Videos

From the Asian Art Museum: The Development of Landscape Painting in China through the Tang Dynasty (618-906) (in particular, note this statement: “In Chinese color theory, black contains all colors; thus theorists believe that people can conceive all colors in the various tones of ink.”

Lesson on Chinese landscape painting from Princeton, with some good questions under the “Lesson” heading: Chinese Landscape Painting during the Song Dynasty

Gallery 355

Worcester Art Museum Video: Matthias Waschek: Pierre Bonnard’s ‘Dining Room In The Country’

French Quarter magazine: Exploring the Intellectual Haven: The Legacy of Parisian Café Culture (Vuillard’s Place Saint-Augustin)

BBC Arts: The Pursuit of Paradise: Eight paintings tracing Paul Gauguin’s quest for the exotic in Tahiti

Gauguin, Tahitian Landscape (in /Art Adventure, People and Their Environments)

National Gallery of Art: Gauguin: Maker of Myth

Musee Giverny: Signac, the colors of water

PDF fact sheet on Salmon Fishers at Nesøya, 1891, by Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen: Eilif Peterssen – Laksefiskere på Nesøya (Salmon Fishers at Nesøya) – factsheet

Van Gogh, Olive Trees, ArtStory

Gallery 379 (Going on a road trip, boat ride, or scooter–in streamlined design)

Streamline Moderne: Speeding into the future!

From Wikipedia, a history of the Road Trip

From the Library of Congress blog: America on the Road: The Family Vacation by Car

Go on a road trip with the Tatra! Tatra 603 ad video (a later Tatra version, but good sense of how fast it could go, even in the countryside)

From Wikipedia: Tatra 87

Tatra ArtStory on artsmia.org

Classic Car Review: The Death Eaters, Chapter 1: Tatra T87

Skippy Racer Scooter history, with photos: 1938 ‘Skippy Racer’ Streamlined Scooter

Bizen: Contemporary Expressions of an Ancient Japanese Pottery

From Yuko Ralston, a package of information on the new exhibition Bizen: Contemporary Expressions of an Ancient Japanese Pottery.

Guide Training_Bizen_Contemporary Expressions of Japan’s Ancient Pottery

Here is a link to the exhibition page.

Here is a video of Curator Andreas Marks’ in-gallery training:

Bizen training 06.27.24

From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert:

Bizen Ware from Wikipedia

Brown Bag for adult guides on 5.15.24

Here is the recording:

Brown Bag for adult guides 5.15.24

Here are the slides (and note, there is a link to the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine online resource in the slides):

5.15.24 Brown Bag Adult Guides

In-gallery guide training for Goltzius & Co. with Tom Rassieur 5.2.24

Here is the recording:

Recording of training 5.2.24

Tom Rassieur’s illustrated guide:

Hendrick Goltzius Timeline illustrated

Tom’s blog post on Mia’s website:

How love grows cold: The curious adage behind a visiting painting

Brown Bag for School Guides 04.16.24

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:

Brown bag 04.16.24

Here are the slides:

4.16.24 Brown Bag for School Tours

Cultural Fluency training with AuSM, 2.28.24

Spring cultural fluency training with the Autism Society of Minnesota:

Recording of AuSM 02.28.24

Presentation slides:

MIA 2.28.24

Handout:

WhatisAutism2023

For all guides, please complete the appropriate feedback form for attendance credit:

Feedback form for attendees

Online cultural fluency training and feedback (for those who missed our in-person session)

Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989

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

Korean History Overview Slide List

Video, Cultural Fluency Training with Mia Front of House Staff:

Understanding Korean Culture

Pronunciation Guide with Jung Sook Wendeborn

Video of pronunciation guide

Shape of Time pronunciation session with Jung Wendeborn

Teachers Guide by Bridget Gallagher-Larkin:

Shape of Time Teachers Guide_FINAL

List of heads for Michael Joo’s piece:

JOO, Michael_Heads from Headless_032924

Additional Information on Eulji Theatre:

JUNG, Yeondoo_Eulji Theatre_supplementary information

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

Article: Hyunsoo Woo Discusses the Impact and Influence Behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Korean Art Showcase

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

Yuni Kim Lang’s website

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 website

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

Latin American Art at Mia

Here is a recording of Curator Valéria Piccoli’s training in Gallery 255, of Latin American Art at Mia:

Latin American Art at Mia 01.23.24

Brown Bag for School Guides, January 10, 2024

This Brown Bag gave an update on spring school tours and offered tips for behavior management in the galleries.

Here is the recording:

Brown Bag January 10 2024

And here are the slides:

1.10.24 Brown Bag for School Tours

American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson

Exhibition labels and panels:

GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2

GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL

GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL

Curator Casey Riley’s talk:

Training on Gordon Parks exhibition Jan 2024

New on View, CE session 12.13.23 and 12.20.23

Here are the videos for Part 1, from 12.13.23:

Part 1 A

Part 1B

Here is the video for Part 2, from 12.20.23:

Part 2 12.20.23

Here are the complete slides:

12.13 and 12.20.23_New on View

December 2023 Cross Currents, Celebrating the Season

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:

Tissot_Journey of the Magi

Photographic Techniques and Processes, 11.7.23

Here is the video:

Photo processes and techniques in In Our Hands 11.7.23

Here are the slides:

Photo Techniques and Processes for Mia Guides_11.7.23

December 2023 public tour: Cross Currents

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.