In this Brown Bag, we discussed engagement strategies for middle and high school students, as well as covered the new school program ‘Discovery Days” and re-energizing 11:15 tour groups. Here is the recording of the Brown Bag:
Here are the slides:
Spring cultural fluency training with the Autism Society of Minnesota:
Presentation slides:
Handout:
For all guides, please complete the appropriate feedback form for attendance credit:
or
Online cultural fluency training and feedback (for those who missed our in-person session)
Welcome to the resource page for the exhibition Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989.
Please let us know of any useful resources we can post here.
Leslie Ureña’s exhibition lecture on March 7:
Shape of Time Curator Lecture 3.7.24
Mia Press Release: Minneapolis Institute of Art Explores complex array of Contemporary Korean Art in New Exhibition
Korean History with Dr. Frank Chance on March 19:
Video of Korean History lecture
Presentation slides:
Korean History Overview Slide List
Video, Cultural Fluency Training with Mia Front of House Staff:
Pronunciation Guide with Jung Sook Wendeborn
Shape of Time pronunciation session with Jung Wendeborn
Teachers Guide by Bridget Gallagher-Larkin:
Shape of Time Teachers Guide_FINAL
Final panels and labels:
Large Print:
GCA242231_SoT_LargePrintLabels V1
Final checklist:
SoT at Mia_Checklist_03072024 final
Exhibition layout:
(to come)
Content resources
From your colleague Cara Richardson, Memory of the Dead and Responsibility of the Living : Noh Suntag’s Forgetting Machines (2006-2007)
An article about the exhibition: Craft and Stone, Korea’s Artistic Odyssey from 1989 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
From your colleague Margie Crone, more information about Kyeok Kim, on Instagram video
From your colleague Margie Crone, an Instagram post on artist Minouk Lim: Minouk Lim info on canes
From Hyperallergic, a review and information on artist Minouk Lim: Stories That Need to Be Told.
Minouk Lim article: South Korean Artist Minouk Lim Talks About Her Creative Practice And Being Part Of Para Site’s ‘Curtain’
Kyungah Ham, An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch
Do Ho Suh, from Art 21: “Some/One” and the Korean Military
Ju Se-kyun: Instagram post from the PMA
Ju Se-kyun: New Grammar of Representation to Shed Determined Representations
From your colleague Margie Crone, a video of Korean performance using mats, in connection to Suki Seokyeong Kang’s works: Traditional Korean Performance Story Ep.13 춘앵무 (Chunaengmu)
Suki Seokyeong Kang: A conversation in Ocula
From Frieze: Suki Seokyeong Kang’s All-Enveloping Landscape
From your colleague Jung, the dance performed for Suki Seokyeong KANG’s artwork.
Also from Jung, a Korean article with photos of the mat.
From K-Art Now: Artist Son Donghyun, From Traditional Portraits of Contemporary Figures to Studying Korean Paper in the Spirit of Traditional Korean Landscape Painters
Article on Donghyun Son: Portraits of a pop artist called Jacko
Interview : Yoo Eui Jeong, céramiste (you need to translate the website to English)
Interview (includes the piece Headless): MICHAEL JOO
DAM Blog post, includes info on Michael Joo work: Art that Speaks to Race, Gender, Climate & Other Current Issues
Article: SANG HEE YUN–BEWARE LACQUER
Sang-hee Yun: ‘Ottchil’ artist reshaping Korean craft with modern twists
Byron Kim, Synecdoche, 1991-present: National Gallery of Art label
Byron Kim: Art History Perspectives on Synecdoche
Heinkuhn OH: Left Face
Heinkuhn Oh bio and other information from Korean Artist Project
From your colleague Jung Wendeborn, a video of students performing the national gymnastics.
Context resources
From your colleague Margie Crone, an article on the popularization of Korean culture:
The “Korean Wave” and the Expansion of South Korean Culture
Portraits of Korean Kings: Rare portraits provide a peek at kings
From your colleague Martha Bordwell, her memoir, Missing Mothers, is in part about Korean adoption. She has also published some articles in the Korean Quarterly. Her book is available through online retailers, or you can reach out to Martha for it, too.
From your colleague Deb Baumer, info on a Korean exhibition running now at the Hammer Museum
Here is a recording of Curator Valéria Piccoli’s training in Gallery 255, of Latin American Art at Mia:
This Brown Bag gave an update on spring school tours and offered tips for behavior management in the galleries.
Here is the recording:
And here are the slides:
Exhibition labels and panels:
GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2
GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL
GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL
Curator Casey Riley’s talk:
Here are the videos for Part 1, from 12.13.23:
Here is the video for Part 2, from 12.20.23:
Here are the complete slides:
12.13 and 12.20.23_New on View
This is a resource page for the December 2023 public tour, Celebrating the Season, Cross Currents format.
Last year’s training, link here to the Tour Break, includes good background on all 4 celebrations we are again focusing upon:
Kwanzaa (Tue, Dec 26, 2023 – Mon, Jan 1, 2024)
Hanukkah (Evening of Thu, Dec 7, 2023 – Fri, Dec 15, 2023)
Christmas (Mon., December 25)
Yalda (Thur, Dec 21)
Here is the Cross Currents flyer for December:
Cross Currents Flyer Template_December 2023 public tour
Additional information on James Tissot:
Watercolor of The Magi Journeying in the Brooklyn Museum.
Article: Contrasting Visions Of Painter James Tissot, The Secular And Sometime Mystical Realist
Tissot lecture notes_DH:
Here is the video:
Photo processes and techniques in In Our Hands 11.7.23
Here are the slides:
Our December public tour is in-gallery conversations (Cross Currents). Guides will be stationed in G243, G250 or 254, G357, and G362.
Cross Currents Flyer Template_December 2023 public tour
The theme is “Celebrating the Season: learn how countries around the world celebrate the season of rebirth and renewal.”
Training for this tour is already available, December 2022. Click on this link to access the Tour Break information from last year for Yalda, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas.
Lecture with Bob Cozzolino and Jill Ahlberg Yohe:
Reimagining Native/American Art
The slides are too big to post, but see the checklist for the artworks.
The checklist:
Reimagining Native and American art_Checklist April 12 2023.docx
Here is the feedback form to use, if you receive visitor reactions or comments within the exhibition:
The exhibition runs until May 27, 2024.
Here is the video of our session with Curator Andreas Marks, on the Root Collection ceramics, from 10.10.23
Part 1 of the exhibition, Runs September 2, 2023 – February 25, 2024:
Collage/Assemblage Part I: 1940-1989, part 1
Collage/Assemblage Part I: 1940-1989, part 2
Collage/Assemblage Part I: 1940-1989, part 3
Part 2 of the exhibition, Part II: 1990-Now, runs February 24, 2024 – August 18, 2024
Collage/Assemblage Part II: 1990 to now
Here are the videos of the training with Curator Mai Yamaguchi in Umetarō and the Ken Matsubara screens:
As we gather exhibition resources for guides, we will post here. If you come across any resources that are helpful in preparing for tours, please let Kara or Debbi know, and we will add those.
Curator lecture:
Slides from lecture:
In Our Hands_ Guide Training Oct2023
Curatorial lecture on photographic processes:
Photo processes and techniques 11.7.23
Cultural fluency and logistics training on 10.25.23:
cultural fluency and logistics 10.25.23
Slides from cultural fluency/logistics session, includes Native relations statements:
In Our Hands cultural fluency 10.25.23
Teacher’s Guide:
Final labels:
CGA242010_G255_IOH_Deck_Labels_V3
GCA242110_IOH_BarryPottle_Schematic_Label
Final panels:
IOH_Intro_Entrance_Texts_FINAL
Final layout:
to come
IOH themes and concepts guide discussion:
Summary of themes and concepts
Audio guide transcript:
In Our Hands_ Audio Guide, transcript, all stops
Transcript of all videos in the exhibition:
In Our Hands_ Video transcripts, all videos
Virtual tour, with speaker notes, by Marne Zafar:
In Our Hands virtual tour_A_KZ_Marne Z (1) notes
Self-guided tour of queer artists represented in IOH, by Nora Stewart:
PBS documentary:
The American Buffalo by Ken Burns
From the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco:
Alaska Native Art: These videos are part of an immersive online experience developed with the Alaska Native Heritage Center.
Exhibition Programming and Logistics:
Pronunciation Guide:
Native Pronunciation Guide_IOH
Information on Virgil Ortiz (15 minute mark of video)
Fall issue of Ramsey County History, focused on Dakhóta culture and language:
RCHS-History-Fall-2023_Full-Issue_Web
From Elizabeth Winga, check out For the People at the Guthrie through Nov. 12 is a moving experience with humor that parallels in execution & content with In Our Hands – collaboration, decolonization, Roya Taylor & more!
From your colleague Kay Miller, some resources:
James Luna and Wendy Red Star are featured: Rebodying Stereotypes: Contemporary Indigenous Artists and the Body
Tom Jones Zeroes in on Ho-Chunk Visibility
Will Wilson’s Portraits of Survivance
and Talk – The Arnold and Augusta Newman Lecture Series: Will Wilson
Website for HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFEDERACY, in particular the article on the influence on democracy.
Website for Cayuga Nation
And Jolene Rickard on the Women’s Nomination Belt
Article by Lucy Lippard, Esthetic Sovereignty
Meet the Artist: Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo)
From your colleague, Kate Christianson:
From your colleague, Nancy Kelly:
Parker McKenzie student photos
From your colleague Elizabeth Winga,
Excellent interview last March of Henry Payer, Jr., a[MUSE] II: In the Studio: Henry Payer, Jr.
Here is our school guide Brown Bag from 9.27.23, with a focus on Art Adventure tours, upcoming gallery changes, and discussing nudity with students/chaperones:
Brown Bag school guides 09.27.23
Here is a PDF of the slides:
Here is the training with Tia Keobounpheng:
In the October 2023 Cross Currents, the theme is Telling Stories: Gather around works of art to look, listen, and tell your own stories.
Guides will be stationed in Galleries 213, 280, 365, and 379. Following are some resources for each gallery, to help prepare for your assignments. If you find additional resources you wish to share with your peers, email those to Debbi or Kara to add here.
Gallery 213
Check out all objects on view in G213
Enshrined Buddha, 1850, with audio stop
and Burma Enshrined Buddha Object File
And article on an enshrined Buddha in the Asian Art Museum collection:
Crowned and bejeweled Buddha image and throne
Ceremonial vessel in the form of a Water Buffalo, 1000-300 BCE (this is an Art Adventure object, so check out the booklet with its entry, in People and Their Environments)
Thailand Walking Buddha object file
Prajnaparamita, late 12th-early 13th century (with audio stop)
General information on Buddhism:
Introduction to Buddhism and subsequent articles, Khan Academy
Buddhism/Hinduism/Jainism, lecture by Debbi Hegstrom, 2019
Gallery 280
Jim Denomie, lecture with Nicole Soukup:
Curator lecture on the Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie
Video playing in the exhibition: The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie, exhibition video
Video interview with Jim Denomie from the Muskegon Museum of Art: Jim Denomie: Challenging the Narrative (note, great information is included about some works in our show.)
From the Bockley Gallery: Jim Denomie bio
Gallery 365
Gallery training (video link) with Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Leslie Ureña.
Another Look exhibition page on Mia website
Gallery 379
How might visitors feel when they find out the “true story” of the missing curator is a fiction? What are visitor expectations of the information they find in the museum? What is a period room and how does it “tell a story”?
Mark Dion (pronounced Die-On), Curator’s Office (we recommend bringing a little flashlight with you to point out details within; flashlights are by the attendance clickers.)
Here is the ArtStory on the Curator’s Office. Click on “Details” and “More” in the tab headings to learn great details to point out to visitors.
Here is a video of Mark Dion discussing the work.
Articles about the work:
Artforum: Mark Dion speaks about his latest installation
ArtNews: The Curator Vanishes: Period Room as Crime Scene
Bio and more: Mark Dion: Art 21
Here are some resources to learn about Jim Denomie and our exhibition, The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie.
Lecture by Nicole Soukup:
Curator lecture on The Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie
Video playing in the exhibition:
The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie video
Here is the exhibition page, also with the video from the exhibition:
The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie
Here is the video of our training with Leslie Ureña on Another Look, in the Harrison Photography Gallery.