Videos

10.07.21 Guide session on new accessions

The presentation slides:

2021 Training 10.07.21 All Guides final

The recording:

10.07.21 CE session new accessions

The chat from the session (and thanks to you all for wonderful observations!):

CE session 10.07.21 new accessions chat

Here is Christi Belcourt’s Instagram account, and she offered observations on her work in our galleries as she was making it:

Christi Belcourt Instagram

And here is the document Tobie Miller compiled, identifying the flora and fauna within Belcourt’s painting:

It’s a Delicate Balance – flora and fauna

Complete the feedback form to receive attendance credit:

October 7 session feedback form

Homework for school guides:

Read through the information on K-2 students for our October 14 session:

Developmental Stages

Homework for adult guides:

Continue working on the Cross currents worksheet.

Worksheet for Cross Currents tour development

Adult Guides will next meet the evening of October 21.

 

 

09.30.21 School Guide session

Presentation slides:

Main presentation slides (includes North American Arts and Artists): 2021 Training 09.30.21 School Guides

Animals and Art_DH

Amazing Animals in Art

American Stories

Recording:

School Guide Session 09.30.21

CE session School Guides 09.30.21 chat

 

Attendance feedback form for 09.30.21

Homework for October 7 session:

Joe Minter Old Rugged Cross SM

Virgil Ortiz Jagg Gage KZ

Christi Belcourt Gallery 259 DH

Also, for peer learning opportunities on October 13/15, review the themes for two Art Adventure sets: Family, Friends, and Communities and Let’s Celebrate Life. An email with registration links for those in-person sessions on October 15 and 29 was sent to guides on October 1.

Week 2 sessions, 9.23.21

For all groups, a reminder that our Tour Toolkit has best practices for many of the tour elements we are discussing this week, divided into school and adult/multigenerational sections:

Tour Toolkit

 

School Guide session

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 09.23.21 School Guides

Here is the link to the recording:

Video of Week 2 School Guides session

Chat file: Week 2 School Guides chat 09.23.21

Homework for School Guides:

Review Art Adventure tours: Amazing Animals and American Stories (booklets posted under AAG Sets on main website menu)

Review themed tours: Animals in Art (to be posted on Monday) and North American Arts and Artists (materials posted under Topics for School Tours)

If needed, continue to work on Wayfinding assignments and connecting with 1 to 2 guides you do not know (Mia Buddies)

Here is a direct link to the feedback form for Week 2 school session. Please take a moment to fill out to receive attendance credit for this session:

Week 2 09.23 school session attendance feedback form 

 

Adult/Multigenerational Guides session:

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 09.23.21 Adult Guides

Here is the link to the recording:

Video of Adult Guide session 09.23  (NOTE: We forgot to hit record until folks were sharing their Cross Currents tour experiences, so check out the four slides before this share-out, to learn more on why Cross Currents tours were developed and how they are structured. Any specific questions, ask in the feedback form)

Chat file: Week 2 Adult Guides chat 09.23.21

Homework for Adult/Multigenerational Guides (A Word version of this was emailed on 9/24 to Adult Guides):

Worksheet for Cross Currents tour development

Direct link to the feedback form for Session 2 below. Please take a moment to fill out so you receive attendance credit for this session:

Week 2 09.23 adult multigenerational feedback form

Week 1: Combined session, 9.9.21 (repeated 9.11.21)

Recording of session (note, the recording started about five minutes into the session due to operator error, just when Katie Luber started to share her remarks):

Week 1 combined session recording 09.09.21

Presentation slides:

2021 Training 09.09.21

Feedback form for attendance credit: Week 1 feedback form

Homework

Adult guides:
Wayfinding worksheet using new gallery rotations and acquisitions, due December 16: Wayfinding Mia Guides 2021

School guides:
Review Art Adventure approach (read an intro of any AAG booklet, link here) and AAG routes (link here), due by September 23.
Wayfinding worksheet for AAG, due December 16: Art Adventure Wayfinding 2021

Optional, complete wayfinding sheet for adult guides, due December 16: Wayfinding Mia Guides 2021

For both adult and school guides:
Connect with 1-2 other guides you haven’t met (additional information and roster forthcoming)

 

 

 

 

Art Break with Curator Mai Yamaguchi on 8.6.21

Here is a link to the recording of our Art Break with Curator Mai Yamaguchi, focused on the Meiji Period.

Art Break Meiji Period Japan 08.06.21

Also, for a question asked during the art break, your colleague Kay Miller found an answer:

How long did internal national expositions in Japan last?

“The Second one, featured on the print that Mai showed, lasted for four months – March 1, 1881 – June 30, 1881.”

Here is a PDF of Mai’s presentation:

Meiji Looking Back, Looking Forward

 

Art Break with Curator Yang Liu

Here is the recording from Part 1 of Curator Yang Liu’s Art Break:

Art Break Part 1 on 7.14.21

And here is the audio transcript:

Transcript for Art Break with Yang Liu Part 1

Here is Part 2 on 7.21.21:

Art Break Part 2 7.22.21

And here is the Part 2 transcript:

Art Break transcript Part 2 Yang Liu 7.21.21

Here is Yang’s article:

LIU Yang To Please Those on High article – Copy

And here is the link to the website academia.edu he mentioned, where you could search for over 50 articles he has posted after you register to use the site: https://www.academia.edu/

Here are some other resources:

A video from Sotheby’s with Dr. Tao Wang: The Story Behind the Ancient Works in the “Magnificent Ritual Bronzes” Auction

From AIC: Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes

From Khan Academy: Shang dynasty ritual bronze vessels

From Khan Academy: Tigers, dragons, and, monsters on a Shang Dynasty Ewer

From HarvardX: How ancient Chinese bronzes were created

Mia video: Chinese Bronzes, Of Us and Art: The 100 Videos Project, Episode 19

 

 

 

 

Tackling Tough Topics: IPE required training, January 26, 2021

Here is a link to the video of our required cultural fluency training on January 26, 2021, with guest speakers Michelle Edwards and Geoffrey Cohrs:

Tackling Tough Topics

Here are the PowerPoint slides:

TO COME

If you watched the video of the training, here is a link to the feedback form to complete the requirement:

Tackling Tough Topics feedback form

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has developed a great online resource:

Talking about Race

 

 

 

 

IPE Volunteer Anniversary Celebration, 12.9.20

Here is the video link for our anniversary celebration:

IPE Volunteers Anniversary Celebration 12.9.20

And here are the evening’s slides:

IPE 12.9.20 anniversary celebration

Here are Pujan’s slides from the presentation:

TO COME

And here are some support documents. One provides full text of photos and memories (which some had to be edited for time) and also Bill Wilson, Docent Class of 2015, has provided the full text of his wonderful poem.

Class 2015 docents Bill Wilson anapestic-poem

Here are some documents from Rose Stanley-Gilbert for the 25 year docent anniversary:

2020.12.9 WORD Class of ’95 – Docent celebration speech

Class of 95-WORD Docent Rememberances