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September 2024 public tour: Art and Activism

As Art and Activism is a standard topic within the options on the tour request form, it will remain a useful resource moving forward. We have a live Google doc for viewing as well as the PDF for downloading below:

Art and Activism public tour Sept 2024

We had also created a peer resource for Art and Activism, so we are sharing the link to that peer resource document as well. If you find other artworks that will fit well within this tour topic, please add to this resource.

Here is a good introduction to Activist art, in an article found by your colleague Kate Christianson:

An Introduction to Activist Art

Reach out to one of the educators with any questions about the public tour.

Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper tour outline

From your colleague Marne Zafar, a tour outline shared for her tour of Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper:

The Seed Keeper Tour JAN 2024

Resource page for November 2023 public tour, Arts of Native America

The November tour theme is:

Arts of Native America
Experience the role of tradition and innovation in superb works of Native American Art.

General condensed Native relations statement:

The museum resides on the homelands of the Dakhóta people and their Anishinaabe and Ho-Chunk neighbors. Through gallery installations and future exhibitions, Mia pledges to make visible the creativity and ingenuity of Native artists from the past, the present, and the future.

From your colleague, Marne Zafar, a tour of Native American art, including works in the new reinstallation in G259-261:

Who Are We. Who We Are. Americas Tour 2023-2024 FINAL

Check out the Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie resource page (link here) for information on that exhibition.

Check out the tour break and other school tour materials on this topic, at this link.

Check out the Reimagining Native/American Art resource page for information on that gallery reinstallation at this link.

Check out our self-guided tour flyer for November:

Native American Heritage Month self guided tour

Peer resources:

Meet the Artist: Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo)

Urban Poverty tour

Here is a tour developed by Terry Edam for a sociology class at the U of MN:

Tour University of Minnesota March 2

Per Terry:

The topic is Urban Poverty with an eye on how museums historically have reflected in their art–and served–a more dominant culture and what museums like MIA have been doing to address this more recently. It’s part of a larger conversation about urban planning and marginalization.

From the Professor:
My students have been interested in ways in which institutions have become more inclusive of their representations of art as well as outreach efforts to a wider range of audiences.
Theme:
Seeing Yourself at Mia*: Cultural Inclusion and Community Outreach. *Mia translates to “Mine” in many languages.

Black History Month resources

Here are some resources for Black History Month or for giving tours focused on African American/Black American artists:

Mia’s website compilation for Black History Month

African American artwork currently on view:

African American artist/works on view, February 2024

Walkthrough with Mia Guide Jean Ann Durades (to come)

Tour Outlines

(If you care to share tour outlines. please email to Kara or Debbi, to include here.)

Rebecca Haddad_Celebration of African America Art History

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

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:

African Arts and Artists in-person tour

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:

Art + Identity

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 & Identity

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:

The Art Story

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:

Arts of the Ancient World

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

Arts of the Ancient World key ideas and suggested questions (in-person)

Animals and Art

Animals and Art_DH

Key Ideas and suggested questions:

Animals and Art key ideas and questions_DH

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:

North American art and artists

Book Tour September 2020: Island of Sea Women

From Ginny Wheeler:

Island of Sea Women Virtual Book Tour

Island of Sea Women Tour Notes

Tour: Children’s songs and art

Docent Bill Wilson has shared a tour outline for a children’s tour focused on connecting songs to art:

childrens-songs-and-art

It’s a Woman’s World Tour

From your colleague Nancy Kelly, a tour of women artists, with list of objects, detailed research on all, and a list of sources:

IT’S A WOMAN’S WORLD

Lenses or Points of View Tours

From the Let’s Talk Tours study group, Emily Shapiro and Kay Miller shared their OLLI tours, which used the lenses or points of view focus:

Emily’s lens tour -abbreviated version

Object list Lens tour – KM Let’s Talk Tours – Feb. 20, 2020 – Kay Miller-2

Not a Man’s World After All Tour

From your colleague Ginny Wheeler, a shared tour outline with works all by women:

Not a Mans World After All – 2019pages

Mysteries in the Museum Tour

From Docent Anna Bethune, “Works well especially with grades four through eight.
Set the tone by talking about the Museum being like a time machine that can enable us to travel through time and through space – the engine of the time machine is our imagination.”

Mysteries in the Museum_Bethune

Day in the Life of a Muse tour outline

From the Let’s Talk Tours study group, a tour theme on muses, “Day in the Life of a Muse.” Here’s the introduction to the theme:

This tour led to some very interesting discussions about what is a muse, different types of
muses, sexual or nonsexual, men and women, perhaps places. There was discussion about artists who were muses for one another and their tempestuous relationships, some beautifully inspirational and some very sad.

Tour Theme on Muses