Spring cultural fluency training with the Autism Society of Minnesota:
Presentation slides:
Handout:
For all guides, please complete the appropriate feedback form for attendance credit:
or
Online cultural fluency training and feedback (for those who missed our in-person session)
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:
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
Here is a recording of the anti-ageism training with CHAI on December 13, 2022:
(VIDEO is no longer available. We only could post it for one month per CHAI.)
Note: The recording is only available for one month.
After you watch the recording, please fill out their feedback survey:
Here are the presentation slides:
to come
Here is the recording from Part 1 of Curator Yang Liu’s Art Break:
And here is the audio transcript:
Transcript for Art Break with Yang Liu Part 1
Here is Part 2 on 7.21.21:
And here is the Part 2 transcript:
Art Break transcript Part 2 Yang Liu 7.21.21
Here is Yang’s article:
LIU Yang To Please Those on High article – Copy
And here is the link to the website academia.edu he mentioned, where you could search for over 50 articles he has posted after you register to use the site: https://www.academia.edu/
Here are some other resources:
A video from Sotheby’s with Dr. Tao Wang: The Story Behind the Ancient Works in the “Magnificent Ritual Bronzes” Auction
From AIC: Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes
From Khan Academy: Shang dynasty ritual bronze vessels
From Khan Academy: Tigers, dragons, and, monsters on a Shang Dynasty Ewer
From HarvardX: How ancient Chinese bronzes were created
Mia video: Chinese Bronzes, Of Us and Art: The 100 Videos Project, Episode 19
Here is the original announcement:
Here are the two FAQ documents:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Guide Programs Redesign Followup FAQs
As the listening sessions are program-specific, contact Kara ZumBahlen or Debbi Hegstrom, via email, for links to those sessions.
Here are links to the Art Break with Curators Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Nicole LaBouff:
The Cross Currents tour was developed to allow more flexibility to museum visitors on the weekend. This tour is a melding of an Ask Me and a Spotlight tour assignment, and visitors are able to choose their own Mia adventure, traveling to as many tour stops as they like. As an added bonus, the Cross Currents format provides guides with a touring option that offered more engagement with visitors.
Each month, we use a different theme for the tour. The themes are broad, allowing plenty of options for selecting a key artwork or gallery to present throughout the museum.
For the tour, six to eight guides select a gallery and pick one object or a small group of objects to present around a general theme. For example, “Come to Your Senses” is a tour that explores how our senses help to tell the story of art. Guides would be stationed in their gallery for two hours and receive two credits.
The day of the tour, visitors are given a museum map with the locations of the stationed guides. Visitors move through the gallery stops in any rotation. Guides present on their object/s for about 10 minutes and then encourage visitors to move on to another stop. Additional tour maps will be available at each stop. Guides wear an “Ask Me” button and are encouraged to invite visitors to participate in the tours.
Here is a sample of the handout available to visitors on the weekends. Note this is a template that we adapt to each tour, depending on the theme and choices of the guides:
The Fall 2020 CIFocus newsletter also included a great article by guide Bryan Peffer, outlining his experience of giving a Cross Currents tour:
Here are the recording and slides from the art break on March 24, with Jean Ann Durades:
Jean Ann’s slides:
02.13.21_A_KZ_Jean Ann D_February public tour
Here is a link to the video of our required cultural fluency training on January 26, 2021, with guest speakers Michelle Edwards and Geoffrey Cohrs:
Here are the PowerPoint slides:
TO COME
If you watched the video of the training, here is a link to the feedback form to complete the requirement:
Tackling Tough Topics feedback form
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has developed a great online resource:
Here is the recording of the Art Break on January 12, 2021, regarding the quilts of L’Merchie Frazier:
And here are Nicole’s PPT slides:
Frazier Target Wing – smaller size
Here is the video link for our anniversary celebration:
IPE Volunteers Anniversary Celebration 12.9.20
And here are the evening’s slides:
IPE 12.9.20 anniversary celebration
Here are Pujan’s slides from the presentation:
TO COME
And here are some support documents. One provides full text of photos and memories (which some had to be edited for time) and also Bill Wilson, Docent Class of 2015, has provided the full text of his wonderful poem.
Class 2015 docents Bill Wilson anapestic-poem
Here are some documents from Rose Stanley-Gilbert for the 25 year docent anniversary:
Here is a recording of the Art Break for Thursday, November 19:
How the West Was Seen Art Break tour 11.19.20
Marne Zafar has also made her notes available:
Here is a link to the recording of the Art Break given by Alice Anderson, Manager of Audience Research and Impact, and Rachel Wolff, Audience Insight Analyst:
Here is a PDF of their presentation slides:
FY20 Audience Surveys Presentation_Volunteers
And here is a copy of the chat:
Here is a direct link to our Tour Toolkit.
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
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.
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:
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.
Here are the slides from the IPE conversation about implicit bias, on May 14 and May 21:
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: