Videos

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.

Reimagining Native/American Art

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:

Guide feedback form

The exhibition runs until May 27, 2024.

Training with Andreas Marks on Root Collection of Ceramics

Here is the video of our session with Curator Andreas Marks, on the Root Collection ceramics, from 10.10.23

Root Collection Japanese Galleries 10.10.23

Collage and Assemblage, Training with Curator Dennis Jon 10.3.23 and 3.21.24

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

Training with Curator Mai Yamaguchi, 9.28.23

Here are the videos of the training with Curator Mai Yamaguchi in Umetarō and the Ken Matsubara screens:

Training: part 1

Training: part 2

Resource page for In Our Hands: Native Photography

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:

Lecture on 10.17.23

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:

LIN242151_IOH_TeacherGuide V3

Final labels:

GCA242010_IOH_Wall_Labels_V5

CGA242010_G255_IOH_Deck_Labels_V3

GCA242110_IOH_BarryPottle_Schematic_Label

Final panels:

IOH_Intro_Entrance_Texts_FINAL

IOH_Themes_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

Other resources

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:

IOH Queer Self Guided Tour_v4

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:

IOH_Info Sheet_Mia Guides

Pronunciation Guide:

Native Pronunciation Guide_IOH

Information on Virgil Ortiz (15 minute mark of video)

New accessions CE session

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:

Bently Spang video

From your colleague, Nancy Kelly:

Ryan RedCorn Portraits

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.

Brown Bag: School Guides, Fall 2023

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:

Brown Bag for School Guides_ AA tours 09.27.23 full

Tia Keobounpheng: Revealing Threads, MAEP

Here is the training with Tia Keobounpheng:

Tia Keobounpheng: Revealing Threads

Resource page for October 2023 Cross Currents: Telling Stories

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

Java Ganesha 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

Jim Denomie, The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie exhibition

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

Another Look training with Curator Leslie Ureña

Here is the video of our training with Leslie Ureña on Another Look, in the Harrison Photography Gallery.

Another Look training video

Training G353 with Bob Cozzolino

Here are the video links for the training with Bob Cozzolino in Gallery 353, Call and Response: American Watercolors in Conversation:

Part 1

Part 2

July 2023 Cross Currents Public Tour: Fresh Perspectives

This resource page will contain information to help prepare for a July 2023 Cross Currents assignment.

Cross Currents Flyer Template_July 2023 public tour

Theme of the tour:

Fresh Perspectives on Art: Reflect on evolving museum practices as we reimagine what art is and view artworks paired in unexpected ways.

Gallery 230 (Rotunda)

Thematic connection:

In the past, the Rotunda showcased the Classical sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome, giving prominence to the Eurocentric view of art history, where Classical sculpture is seen as one of the high points of (predominantly male) artists’ achievements. Now, the Rotunda is showcasing new accessions to Mia’s collection, better reflecting the diversity in the museum’s collection and the current curatorial approach to collecting and displaying work from artists (women and BIPOC) who historically have not had representation in these gallery spaces.

Artworks, see accession proposals for artworks on display:

Spring 2023 Rotunda Rotation Guide Proposals

Visitors might be interested in learning more about some of the other new gallery reinstallations or approaches. You can send them to check out the Americas galleries, to explore the contemporary work on display:

How to Shift Museum Space to Native Place

For Shiva and Parvati with Companions:

Mia blog post

Visit the colorful and vibrant South and Southeast Asian galleries:

With New Light: Mia’s Reinstalled Himalayan, South, and Southeast Asian Art Galleries

as well as Pujan’s training with us (search Pujan Gandhi to find the recording)

For the Chief’s Blanket: Navajo Chief’s Blankets: Three Phases

and Navajo Weaving Methods

For Lamar Peterson, a great article: Lamar Peterson: A Self-Portrait

From Kate Christianson, a gallery with good info on Navajo weaving: Donald Ellis Gallery

Gallery 255

Thematic connection:

Gallery 255 is set up as a mini-exhibition, “Night Life,” which presents 20 artworks from across Africa that address the various ways nighttime was, and in some cases still is, perceived and experienced. With the sounds of African nightlife in the background, these artworks speak to the richness and vitality of life after the sun goes down. Here the curator attempts to evoke a greater understanding of the context for the works by use of sound as well as a dark blue on the walls.

Note connections to some “fresh perspectives” on display in G250/254 (see articles below). For example, ancient Egypt art is included within the African galleries, reflecting a Curatorial approach to reconnect all aspects of African history. In the past, ancient Egyptian art was included within the ancient art galleries.

Articles about the African galleries re-design:

Inside the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s New, Improved African Art Galleries

Redesigned African Art Galleries To Open at MIA

Africa revisited: How the new galleries will change the way you see art museums

Gallery 318

Thematic connection:

Period rooms like our French salon used to be very static spaces, filled with decorative arts and furniture from that specific era of the room. With the Living Rooms Initiative, Mia sought to reinvigorate and reinterpret these spaces. Now the Salon is set up to reflect the use of the room, with a soundtrack and lighting scheme meant to better give a sense of its original context.

(Note: Bring a flashlight to this room to use, as it does become quite dark!)

Articles on the initiative:

Up All Night in the 1700s

Living Rooms: The Period Room Initiative

Mia’s Period Rooms

ArtStory on the Salon

Labels and panels:

Grand Salon labels and panels

Other notes:

Grand Salon_DH notes

Gallery 375

Thematic connection:

In this gallery, focus on the idea of “fresh perspectives” from artists, in the inventive use of traditional materials (e.g., Joe Overstreet’s canvases) and use of new materials, previously not seen in museum spaces (e.g., Harmony Hammond’s Chicken Lady). Also, in this gallery we have a focus on better representation of the diversity in modern art, with works by BIPOC and women artists prominently showcased.

Recording of training with Curator Bob Cozzolino:

Gallery 375 training 06.15.23

Bonus training G322 06.15.23

Resource page for ReVisión: Art in the Americas

This is the resource page for the summer 2023 exhibition ReVisión: Art in the Americas. “Ancient and contemporary artworks help us connect to land, people, and place in this exhibition from the Denver Art Museum’s Ancient and Latin American collections.”

July 1, 2023 – September 17, 2023 (Touring July 11 to September 10)

Panels:

ReV_Panels_Subpanels_AllSections

Labels:

(These are final as they will appear on the wall and cases. Note that the Mia objects in the exhibition are separated in the labels and are at the end of this PDF.)

Labels for ReVision 06.29.23

These are labels inserted into the checklists:

FINAL ReVision Labels_Mia objects

FINAL ReVision Labels_EDIT

Exhibition fact sheet:

ReVision Fact Sheet_guides

Curator Lecture:

Recording of lecture 6.20.23

PowerPoint lecture slides:

ReVision_Guides June 23_VP

Here are the checklists from DAM and from Mia additions:

ReVision Checklist_final

ReVision additions_Mia

Here is the layout:

To come

PDFs of the photo props:

Photos for ReVision tours_ Map of Latin America

Photos for ReVision tours_ Cochineal

Photos for ReVision tours_ Tossin

Photos for ReVision tours_ Ceiba and Quetzal

Photos for ReVision tours_ Potosi

Photos for ReVision tours_ Templo Mayor model (1)

Photos for ReVision tours_ Contemporary artists

For family-friendly or youth tours, a resource list. This link takes you to a Google Doc, and you can download a PDF of it. Please feel free to add any ideas or experiences to the document:

Family-friendly artworks in ReVisión

Various support articles from staff and guides:

Additional resources from Rafael on Latin American history

StarTribune article: Governments are gathering to talk about the Amazon rainforest

For an overview of ancient and colonial Americas, check out the SmartHistory unit: The Americas to 1900 . This includes various articles on ancient Mesoamerican cultures, ancient Andean cultures, South American (1500-1800), and Latin American art (1800-1900).

Article about Clarissa Tossin. Encontro das Águas [Meeting of Waters/Encuentro de las aguas], 2016. From JOAN Gallery (link here)

Cochineal dye, Video: Cochineal Bugs Create Red Dye: A Moment in Science

Smarthistory: Cochineal

(Short video) Nature by Design: Cochineal | Gloria Cortina

Smarthistory: Featherwork (from Mesoamerica)

From the Library of Congress: For Love, War, and Tribute: Featherwork in the Early Americas

From Hyperallergic: Plumage of the Saints: Aztec Feather Art in the Age of Colonialism

A video on Carlos Cruz-Diez, What is a Physichromie? | Carlos Cruz-Diez

From ArtNews: How I Made This: Sandy Rodriguez’s Pigments from Indigenous History

Inscription of Rafael Ochoa: Painters of African Descent in Colonial Spanish America

From the Met Museum: Gold in the Ancient Americas

Information on the painting of the Cerro Rico, Potosi.

BOLIVAR’S PLATTER: LA BANDEJA DE BOLÍVAR (video)

Artist profile: Sandy Rodriguez, LA Times, How artist Sandy Rodriguez tells today’s fraught immigration story with pre-Columbian painting tools

Video showing Chiachio and Gianonne embroidering and discussing their work.

An article from the Getty on Sandy Rodriguez: Unearthing the Secrets of Color

Video about Clarissa Tossin and her artwork, 7 minute mark, Meeting of the Waters: Encontro das Águas (Meeting of Waters) | Clarissa Tossin || Radcliffe Institute

Sandy Rodriguez, podcast: “From Invasive Others Toward Embracing Each Other” (discusses her codex, 9 minute mark)

CAA review of ReVision in Denver

From The Cornell Lab: What Is The Essence Of Iridescence? Ask A Hummingbird

Online article on corn paste sculptures: God figures made of corn stalk paste

Also an article on corn pith sculptures from Smarthistory

Brief Video: Sebastião Salgado on ‘Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil’

Longer interview: pedro reyes + carla fernández on practice and personal life for friedman benda’s “design in dialogue”

Serpent in St. John’s cup (featherwork): St. John with Serpent in Chalice

A modern use of the quipu profiled on PBS: Brief But Spectacular PBS July 19, 2023

Virgin of the Mountain, Potosi: Virgin of the Mountain of Potosi, 1720

Recipe for cochineal dye/instructions: Pretty in Pink

Catalog from Gloria Cortina, with more pictures of the inside of the Bullet cabinet:

Gloria Cortina Catalog

Caravaggio exhibition

To sign up or review Caravaggio Ask Me shifts, here is a link to the sign-up:

Here are the videos of Rachel McGarry’s in-gallery training on 4.18.23:

Caravaggio Part 1

Caravaggio Part 2

Here are the panels:

CUR231906_Caravaggio_Intro_Texts_V3

Here are the labels:

EUR231905_Caravaggio_Wall_Labels_V4

Additional collection connections:

Essential Characteristics of Baroque Art

Council of Trent and Catholic Reformation

Research resources:

Barberini: CARAVAGGIO (MICHELANGELO MERISI) (MILAN 1571 – PORTO ERCOLE 1610): Judith Beheading Holofernes

Biography of Caravaggio on The Art Story

Biography from the National Gallery, UK

From Khan Academy, a great article that discusses his influence: Caravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century Europe

The story of Beatrice Cenci (mentioned by Rachel)

Sebastian Schütze, Caravaggio: The Complete Works (Taschen)

Catherine Puglisi, Caravaggio (Phaidon)

Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

Guilio Mancini, Lives of Caravaggio (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Rosella Vodret, ed., Caravaggio The Complete Works (Silvana Editoriale)

Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred & Profane (W. W. Norton & Company)

Related books of interest:

Letizia Treves, Artemisia (National Gallery of London)

Mary D. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi (Princeton University Press)

Ludovica Rambelli’s Malatheatre Theater Company Caravaggio staging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeyulbiB0A&t=11s

Brown Bag: Theme development for school tours

Here is a link to the recording:

Theme development Brown Bag 03.17.23

Here are the slides:

Brown Bag for School Tours 3.17.23

Religious Literacy Workshop: Cultural Fluency Spring 2023

Part 1 of our Spring 2023 cultural fluency training was the lecture by Dr. Jeanne Kilde, Director of Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota, on March 30, 2023. Here is a link to the recording:

Religious Literacy Workshop: Developing Your Practical Toolkit for Talking about Religious Art with the Public

Dr. Kilde provided some handouts for this session:

Religious Diversity in Minnesota Timeline (1)

Religious Diversity Overview of US Religious Landscape Final (1)

Here is a PDF of Dr. Kilde’s slides:

PPT FINAL-MIA Religious Literacy for Guides (1)

If you attended in person, you filled out a feedback form after the lecture. so you do not need to complete any extra feedback. We were able to record your attendance at the event.

If you were unable to attend, please watch the recording, then take a minute to fill out this brief feedback form to receive attendance credit for the session:

Feedback form for Part 1 of training: Religious Literacy Workshop