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Statue of a lion, research resources

From CIF guide Nahid Khan, some researched connections to our Statue of a lion.

I was doing a bit of reading and came across images in different books of lion figures from Islamic arts, and it might be relevant for the golden lion statuette from Muslim Spain.
Lion figure, presumably intended as a fountain head, 11th century CE, Cairo, Museum of Islamic Art (4305)
Couldn’t find on museum web site; doesn’t seem to have a feature that enables searching for specific objects.
Published in Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt, by Jonathan M. Bloom. Yale University Press / Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2007 (p. 98).
Lion de Monzon, 1000 – 1250 CE, Monzon de Palencia, Espagne
bouche de fontaine
Musee du Louvre
(This one obviously seems especially relevant … )
Incense burner (feline), 12th century CE, Iran
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Feline Incense Burner, 1100s, Central Asian region
Cleveland Museum of Art
Islamic bronze incense burner (feline), 11th century CE, region not specified (but I’m guessing Central Asia, because of similarity to the above objects with the exception of the one at the Louvre)
Phoenix Ancient Art (art dealer)
 Here are the links to the three feline / lion shaped incense burners from Iran at the MMA for the object file on the golden lion statuette from Muslim Spain:
Feline-shaped Incense Burner (of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’l-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi)
Dated A.H. 577 / A.D. 1181-82. Iran (Taybad).
Incense Burner (zoomorphic / feline).
12th century. Iran (probably Hamadan).
Incense Burner in the shape of a lion.
11th – 12th century. Eastern Iran or Afghanistan.

 

 

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Neighborhood Outreach

Broad updated pages and social media sites

Minneapolis Star Tribune has a website that is regularly updated with giving and direct engagement opportunities: Site is here.

MPR  has an on-going list of immediate Twin City needs and ways to help.

Map of food and other donation sites. Click on specific sites on the map for detailed information.

Financial Donations toward Rebuilding Businesses and Communities

Lake Street Council A nonprofit raising funds to help rebuild Lake Street businesses, many of which are family-owned and owned by immigrants and people of color. Donations are accepted here.

The Open Door Learning Center , 2700 E. Lake Street, Mpls works with immigrants and refugees providing free classes in ESL and work preparation.

West Broadway Business and Area Coalition is helping to coordinate a fund to assist and restore North Minneapolis businesses and community organizations.  You can donate through the Northside Funders Group  here.

The WFPC Mutual Aid Project is designed to share a collection of mutual aid funds and community resources, as well as provide local mutual aid networks with tools to employ political education and activism.

Partner Organizations Organizing Around Racial Justice 

COPAL MN (Communities Organizing Latinx Power and Action):  Its Facebook and Twitter accounts link people to information, events, and actions3702 E. Lake St., Mpls. 55406 612-767-3675

CTUL (Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha):  Long-term Mac partner org focused on workers’ rights, based in South Minneapolis; Facebook and Twitter accounts link people to information, events, and actions.

CUAPB (Communities United Against Police Brutality): involved in many public events and work on issues.

ISAIAH: A multifaith community organizing group Isaiah’s Facebook and Twitter pages link people to information, events, and actions.

BLVC: Black Visions Collective is developing Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership and building movements from the ground up. Site is accepting donations.

Voices for Racial Justice: Building power and strategies for racial justice using organizing, leadership training, community policy and research.

Showing up for Racial Justice: A network of groups working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice.

Food donations and Food Sorting

Bethlehem Lutheran, a center of food distribution in the Midway neighborhood of St. Paul.  436 Roy St., St. Paul.  Accepting food and financial donations and volunteer help. Facebook page is updated with needs.

On-going, food drops offs on Lake Street at the Midtown Global Market (South Minneapolis) and on West Broadway Avenue and Emerson (North Minneapolis), 11 am – 4 p.m. daily.  This is considered a pop-up food pantry for people in need who have lost access to neighborhood grocery stores on Lake Street or in North Minneapolis. https://twitter.com/daniellemkali/status/1266798456997318657/photo/1

Division of Indian Work 1001 E. Lake St., Mpls 55407, 612-722-8722, supports and strengthens urban American Indian communities. Cash donations preferred for the food shelf.  If you want to drop off food or hygiene items, please call ahead of time, so they can manage.

LIttle Earth Residents Association is seeking food shelf donations. The Little Earth Residents Association has been seeking food pantry donations.  You can make donations here  Call ahead to confirm if you would like to drop off items.

Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank listing of food shelves and emergency food needs throughout the Twin Cities.

Resources on Anti-racism

Moving from Cultural Competence to Antiracism

How Monique Melton Is Helping You Be An Anti-Racist

Trevor Noah on death of George Floyd and logic of looting

Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race | World news | The Guardian

From The Pause, On Being with Krista Tippett, Recommended listening and reading:

Read | “White Debt” by Eula Biss
Discussed in this week’s conversation, Eula Biss’s 2015 essay on racial privilege asks: “What is the condition of white life?” 

Read | “‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’” by Claudia Rankine
In the weeks since George Floyd’s murder, many have turned back to this 2015 essay, which asks what might come from the whole country moving closer to the grief that so many Black Americans carry every day.

Read & Listen | “Ode to My Whiteness” by Sharon Olds
The poet reads her poem on reckoning with her racial identity.

From the National Docent Symposium Council:

We believe that museums are uniquely in a position, even in these extraordinary times, to be trusted resources to turn to for information and exchange of ideas, and that includes all of us as docents and guides. One of the most comprehensive collections of relevant resources we’ve seen is by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. We encourage you to explore their “Talking About Race” portal, https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race

 

 

 

 

Dorothea Lange

Here are various resources on photographer Dorothea Lange’s life and work:

2020 Exhibition at MOMA: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5079

Piecing Together Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother” A MoMA curator unravels a mystery surrounding one of photography’s most iconic images.

Various audio clips on some of Lange’s photographs.

Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection

Video: Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning

 

Wenzel Friedrich chair

From your colleague Susan Arndt, “I found this catalog of his from the period. It was digitized from the Winterthur Library of Americana collection. You can flip through it and find our design of the chair and footstool, read the descriptions and see other designs.”

Catalog link

The Complicated Business of Plantation Tourism

From your colleague Kate Christianson, a recommended podcast:

The Complicated Business of Plantation Tourism

Kate says “It includes interviews with a historian, a guide and a reconciliation expert involved in consciously addressing slavery and the African American experience at places like plantations and Monticello–what they advocate, what they have encountered on their tours, related training, etc; how plantation  tourism profits are used, etc.  A good forum, with a lot of honest sharing from people calling in.”

Artists in Paris database

From Susan Jacobsen,

Artists in Paris is an open-access digital humanities and art history project that maps hundreds of 18th-century artists’ homes and studios. This website’s database contains an entry for 471 artists. All of these artists were “members of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture) between 1675 (when comprehensive address records began) and 1793 (when the Academy was disbanded during the French Revolution).” While it’s possible to search by artist name, drawing on personal knowledge of French 18th-century painters and sculptors, there is a handy Guide section that explains how to get the most out of the resource. Perhaps the easiest way to start using Artists in Paris is to filter by year, which produces color-coded markers on the map indicating addresses where artists lived. The color of the marker indicates the type of artist, such as history painter, engraver, or landscapist. Clicking on the markers displays information about the corresponding artist. For example, when filtering for 1778 there are 10 green markers indicating portrait painters, including Alexandre Roslin (1718-1793), who lived at four different addresses in Paris during his career. The principal investigator of the project is Hannah Williams, and the website was built by Chris Sparks. [DS]

Here is a link to the database: Artists in Paris

Veteran Art Summit in Chicago May 3 to May 5

From Mia staff, Jeanine Pollard, an interesting event in May:

NVAM TRIENNIAL & VETERAN ART SUMMIT 
On War & Survival
Exhibition May 3, 2019 – July 29, 2019
Summit May 3, 2019 – May 5, 2019
With a focus on the visual, literary, performative and creative practices of veterans, the National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) Triennial explores a century of war and survival while challenging the perception that war is something only those who have served in the military can comprehend. Throughout history, art has provided a frame to create meaning out of the complicated experience of war, seek justice and imagine reconciliation. The NVAM Triennial draws on this history to connect today’s veteran artists with the history of veteran creative practices and their impact on society over the past century. The NVAM Triennial exhibition opening coincides with the Veteran Art Summit. A series of presentations, workshops, panels, and discussions will be held May 3 – 5 at the Chicago Cultural Center, National Veterans Art Museum, and the DePaul Art Museum.
Triennial & Veteran Art Summit Schedule 

Summit Programs | Chicago Cultural Center
Friday, May 3, 2019 | 10:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday, May 4, 2019 | 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, May 5, 2019 | 10:00am – 3:00pm (Afternoon session at DePaul Art Museum)

Triennial Exhibition Openings
Friday, May 3, 2019 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm | Open/Closed at the National Veterans Art Museum (With open mic hosted by Warrior Writers)
Saturday, May 4, 2019 | 6:30pm – 9:00pm | Making Meaning, Convergence, Conflict Exchange, & Veteran Movements all open at the Chicago Cultural Center

Additional Triennial Exhibition Openings
Thursday, April 25, 2019 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm | Eric J. Garcia: The Bald Eagle’s Toupee at the DePaul Art Museum

Docent Handbook

From your colleague Fran Megarry, a recommendation for the new edition of the Docent Handbook. “The Handbook is concise and very clear and current.  It too considers some issues that we have all found difficult at one time or another while touring.”

Here is a flyer regarding the handbook:

FINAL Handbook flyer 1-14-19(1)

You can also find more information on the website for the National Docent Symposium:

https://www.nationaldocents.org

 

Local exhibition for They/Them Project

From your colleague Jennifer Orton, an exhibition from November 11-December 20 at the Sabes Jewish Community Center:

“They/Them Project is an ongoing podcast and photo series, giving gender nonconforming individuals a platform to be seen and heard, while educating all who listen about gender diversity. The project also gives us a chance to educate others by sharing the interviews through social media. The series is produced by Minneapolis-based celebrity and commercial photographer, Brent Dundore, originating as a way to document his journey as a cisgender person educating himself and challenging his own ignorance of gender.”

Find out more information at They/Them Project website.

National Docent Symposium Council

From your colleague Fran Megarry, Midwest Director of NDSC, is a link to the “Interchange” page on the website of the NDSC. According to the website, “In this part of our website, you will find articles and links about emerging as well as challenging topics facing our institutions that affect our docent practice. We hope this initiative will encourage exchange of ideas among our peers. The first topic for Interchange is Inclusion and Diversity.”:

NDSC Interchange

 

 

Alec Soth

From your colleague, Kathleen Steiger:

I came across this Youtube video (actually from 4 years ago) with photos and an interview with a Minnesota Artist – Alec Soth…we have some of his works at Mia.
He uses a large format Camera and the images he captures are great.  The first video (from SFMoma) speaks of the commission he had to photograph Silicon Valley and “the cloud”.  
The second video (MN Original) gives a good deal of background on how and why he does what he does:
One of his pieces is on view at Mia in G373.  It is one from his Sleeping by the Mississippi series. Here is a link to his website: