Article on Max Beckmann, Weimar series
From your colleague Brenda Haines:
For Max Beckmann, Art’s Ironist, Crisis and Rediscovery – The New York Times
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:
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.
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:
The exhibition runs until May 27, 2024.
Water Is Life 2023
Here is the updated document for Water Is Life from Sheila McGuire–for all 2023 tours:
Water is Life Document for Guides 2023 updated
To find previous year’s training videos, search Water Is Life in the search box and you will find the previous training in the results.
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
Killers of the Flower Moon
From your colleague Lyn Osgood, an article on the Osage clothing (including wedding wear) in the movie Killers of the Flower Moon.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Scorsese’s Bride Like No Other
Resource page for November 2023 public tour, Arts of Native America
The November tour theme is:
Arts of Native America
Experience the role of tradition and innovation in superb works of Native American Art.
General condensed Native relations statement:
The museum resides on the homelands of the Dakhóta people and their Anishinaabe and Ho-Chunk neighbors. Through gallery installations and future exhibitions, Mia pledges to make visible the creativity and ingenuity of Native artists from the past, the present, and the future.
From your colleague, Marne Zafar, a tour of Native American art, including works in the new reinstallation in G259-261:
Who Are We. Who We Are. Americas Tour 2023-2024 FINAL
Check out the Lyrical Art of Jim Denomie resource page (link here) for information on that exhibition.
Check out the tour break and other school tour materials on this topic, at this link.
Check out the Reimagining Native/American Art resource page for information on that gallery reinstallation at this link.
Check out our self-guided tour flyer for November:
Native American Heritage Month self guided tour
Peer resources:
Reinstall of South and Southeast Asian Galleries and G243
Some works are rotating out of Galleries 211-212 and G243.
Attached are the works being deinstalled:
And attached are the works taking their place:
No changes are happening to G213 at this time.
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:
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:
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
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:
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.
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:
Tia Keobounpheng: Revealing Threads, MAEP
Here is the training with Tia Keobounpheng:
Urban Poverty tour
Here is a tour developed by Terry Edam for a sociology class at the U of MN:
Tour University of Minnesota March 2
Per Terry:
The topic is Urban Poverty with an eye on how museums historically have reflected in their art–and served–a more dominant culture and what museums like MIA have been doing to address this more recently. It’s part of a larger conversation about urban planning and marginalization.
From the Professor:
My students have been interested in ways in which institutions have become more inclusive of their representations of art as well as outreach efforts to a wider range of audiences.
Theme:
Seeing Yourself at Mia*: Cultural Inclusion and Community Outreach. *Mia translates to “Mine” in many languages.
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
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
New World Objects of Knowledge
A new research resource from your colleague Kay Miller:
New World Objects of Knowledge compressed
“A stunning, richly illustrated hardback cataloging key artifacts from across Latin American art, nature, and history.
From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artifacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world.
With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and museums hosting these objects. Each artifact is accompanied by a comprehensive essay covering its dynamic, often global, history and itinerary. This volume will be an indispensable catalog of New World objects and how they have helped shape our modern world.”
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.
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: