their current exhibition The World Is Sound. Here is a link to the sign-up page, and all the past challenges are also available:
Rubin Museum’s listening challenge
IPE CE, required session on growth mindset and feedback
We have video links from two of our sessions of the required training on growth mindset and feedback. If you were unable to attend any of the offered sessions, please watch whichever session you feel has the best quality and respond to the survey link (link will be sent the first part of October). Here are the video links from September 28, in the Pillsbury Auditorium:
Here are three video links from the session on September 19, in the Friends Community Room:
Video part 1, growth mindset and feedback training session
Video part 2, growth mindset and feedback training session
Video part 3, growth mindset and feedback training session
Here is a summary of responses gathered in the training sessions, for the question “What do you do to make visitors feel welcome?”
Transcription of post its from CE session growth mindset
Review materials, for brushing up on open-ended questions, etc.:
IPE CE session on Growth mindset and feedback
Here are the slides from the September presentations for the required CE session on growth mindset:
Growth-Mindset-Powerpoint-Sept_2017-
Attached is the diagram used within the presentation:
Following are further articles on growth mindset:
Growth Mindset for a More Peaceful Empathetic World
Dweck how to develop growth mindset about teaching
Here is a video link to a TED talk by Dr. Carol Dweck:
Below is a link to Dr. Dweck’s website, Mindset:
Takashi Murakami video
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, here’s a video interview with Takashi Murakami, including “Great Manga shots and a wonderful interview with the artist and shots of his workshop.” The video was uploaded by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Takashi Murakami video interview
Educator Resources on the Art of China, South and Southeast Asia
Attached are PDFs of Educator Resource packets from other museums (available online but PDFs are attached here) to aid in research and development of tours or activities:
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The_Art_of_South_and_Southeast_Asia_A_Resource_for_Educators
From The Frist, Center for the Visual Arts, Secrets of Buddhist Art: Tibet, Japan, and Korea:
Frist 2017.02.18_Buddhist_Ed_Guide
From the Freer Sackler, the Art of Buddhism:
Puja, online exhibition from the Smithsonian. (Go to Chapter 2 to get great background information on Puja and Hinduism.):
Cultural Appropriation
Ann Isaacson and Jean Ann Durades teamed up for an in-gallery discussion on cultural appropriation, attended by the staff of LI.
We all pondered the questions, “What is cultural appropriation?, Why now?, and Who gets to decide?” We ended up having a lot more questions than answers, but it was a lively, interesting discussion that bears continuing at Mia.
Attached are 3 articles that Ann and Jean Ann found thought-provoking on the topic: