Research Resources

Religious Literacy Workshop: Cultural Fluency Spring 2023

Part 1 of our Spring 2023 cultural fluency training was the lecture by Dr. Jeanne Kilde, Director of Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota, on March 30, 2023. Here is a link to the recording:

Religious Literacy Workshop: Developing Your Practical Toolkit for Talking about Religious Art with the Public

Dr. Kilde provided some handouts for this session:

Religious Diversity in Minnesota Timeline (1)

Religious Diversity Overview of US Religious Landscape Final (1)

Here is a PDF of Dr. Kilde’s slides:

PPT FINAL-MIA Religious Literacy for Guides (1)

If you attended in person, you filled out a feedback form after the lecture. so you do not need to complete any extra feedback. We were able to record your attendance at the event.

If you were unable to attend, please watch the recording, then take a minute to fill out this brief feedback form to receive attendance credit for the session:

Feedback form for Part 1 of training: Religious Literacy Workshop

 

Miao textiles and silver jewelry/hats

From Wikipedia: According to the 2000 censuses, the number of ‘Miao’ in China was estimated to be about 9.6 million. The Miao nationality includes Hmong people as well as other culturally and linguistically related ethnic groups who do not call themselves Hmong. These include the Hmu, Kho (Qho) Xiong, and A-Hmao. The White Miao (Bai Miao) and Green Miao (Qing Miao) are Hmong groups.

Here is something I found about the silver hats on display: Silver Ornaments of the Miao Ethnic Group
And an exhibition by the Bowers Museum, on Miao silver: https://www.bowers.org/index.php/current-exhibition/miao-masters-of-silver

A short video:

Miao Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

Black History Month resources

Here are some resources for Black History Month or for giving tours focused on African American/Black American artists:

Mia’s website compilation for Black History Month

 

African American artwork currently on view:

African American artist/works on view, February 2024

 

Walkthrough with Mia Guide Jean Ann Durades (to come)

 

Tour Outlines

(If you care to share tour outlines. please email to Kara or Debbi, to include here.)

Rebecca Haddad_Celebration of African America Art History

Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents 11.17.22

Here is the recording of the training for the December 2022 Cross Currents public tour, Winter Solstice:

Tour Break: Winter Solstice December Cross Currents

Here is the chat:

Chat for December Cross Currents

Here are the presentation slides, with the resources:

Tour Break_ Winter Solstice Cross Currents

And here are the best practices for engagement from guides who have given multiple Cross Currents tours, and some information and reminders about the tour format:

Best Practices for Cross Currents tours

 

Peer training in Galleries 374 and 375, June 15, 2022

Jean Ann Durades, Rose Stanley-Gilbert, Mary Ann Wark presented on new works on view in Rituals of Resilience and Gallery 375. These are works all by Black artists. The training is 5 videos in total.

Peer training Part 1

Peer Training Part 2

Peer Training Part 3

Peer Training Part 4

Peer Training Part 5

Here are also supporting materials from their talks, along with some additional resources provided by other guides:

From Rose:

Gio Swaby, Pretty Pretty 3, 2020 WORD

Alfred Conteh – Sauce – WORD

From Mary Ann:

mia.James Phillips Cosmic Connection 1971 2022

mia. Wangechi Mutu

and with no questions/answers: mia. object file.Intertwinedwo anwers

 

Some information on Afrofuturism from Kay Miller:

Afro-Futurism Explained

Afrofuturism Explained: Not Just Black Sci-Fi | Inverse

StaffSavvy Training resource page

Welcome to our Resource Page for StaffSavvy, our tour scheduling system. As we continue to train on this system, we will post materials on this resource page.

Here is a link to the slides from our Info Sessions in November 2023:

Training 11.17.23 StaffSavvy session

Here is a link to the video for our refresher on Sept. 20, 2022:

StaffSavvy refresher 09.20.22

Here is a link to the slides:

Training 09.20.22 StaffSavvy session

 

Here is a direct link to StaffSavvy:

StaffSavvy

Here is the recording for our introduction on May 26, 2022, to the new scheduling system, StaffSavvy:

Introduction to tour assignments in StaffSavvy

Here is the chat file:

StaffSavvy chat 05.26.22

Here are the slides:

Training 5.26.22 StaffSavvy session

The three videos we sent out to introduce the system are here:

Video 1: Introduction and changing your password

Video 2: Updating your photo and profile

Video 3: How to do a checkout or leave request

To send a group message to multiple guides in StaffSavvy, go to My Account/My Messages, then select “Send a New Message” in the top menu bar. In the “To” line, you can enter multiple guide names. Click on “Send Message” to send the message. If you are uncertain if all guides in your tour assignment are using StaffSavvy messaging, you can use email addresses provided in the guide rosters.

Bisa Butler

Your colleague Pat Gale provided copy from the AIC catalog on Bisa Butler’s work currently on display in Rituals of Resistance:

Bisa Butler notes from Catalog

And your colleague Sue Hamburge found a link to the actual photograph on which the quilt is based:

Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia]
Askew, Thomas E., 1850?-1914, photographer
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector

and a link to the jpeg: photograph