Research Resources

Anishinaabe to Zapotec: Native Arts of the Americas

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

 

Safari through Art

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.

Safari Through Art final

Living Arts of Africa

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).

Living Arts of Africa final

Also attached are tips for touring the African Galleries:

Tips for Touring African Art with Young People

and Touring the African Galleries

IPE CE Workshop on Cultural Competence

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:

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

 

 

Book Recommendation on Visual Intelligence

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.

Bonnard’s Dining Room in the Country

“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/