“Current Conversation” is the title of our new monthly tour highlighting current issues through works in the galleries. Learning Innovation staff have been conducting these tours. As tours are given for each topic, they will be added to this post.
Juline Chevalier, Environment and Art tour:
Current Conversation Environment and Art JC
Debbie Hegstrom, Gender Equity tour:
Sheila McGuire, Immigration tour:
From docent Susan Arndt, a tour outline for school groups, focused on the importance of trade routes for exchange of goods and ideas. She also includes a great participatory activity for the kids, no props or extras needed for it!
Tour Objective: This tour introduces visitors to the arts of China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India. The tour examines what we can learn about culture and history from careful observation and discussion of Asian artworks and also introduces aesthetic principles that show what these cultures value in the production of art.
This self-guided activity sheet, developed by docent Ginny Wheeler, could also be used for a contemporary art tour for teens and adults by developing a theme and transitions that tie the works together. Here is a possible theme:
Contemporary Art: Finding Connections
This tour/activity is about connections…the viewer and the art, the artist and tradition, the artist and the past, the art and today’s world. How do we connect with art? How does the artist connect the past and present?
Tour Objective: The purpose of this tour is to guide visitors to see how different artists have used the same visual elements in countless variations to create unique works of art. It examines how the artist’s choices affect the viewer’s experience of the work.
Tour Objective: To engage visitors in looking at a broad overview of the art of indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America from ancient times to the present, and to give visitors an understanding of the diverse cultures and histories of these peoples.
Anishinaabe to Zapotec – Native Arts of the Americas
Below is the updated cultural considerations handout, to review before touring the Americas Galleries:
Art of the Americas – Cultural Considerations 2017
Tour Objective: By looking at real and imaginary animals in art, help children discover the many ways animals, or ideas about animals, have been used throughout time and in many different places.
Tour Objective: This tour introduces visitors to the diversity of the museum’s collections by showing them a sampling of our most celebrated objects.
Absolutely Fabulous – Highlights of the Institute’s Collection final
Tour Objective: This tour explores the rich diversity of African art through close study of masks, textiles, sculptures, and other objects from various parts of the continent. The collection is strong in the areas of West and Central Africa; however, be sure to include objects representing other regions as well (East, South, and North Africa–which includes Egypt and Morocco).
Also attached are tips for touring the African Galleries:
Tour Objective: To look closely at art objects made by numerous ancient cultures to discover common aesthetic and practical concerns, and to examine how such factors as environment and technology influenced art production.
Tour Objective: This tour introduces visitors to the museum’s European collection, from the Middle Ages to the mid-18th century.
Below is some information on the symbolism embodied in Renee Stout’s Crossroads Marker:
Attached are the brief tour planning worksheets for the junior docent highlights of world art, 1600-1850.
Group 1: (not submitted)
Group 2: Ceremonies and Celebrations Tour Sheet final
Group 3: People Who Made History Tour Sheet final
Group 4: Passion for Place tour sheet final
Group 5: Love, Honor, Betrayal tour sheet final
Group 6: Symbolism in Art tour sheet final
For better search results, the object files, if submitted, will be tagged with the Group Tour topic key word (see below). If you search for the keyword and object file, the search result should pull all tour files into the search results.
Group 1 keyword search: Fashion/Trends object file
Group 2 keyword search: Ceremonies object file
Group 3 keyword search: History-people object file
Group 4 keyword search: Passion-place object file
Group 5 keyword search: Betrayal object file
Group 6 keyword search: Symbolism-art object file
Click on the link here, to watch the training session for the Water Is Life program.
This document includes the themes and objects selected for some of the junior docents’ 2016 checkout tours. Thanks to Josie Owens for compiling the document!
The six group tour outlines are posted separately under Shared Tour Outlines, but they are also included here, together:
Dead Serious_Tour Planning Worksheet final
Ancient Ideals of Wabi Sabi tour worksheet final
The Face of Spirituality tour worksheet final
Esteemed animals_Tour Planning Worksheet final
Ancient Chinese Trendsetting tour worksheet final
Animals Friend or Foe_Tour Planning Worksheet final
The object files are posted separately, but if you search by a group tour key word and the words “object file,” the results should include your tour files. Following are the key word searches for each tour outline:
Group 1 search: friend or foe object file
Group 2 search: trendsetting object file
Group 3 search: face of spirituality object file
Group 4 search: dead serious object file
Group 5 search: wabi sabi object file
Group 6 search: esteemed animals object file
This is a group tour developed by junior docents, 2015-2016 (Group 5, Ancient Ideals of Wabi Sabi). The object files for this tour are posted separately.
This is a group tour developed by junior docents, 2015-2016 (Group 4, Dead Serious: Various Beliefs of the Afterlife in China ). The object files for this tour are posted separately.
This is a group tour developed by junior docents, 2015-2016 (Group 3, The Face of Spirituality). The object files for this tour are posted separately.
This is a group tour developed by junior docents, 2015-2016 (Group 6, Esteemed Animals). The object files for this tour are posted separately.