Adam Gopnik on De Chirico and Man Ray’s Premonitions of Modernity
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short video from Sotheby’s with good information on De Chirico and Man Ray:
Adam Gopnik on De Chirico and Man Ray’s Premonitions of Modernity
Research Resources
Tour Toolkit
Here is a direct link to our Tour Toolkit.
David Hockney exhibitions
Two articles from your colleague Terry Nadler:
David Hockney Drawings Morgan Library NYC 2020
Hockey exhibition in Paris 2020
and a video from NGV:
The Kangxi Emperor Scroll
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, an informative video:
The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour’ is an ingenious creation depicting the lives and lands of 17th century Southern China. Part of an original monumental work comprising 12 scrolls, Scroll VI was cut into seven fragments and separated in the early 20th century. Professor Claudia Brown, custodian of Scroll VI at Phoenix Art Museum, discusses this masterful artwork with Sotheby’s Chairman Kevin Ching. Learn how the scroll was created and discover the hidden meaning behind the colours and characters. As the centrepiece of our ‘Fine Classical Chinese Paintings’ (8 October | Hong Kong) pre-sale exhibition, Sotheby’s will unveil this precious and prized treasure to the public for the first time in over a century.
Art Break on 09.15.20 and 09.18.20
Here is a recording of the Art Break with Debbi, looking at the work of some contemporary women artists through different lenses:
Art Break Contemporary Women Artists 09.18.20
Gender Power Workshop, October 29-30, 2020
From your colleague Jennifer Orton, an interesting free workshop through Northern Clay, 5:30 to 8:30 PM, October 29 and 30:
GENDER/POWER WORKSHOP WITH MAYA CIARROCCHI & KRIS GREY
Virtual Tour Resource Page
Training materials and videos for giving virtual tours will be posted here for your reference.
Virtual Tour Refresher on 12.14.21:
Virtual Tours at Mia (overview)
Virtual Tour Refresher presentation:
2021 Training_ Refresher of virtual tours, 12.14.21
List of virtual tour guides and docents, updated 3.4.21:
Virtual Touring List 2021 (3.7.21)
Videos of training sessions held this fall 2020:
9/29 and 10/1: Overview of virtual tours at Mia
10/8 and 10/13: Adult and University virtual tours
10/6 and 10/14: School virtual tours
Video: General instructions on how to use Zoom for the first time, from Cozy Grammar:
How to use Zoom for the first time
Video: General instructions on how to host a meeting on Zoom, from Cozy Grammar:
Templates to use when contacting tour requestors:
Suggested template for initial contact for school tour
Suggested template for initial contact for university tour
Suggested template for initial contact for adult private tour
School Tours. Training videos for working with Google Slides:
General introduction to the master Google Slide template for school and AAG tours
How to move slides and images within a presentation
How to insert a contextual photo and credit line
How to save and insert a detail photo of the artwork
Adult/University Tours: Training videos for working with Google Slides:
General introduction to the master Google Slide template for adult tours
How to insert an image from the Mia collection page
How to add Mia credit line information
How to adjust image size and text
How to insert a contextual image and credit line
Additional tour resource videos, new 12.30.20:
Downloading and printing from PPT and PDF
Tour day support in Zoom, adult tour
Tour day support in Zoom, school tour
Sharing tour slides in Google Meet
Tour Support Volunteers (posted 3.25.21):
Hosting Virtual Tours on Google Meet
NEW resources posted on 2.1.21:
The docent study group “Let’s Talk Tours” met to discuss virtual tour experiences (for adult and school tours). Here is a recording of that meeting, where participants shared the slides from their various tours:
Brown Bag for virtual school tours, on 2.1.21:
Notes from Brown Bag:
Brown Bag virtual school tours
Slides from Brown Bag (includes best practices for creating engaging Google Slides):
Brown Bag for Virtual School Tours
Virtual Tour Experiences (this will continue to be updated. Send any new reflections to Kara to post):
Virtual Tour Experiences_ 11.14.20
And here is a summary of some tips shared so far from Ginny Wheeler (11.17.20):
And here is the link to the video of our information session on 11.12.20, where people who have given virtual tours shared their experiences:
Info session on virtual tour experiences
Examples of virtual tours
Sample virtual tour for adults of Living Clay exhibition by Mary Ann Wark: Ikebana Association
Sample tour slides: Virtual tour of Living Clay
Sample book tour from Ginny Wheeler, slides and notes: Island of Sea Women Virtual Book Tour
And notes from the book tour: Island of Sea Women Tour Notes
Sample tour from Terry Edam: 09.17.20_A_DH_Terry E_Catholic League_View
And here are some questions from Terry’s tour: window view questions
To read more about some experiences with virtual touring, check out the September issue of the Docent Muse:
We have some examples of student interaction in classrooms for Creativity Academy:
Zoom example: Creativity Academy
Google Meet example: Creativity Academy
Tour development and research resources
Here is a PDF containing all the images in the Art Adventure sets. All these images have great content within the AAG booklets, accessible within the main menu, Programs/AAG/AAG sets.
Sample virtual tour, 8.18.20
On August 18, we had a sample virtual tour presented via Zoom. Here is a link to the video of that tour:
Sample virtual tour for Ikebana Association
And here are the sample tour slides:
Innovative Prints by Mary Cassatt and British Modernists: Insider Insights
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a video from the Met:
Innovative Prints by Mary Cassatt and British Modernists | Insider Insights
Learn about Mary Cassatt’s groundbreaking color aquatints and a dynamic series of linocuts produced by early-20th-century British artists in this discussion with Met experts in conjunction with the exhibition Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Collectors’ Collections.
Repatriating African Art
From your colleague Margo Squire, “Protests have strengthened calls for Western institutions to repatriate priceless cultural artifacts. Museums in Africa are ready to receive them.”
Kehinde Wiley
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a great video from Sotheby’s:
Summer Talks | Artist Kehinde Wiley and The Duke of Devonshire
Kathleen states “It will change the way I use our Wiley piece and many of our other works by artists of color.”
Art Talk: ‘Madame Cézanne’
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short video from the Detroit Institute of Arts:
Art Break: Dutch Art of the 17th century, July 7 and 10
Here are the materials from the Art Break on July 7/10. This is a link to the video
and the chat:
Here is a copy of the slides:
And on the IPE site, we have some other information. Search for Dutch Art to access Linda Krueger’s excellent OLLI tour outline and a Docent Muse with an informative article by Linda.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, an article and short video on artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith:
National Gallery of Art Acquires Its First Painting by a Native American Artist
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s work addresses questions of identity and appropriation.
Video on Winslow Homer
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short video on Winslow Homer from the Met:
Essential characteristics of Baroque Art
Here are some short PPT videos completed for the last docent class, discussing the essential characteristics of Baroque Art:
Using lapis lazuli to get ultramarine pigment
From Kathleen Steiger, an article from Art Daily on how painters in the past used lapis lazuli to make ultramarine pigment:
ULTRAMARINE – How did the old masters make their ultramarine
Art Talks from the Detroit Institute of Arts
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a playlist of short curator-led art talks from the Detroit Institute of Arts:
Implicit bias, IDEA conversations
Here are the slides from the IPE conversation about implicit bias, on May 14 and May 21:
Architectural History of Mia
Here is a video of the Art Break on the architectural history of Mia on June 9 and June 12:
Architectural history art break
Here is the chat file:
Architectural history Mia chat
And here are Debbi’s slides: