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.
From your colleague Karen Kletter, a tour outline and supporting documents, with the following introduction:
“To people who live on the East and West Coasts (Florida, New York, California) WE live in
Flyover Land. All the states you ‘fly over’ on a flight from NYC to LA. People on those
airplanes look down and see endless farm fields or tiny towns or vast mountains. But we know there is more to this place we call home. Based on MIa’s collection we’re going to take a tour of Flyover Land.”
Let’s Talk Tours, April 16, 2019
Jim Allen, “The Bumpy Road from Academic Art to Impressionism”
Focus was the 1800’s and what was happening historically, socially, artistically. The topic proved to be too big to include the World so Jim narrowed it down to primarily France. See the detailed tour outline below and supporting documents, including some photo props:
Cecelia Beaux, Mrs. Beauveau Borie and Her Son, Adolphe
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Delacroix’s experiments with color
From your colleague Linda Krueger, a detailed tour outline for the tour she developed entitled “Middle Class Takes Over Art World. Dutch Republic, 17th Century.” In this document, you will find loads of great information on the time of the Dutch Republic and how our art reflects that time:
Here are public tour topics and object recommendations for 2018:
From your colleague Linda Krueger, a synopsis of her popular and informative tour on Chinese landscape painting:
Here is a list of objects used on the book tour for The Birds of Pandemonium by Michele Raffin
Here are the object lists for the public book tour of The Submission, by Amy Waldman, in September of 2018:
From your colleague Ginny Wheeler, a compilation of themes and objects for touring Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the book tour of July 2018:
From your colleague Ginny Wheeler, a compilation of themes and objects used in the June 2018 book tours:
Here is a generous tour-related document developed by the Math and Art study group, led by David Fortney.
From Docent Ginny Wheeler, a compilation of objects used on the book tour of the Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead:
From Docent Ginny Wheeler, a compilation of objects used on the public book tour of Homegoing in April 2018:
From your colleagues Lynn Brofman and Sue Hamburge, a tour focused on jewelry in Mia’s collections:
From your colleague Josie Owens, an idea for a tour capped by a participatory activity connected to Native American Art.
Josie says, “If anyone wants to use my supplies, I am happy to share them. They are all laminated and very nice. I shared the tour idea and a photo of the curatorial decisions reached with Jill who loved it.”
Here are the instructions:
You Be the Curator tour and activity
And here is a photograph that shows how the final layout looked:
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a shared tour for the holiday season focused on food:
Your colleague Dick Ploetz, a member of the Legacy Study Group, is sharing a tour he developed for the McQuinn Silver Gallery featuring legacy gifts from the McQuinn and Bell families. Corresponding object files for the tour will be posted under Permanent Collection, Decorative Arts.
Attached are final checkout tour outlines for many members of the Docent class of 2015:
“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:
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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!
