Tour Objective: The purpose of this tour is to guide visitors to see how different artists have used the same visual elements in countless variations to create unique works of art. It examines how the artist’s choices affect the viewer’s experience of the work.
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger,
Tour Objective: To engage visitors in looking at a broad overview of the art of indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America from ancient times to the present, and to give visitors an understanding of the diverse cultures and histories of these peoples.
Anishinaabe to Zapotec – Native Arts of the Americas
Below is the updated cultural considerations handout, to review before touring the Americas Galleries:
Art of the Americas – Cultural Considerations 2017
Tour Objective: By looking at real and imaginary animals in art, help children discover the many ways animals, or ideas about animals, have been used throughout time and in many different places.
Tour Objective: This tour introduces visitors to the diversity of the museum’s collections by showing them a sampling of our most celebrated objects.
Absolutely Fabulous – Highlights of the Institute’s Collection final
Tour Objective: This tour explores the rich diversity of African art through close study of masks, textiles, sculptures, and other objects from various parts of the continent. The collection is strong in the areas of West and Central Africa; however, be sure to include objects representing other regions as well (East, South, and North Africa–which includes Egypt and Morocco).
Also attached are tips for touring the African Galleries:
From your colleague Josie Owens, “this piece is very insightful and perhaps something to use in the future when we talk about diversity”:
BROKEN, DEFACED, UNSEEN: THE HIDDEN BLACK FEMALE FIGURES OF WESTERN ART
Following are some additional resources from the follow-up CE workshops we scheduled on Thursday, January 19, 2017 (1:30 – 3:30 PM) and Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 (10:30 AM – 12:30 PM). (These sessions were a follow-up to the “Curating Your Narrative” session with Heather Lou in December 2016.)
If you weren’t able to attend the sessions we had in December 2016, you may want to view the PowerPoint and video of Heather Lou’s presentation to IPE Volunteers. Enter the term “diversity” in the search box to quickly find the material.
Below are a few additional resources from Heather Lou:
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From your colleague, Debbie Lynch-Rothstein:
“I happened to catch this film on pbs this week & it helped me appreciate the sacredness of Native American objects & the power of talking or not talking about these objects.”
From Docent Kay Miller, a great article on scientist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian:
NYT article on Maria Sibylla Merian
From your colleague Jan Lysen, a series of videos covering the different eras on the Japanese timeline, “Little Art Talks”:
From your colleagues Kathleen Steiger and Boyd Ratchye, a wonderful NYT article on the restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece:
IPE Cultural Competency Sessions Powerpoint
Heather Lou, M.Ed.
Assistant Director, Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence
Office for Equity and Diversity, University of Minnesota
“The Docent Educator” was in print from 1991 to 2003. You can access all issues in this wonderful archive:
http://www.museum-ed.org/the-docent-educator/
The Docent Educator cover
(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:
Click on this link to explore the older video content from Mia:
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
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:
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
From your colleague Sara Wagner, a book recommendation:
Visual Intelligence Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life By Amy E. Herman
I mentioned this book after Jane Oden Stull talked to our class about touring with teens. She mentioned the author who trains people (NYC Police, FBI, etc) to perceive and communicate better through viewing art. She is an art historian who teaches others to hone their “visual intelligence,” a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use effectively.
“An extraordinary loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this work represents Pierre Bonnard’s dining room, along with his wife and cats, at his country house in Vernonnet, a small town outside of Paris on the Seine River. Rather than painting from life, Bonnard created the work entirely from memory, foregrounding his subjective responses over an optical experience of the interior and landscape.”
http://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/pierre-bonnard-dining-room-in-the-country/
This link takes you to a wonderful short video, Masterpieces of Chinese Painting, posted by the Victoria and Albert Museum; the video shows the process that needs to be followed to prepare and paint on silk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Dn2OkwlQg
This is a great online resource for educators that Susan Arndt found. It is from the Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and was tied to an exhibit on Hinduism titled Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion:
http://www.asia.si.edu/pujaonline/puja/lesson_contents.html