Videos

Resources for Mary Sully: Native Modern

Exhibition page 

Mary Sully: Native Modern

Runs March 15, 2025 – September 21, 2025
Gallery 276

Talks at Mia

“Mary Sully: Native Modern” presented by Philip J. Deloria is Professor of History at Harvard University

March 16, 2025 at 2 PM

Tickets: https://new.artsmia.org/event/talk-mary-sully-native-modern

Videos

  1. “Mary Sully: A Reclamation,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/mary-sully, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 14, 2024

This is a great overview of Mary Sully–interview with her great nephew.

2. “Mary Sully and the Women’s Arts of the Great Plains,” YouTube, St. Louis Art Museum,
December 19, 2024. https://youtu.be/2Pt_1IZl4sU?feature=shared

The 2024 Donald Danforth Jr. Lecture on Native American Art was given by Philip J. Deloria, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History and the Chair of the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature at Harvard University

 

Newspaper Articles

Angeleti, Gabriella, “ The late Dakota artist Mary Sully in four key works at the Metropolitan Museum,” The Art Newspaper, August 24, 2025. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/26/dakota-artist-mary-sully-exhibition-metropolitan-museum

 

Pochoda, Elizabeth, “The Unexpected Art of Mary Sully,” The Magazine Antiques, February 24, 2020 https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/mary-sully-art/

 

Radsken, Jill, “A colorful figure,” The Harvard Gazette, July 11, 2019, 

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/07/in-sioux-aunts-work-historian-finds-art-on-fringes-of-modernism-tradition/

 

Pochoda, Elizabeth, “Mary Sully’s Astonishing Art Pictures American History through Indigenous Eyes,” The Nation, September 27, 2024. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mary-sully-native-american-artist-metropolitan/

Ahlberg-Yohe, Jill. “Mary Sully: Ahead of Her Time”. In Hearts of Our People. Exhibition catalogue. Organized by Mia, June 2019, p.103

 

Deloria, Phil. Becoming Mary Sully. Toward an American Indian Abstract. University of Washington Press, 2019. 

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Our resource page for all things Giants! Please share other materials you would like to post with Marina Moua, at mmoua@artsmia.org.

Exhibition lecture:

VIDEO 2.28.25

Exhibition lecture slides:

Giants Guide Lecture PwrPt

Exhibition Labels

Giants_Labels_V7_All

 

From the VET training on March 3, 2025:

Design PDF with the information on the textiles: GCA252694_GiantsCreativeDeck V7 (1)

Virtual Tour of Giants with Casey Riley (and password is artsmia to view the video):
https://vimeo.com/1062509647?ts=0&share=copy

Cultural Fluency Session moderated by Virajita Singh, with Rohan Preston, Marne Zafar, and Bobby Rogers (and password is artsmia to view the video):
https://vimeo.com/1062540367?ts=0&share=copy

 

 

Video of Giants, with the Deans:

Meet the Giants: Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Video: Inside Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz’s Oceanside Mansion | Open Door | Architectural Digest

The digital issue of Vanity Fair: The Secrets of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Museum-Ready Art Collection

 

Exhibition layout:

Giants_CD 5_3_as of 2024-12-18 (1)

 

Marne Zafar’s Giants’ tour

GIANTS The Dean Collection Marne UPD5 Mar2025

Addendum I: GIANTS Barkley L. Hendricks Landscapes Marne UPD6 Mar2025

Addendum II: Meleko Megosi Bio Details mz

Addendum III: Meleko Megosi, Bread, Butter and Power 

Addendum IV (from Kay Miller): Giants – Bread, Butter, and Power – Meleko Mokgosi

Teacher’s Guide:

LIN252699_Giants_TeachersGuide V3 (2)

 

Articles and other resources, add to the peer resource Google Doc:

Please share other resources with each other in this Google Doc. If you find good artist profiles, etc., please include in the doc. This is arranged by the sections within the exhibition, noted on the tabs to the left.

 

 

January 21 and 24 class

We went on a walkabout to explore the Highlights tour, Introduction to Mia!

Here is a PDF of the key ideas and questions, with additional resources hot-linked within so you can learn more:

Highlights K-6 2025

Here are slides covering the 10 artworks in the set:

to come

Black History Month tours 2025

Here is the resource page for the BHM tours in 2025.

To find out what is currently on view, click on this link to a live Google doc.

Here is the in-gallery training from Jean Ann Durades that took place on 1.23.25:

VIDEO Part 1

VIDEO Part 2

VIDEO Part 3

Here are the slides:

JAD slides for BHM tour

Marne Zafar gave a G3 presentation on January 25. Here are her images and information to help support BHM tours:

G3 BHM 4 Artists Marne Feb2025

G3 BHM Art Images Marne Feb2025

Deborah Roberts included:

G3 BHM Art Images Marne UPD Feb2025

G3 BHM 4 Artists Marne UPD Feb2025

 

 

December 17 and 20, 2024 class

Here is a link to the Zoom session, focused on Artists’ Inspirations and discussion of the substitutes worksheet:

December 20 class recording

Here are the presentation slides:

12.17 and 12.20 class Artists Inspirations

Here is a link to a Google Doc, where you can share your ideas for the substitutes for the assignment.

Finally, here is the link for the schedule of January tours to participate on.

The full tour observation and participation instructions are here:

Observation and participation 2025

And here is the school tour participation reflection form:

School Guide Tour Participation Reflection Form

At the Moulin Rouge, exhibition resource page

Below is a link to the recording of Galina Olmsted’s talk on the upcoming exhibition, At the Moulin Rouge:

Recording of At the Moulin Rouge Guide Presentation 9.18.24

Here are Galina’s slides:

Olmsted_Moulin Rouge_Guide 9.18.24

Here are the labels:

Toulouse-Lautrec labels

Here are the panels:

Toulouse-Lautrec panels

 

Here is a video Galina recommended: Allan McNab Virtual Lecture: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Celebrity Culture of Paris | February 25, 2021

From your colleague Anna Bethune: Taylor Swift credits inspiration from Loie Fuller and acknowledged this during her Rep tour – song Dress -she had a Loie Fuller style dancer on stage… AM using this information for a teenager tour in french on Saturday – have to speak their language! FIlm is available, link here.

From your colleague Deb Baumer, a video: The Surprising Life of Toulouse-Lautrec: The Painter of Parisian Nightlife

October 2024 in-gallery public tour

Here are resources for he October in-gallery public tour!

October 3 to 31 , Thursdays through Sundays, 1-3 pm; Thursday evenings, 6-8 pm

Theme: Gather around works of art to look, listen, and tell your own stories.
No tour October 11: Yom Kippur holiday

Galleries: G255, G275, G302, G322

G255 resources

For information on the Tibetan Buddhist shrine, and other things in the supporting gallery, see the Tibetan Shrine resource page on our guide website.

Note that there may be curiosity about the sand mandala process. We have the videos still linked on the Mia website, so you could show some examples of the nuns doing the sand mandala, at this link.

Here is a link to the object file for the Yamantaka Mandala.

Here is a link to the object file for the sculpture of Green Tara.

 

G275 resources

Here is a link to the recording of the training with Valeria Piccoli, 9.26.24

Here is a recording of Valeria’s previous training on Gallery 255 (which included some of the same artworks).

Website for Myrlande Constant

From the Indigo Arts Gallery, a bio and more information on vodou flags: Myrlande Constant artist

Elsa Gramcko: Hyperallergic review of an exhibition, The Gap Between Things and Their Names

ELSA GRAMCKO: THE INVISIBLE PLOT OF THINGS (in this article, check out the photo of Gramcko with her painting, No. 6!)

More information on No. 6, by Gramcko

Information from Rose Stanley Gilbert on Gramcko: Elsa Gramcko and oil pump– Prop and Elsa Gramcko – No. 6, 1957

 

G302 resources

From the Art Institute of Chicago a short video: Archibald John Motley Jr.’s Nightlife | Art Institute Essentials Tour

From the National Endowment of the Humanities: Block Party: Archibald Motley painted African Americans having a good time.

From the Nasher, some great info within an exhibition page for Motley’s first exhibition: Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist

Artist bio on Wikipedia: Archibald Motley

Biography of Victor Gatto

Romare Bearden Foundation

Khan Academy/Smart History (about a similar subject): Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians

Romare Bearden The Art Story (extensive biography)

Romare Bearden 3 musicians PDF (with our painting)

Elmer Bischoff: Biography

From the Marin Museum, a virtual tour of Elmer Bischoff exhibition

From the Pacific Sun: Bischoff retrospective goes on display

And an article from 1988 on Victor Joseph Gatto, from your colleague Susan Arndt (scroll to page 56 for the article): The Clarion Spring 1988

Then we have a whole treasure of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings in the gallery!

From the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum: About Georgia O’Keeffe

 

G322 resources

Labels and panels for new artworks within this gallery

EUR252546 G322 Labels_EDIT (1) (1)

A defining thread connecting the works is the influence of Classical art, so you can trace how that appears in decorative objects, paintings, and sculptures within the gallery.

Wedgwood’s Anti-Slavery Medallion: Josiah Wedgwood’s Medallion

Voltaire, Rousseau and Franklin were often pictured together as important philosophers of the 18th century

Here is a link to the object file for the Portrait of George Washington. Note that this is also a work in the Art Adventure set, American Stories, so you can look at the entry there.

The portrait of Countess Bucquoi is in the Art Adventure set, Dressed for the Occasion, so check out the entry for more info on the artist and the sitter.

Information on Juliette Recamier from the Library of Congress and Wikipedia.

From SmartHistory: The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction

 

Tibetan Buddhist Shrine resource page

Welcome to the resource page for the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine!

We have some required cultural fluency training to complete for all guides.

Here is the video link of the Part 1 of the Cultural Fluency Training on August 26, 2024

Part 1 cultural fluency training 08.26.24

If you attended in person, here is a link to the feedback form.

If you were not able to attend, please take the time to complete the online feedback form below after watching the video, and you will receive the attendance credit:

Online form for attendance credit of Part 1, Tibetan Buddhism Cultural Fluency

Here is a link to Part 2 of the Cultural Fluency training, lecture with Matthew Welch:

9.17.24 Part 2 of cultural fluency training on Tibetan Buddhist Shrine

If you were not able to attend, please take the time to complete the online feedback form below after watching the video, and you will receive the attendance credit:

Online form for attendance credit of Part 2, Tibetan Buddhism Cultural Fluency

Here is a link to Thupten Jinpa’s lecture from the opening program:

Sacred Spaces in Tibetan Buddhism

 

Check out the Teacher’s Guide: Tibetan-Shrine-Teachers-Guide_FINAL-10.2024

 

Here is the Stop and Chat Tibetan training manual:

Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Stop and Chat 10.24.24 rev

and the additional text for the Prayer Beads:

PRAYER BEADS

For those with iPads, here’s a link to all mandala videos from Mia, on a YouTube playlist.

Here is the recording of the Stop and Chat:

Stop and Chat training 10.24.24

Here are the slides from the presentation:

Stop and Chat Tibetan Buddhist Shrine (1)

And here are Debbi’s notes on an overview of Tibetan Buddhism:

Tibetan Buddhism_ Overview

Here is a link to a Mia video on the making of the Green Tara sand mandala:

Green Tara Sand Mandala at Mia

 

Information on Tara:

Tara: A Powerful Feminine Force

Frontline: PBS, Understanding Tibetan Buddhism. Scroll to the end to open other sections.

For questions related to the Shrine Room’s provenance:

Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room Provenance Statement

 

Resources from staff and speakers

From Professor Namdul:

From the Mia blog: The Tibetan Sand Mandala: A Short History

Check out Understanding Tibetan Buddhism from PBS Frontline (scroll to bottom of page to click on other sections)

Here is a video from the National Museum of Asian Art:  Tea and Conversation: Tibetan Buddhist Shrines

Peer resources

From your colleague Jeanne Lutz, and article from Mill City News: Historical Tibetan Shrine Room at Mia

From Kate Christianson:

“An Introduction to Buddhism,” by the Dalai Lama, translated by Thupten Jinpa; it has an excellent glossary with terms, like compassion and wisdom, defined by the Dalai Lama himself.
and
“How to Read Buddhist Art,”  by Kurt Behrendt, part of The Met’s “How to Read” book series; a nice overview of Buddhism (from a human history standpoint), with discussions of Vajrayana art and, of course, excellent examples from the Met’s collection.

From your colleague Mary Costello, a video on lost wax casting: Lost-wax metal casting by The Rubin Museum of Art

From your colleague Marne Zafar, a video from a current exhibition on mandalas at the Met: Artist Interview—Tenzing Rigdol Commission-Mandalas | Met Exhibitions

An article by Bruce Robbins from 2021 Muse: Art and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism Jun Muse 2021

From your colleague Deb Baumer: “Possibly this would be helpful to learn more about Tibetan Buddhism.”: Ancient Wisdom. Modern Times.

From your colleague Margie Crone, a film suggestion: Seven Years in Tibet, on Netflix

From your colleague, Lynn Brofman: “Cortland Dahl talks about Tibetan Buddhism with Sharon Salzburg on her Metta Hour podcast.
I thought it was an excellent description of unique elements of Tibetan practice.”