Water Is Life 2022
Here is the recording of Sheila McGuire’s training on October 18, 2022:
Here are Sheila’s slides:
WorldOfWaterGuide Training 2022
Additional materials:
Water is Life Document for Guides 2022
Tour Topics and Themes
Tour Break for October 2022 public tour: Viva l’Italia
Here is a link to the recording:
Here are Debbi’s presentation slides:
Larry Simon found an archived link for information on the Castiglione, The Immaculate Conception:
Henry Bannarn, Cleota Collins, object file
From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert:
September Cross Currents Public Tour Hispanic Heritage
Here is the recording of the training on 8.17.22:
September Cross Currents Hispanic Heritage
And here is a PDF of the slides. All the resources are live linked, so you should be able to click on the blue links to read more about many of the works:
Cross Currents for Hispanic Heritage month (September)
Here is the map of Spanish colonization:
Colonization of North and South America
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.
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
From Mary Ann:
mia.James Phillips Cosmic Connection 1971 2022
and with no questions/answers: mia. object file.Intertwinedwo anwers
Some information on Afrofuturism from Kay Miller:
African Arts and Artists
Here is the recording of the Tour Break on African Arts and Artists with Sheila McGuire:
05.10.22 Tour Break African Arts and Artists
Here is the chat:
Tour Break Africa chat 05.10.22
Here are the slides from the presentation:
African Arts and Artists In-person tour slides
And here are the key ideas/suggested questions:
Art and Identity
Here is a link to the recording:
Tour Break: Art and Identity 04.21.22
Here is a link to the slides:
Here is the attendance feedback form:
Attendance feedback form for Art & Identity
Here are the key ideas and suggested questions:
Art and Identity art and artists key ideas and suggested questions
Peer resource document (add your ideas!):
Art and Human Connections (Social and Emotional Learning tour)
Here is the slide deck, with suggested artworks:
Human Connections in person tour
Training on Human Connections in person tour
Here are key ideas/suggested questions:
Human Connections SEL tour in person tour
We had a Tour Break on March 24, with Sheila McGuire. Here is a link to the recording:
Tour Break: Art and Human Connections (SEL) 3.24.22
Peer resource document (add your ideas!):
European Arts and Artists
Recording of the Tour Break on 02.04.22:
Tour Break on European Arts and Artists
Here are the presentation slides:
European Arts and Artists in person tours
Key Ideas and Suggested Questions:
European Arts and Artists key ideas and suggested questions (in person)
Online resources for art history:
SmartHistory: The Center for Public Art History
From the Metropolitan Museum: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Highlights of Mia’s Collection
Tour Break, 1.27.22 recording:
Highlights tours for school and adult audiences
Here are the tour presentation slides:
Sheila’s slides for younger students:
Highlights of Mia’s Collection for K-5 in person tours slide deck
Debbi’s slides for older students//adults:
Highlights of Mia’s Collection_Gr 6-12_in person
Key ideas and suggested questions:
Highlights of Mia’s Collection for K-5 in-person tour
Highlights of Mia’s Collection Gr 6-12 key ideas and questions
Arts of the Ancient World
Tour Break, 1.18.22, recording:
Slides from presentation:
Tour Break_ Arts of the Ancient World
Here is a direct link to the short video “Digital Reconstruction of the Northwest Palace, Nimrud, Assyria”
Arts of the Ancient World key ideas and suggested questions (in-person)
12.2.21 Sample book tour, peer training
Here is a recording of Guide Lynn Dunlap’s book tour for Where the Crawdads Sing. (This was an optional peer training event):
Where the Crawdads Sing sample book tour
Here is the chat:
Native American Arts and Artists
Native American Arts and Artists slide deck
Native American Arts and Artists key ideas and suggested questions
Here is the Tour Break with Amanda on 2.24.22:
Tour Break Native American Arts and Artists
Tour Break chat:
Tour Break Native American Arts and Artists chat
Animals and Art
Key Ideas and suggested questions:
North American Arts and Artists
Here is a link to the recording:
Tour Break on North American Arts and Artists, 05.17.22
Here are the presentation slides:
North American art and artists (2)
Resources for the tour on North American Arts and Artists:
North American arts and artists key ideas and suggested questions
Slides:
In the Presence of our Ancestors Teachers’ Guide
Check out this terrific guide to the exhibition In the Presence of Our Ancestors!
In the Presence of Our Ancestors Teachers Guide
In this, you’ll find some great information on the artists Thornton Dial, Lola Pettway, Joe Minter, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, and Leroy Almon.
Cross Currents Tours
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: