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):
Cross-currents
Resource page for June 2024 in-gallery conversation
Here are some resources for the in-gallery (Cross Currents) June conversation, in support of Pride Month, as we profile queer artists.
“*To clarify, when we say the word “queer,” we are referring to a self-identification of a person that is not heterosexual or cisgender (having a gender identity that matches the sex assigned at birth). It is important to note that for many, the term “queer” can be problematic, as it is a reflection of a negative history, but for others, “queer” is how they self-identify, which is why we use the word.” (definition from Crystal Bridges Museum)
Here is a link to the sign up for tours.
General resources:
Check out this one hour Facebook virtual tour by the Detroit Institute of Arts, discussing the work of Hosmer, Hartley, Delaney, and Bacon, all artists profiled on this month’s Pride tour.
Also from the LGBTCenter NYC, a video in conjunction with the Whitney: Queer Belonging: Identity and Community in America Art
Information and quotes from May 30 in-gallery training: Pride artists’ quotes
G323
Harriet Hosmer
Harriet Hosmer: The Art Story
From the Davisart.com, Curator’s Corner: LGBTQI+ History Month: Harriet Hosmer
Another version of Medusa in Hood Museum: Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, American, 1830 – 1908
Harriet Hosmer on Art and Ambition: The World’s First Successful Woman Sculptor on What It Takes to Be a Great Artist
Grant Wood
Regarding Grant Wood: SULTRY NIGHT: GRANT WOOD’S QUEER MIDWEST
From the LGBTQ Archives and Library for Iowa: History-By-Letter #3 | Grant Wood
Des Moines Art Center: Justin Favela on Grant Wood’s “Birthplace of Herbert Hoover”
Informational video: Beyond American Gothic | Analysis of Grant Wood’s The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover
The Art Story: Grant Wood
Marsden Hartley
From the Met: Marsden Hartley and Wilfred Owen: Queer Voices of Memorial in Wartime
From the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg: Stories We Tell: Conversation with director Michael Maglaras (discussing his film on Hartley)
Marsden Hartley: The Art Story
From the Sheldon Museum, Marsden Hartley
A couple labels from the Smithsonian with info on Hartley’s time in Mexico in 1932 and the artworks he produced: Yliaster and Popocatepetl
G361
Paul Cadmus
An object file on our Aspects of Suburban Life
DC Moore Gallery: Paul Cadmus
From the Met: Paul Cadmus and the Censorship of Queer Art
From the Smithsonian: Artists, Friends, Lovers: Paul Cadmus and George Tooker
Cadmus, transcript of oral interview from the Smithsonian
From Artsy: When Paul Cadmus’s Homoerotic Military Painting Launched a National Scandal.
George Tooker
Lot essay from Christie’s for Coney Island
An article from America Magazine: Beyond Protest: The art of George Tooker
George Tooker: The Art Story
Check out these three short videos (and you’ll recognize Bob Cozzolino’s voice!): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney: The Art Story
From Scalawag Magazine: Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney
G374–and also feel free to use G373 if you wish to include Harmony Hammond, Elliot Hundley, or Stan Shellabarger & Dutes Miller (who are married)
Check out Dennis Jon’s training on Part 2 of this Collage/Assemblage exhibition
Recent article on Harmony Hammond: Harmony Hammond’s Ongoing Revolution
Hunter Reynolds
From the NYT: Hunter Reynolds, Artist Who Dressed Up AIDS, Dies at 62
From Visual Aids, a bio and artist statement: Hunter Reynolds
Hales Gallery, link to information about Reynolds’ photo weavings, including a photo of our work currently on display.
Another article on the weavings: Weavings: Adam Ash Barbu and Ethan Shoshan for Hunter Reynolds
Wangechi Mutu (Is an important artist ally for LGBTQ+ rights, but does NOT identify as queer)
Essence Magazine: Artist Wangechi Mutu Celebrates ‘Africa’s Out!’ Campaign, with a Little Help from Solange
From National Museum of Women in the Arts: Positive Fragmentation: Wangechi Mutu on the Black Body
From the Met: Museums Without Men: Wangechi Mutu
From Google Arts and Culture: Discover the work of Wangechi Mutu
Art 21: Between the Earth and the Sky, Wangechi Mutu
Sadie Benning (pronouns they/them)
From W Magazine: Transgender Artist Sadie Benning Is Not Afraid
In the label, a reference to Forrest Bess–here is some information from the National Gallery of Art.
Art Forum: Sadie Benning
From Moma: Sadie Benning
Shinique Smith
Sarasota Magazine: With Parade, Shinique Smith Turns Her Gaze on the Ringling’s Old Masters
From a Mia Story: Shinique Smith and the fabric of life
Bio: Shinique Smith
Her website: Shinique Smith
New York Times: Giving Castoffs a Second Life
G376/377
Beauford Delaney
(See resources in G361 above)
George Tooker
(See resources in G361 above)
Francis Bacon (in 377 now)
From Art Forum: Francis Bacon
From ArtNews: Francis Bacon’s ‘Screaming Pope’ Embodied Postwar Anguish—Here Are 3 Surprising Facts About the Influential Painting
Francis Bacon: The Art Story
From the Tate: WHO IS FRANCIS BACON?
March 2024 public tour resource page
Our public tour for March 2024 is Women in Art, and it is an in-gallery tour (Cross Currents).
Self-guided tour flyer (contains Myrlande Constant, Elisabeth Osborne, Yayoi Kusama):
Women’s History Self Guided Tour_2024
General resources about women artists and contemporary art:
From Khan Academy: Where are the women artists?
Introduction to Contemporary Art
Gallery 255:
Check out Valeria Piccoli’s training on G255
From the Indigo Arts Gallery, a bio and more information on vodou flags: Myrlande Constant artist
Graciela Iturbide: Artist Profile
From the Guardian: Mexico’s poetic gaze: Graciela Iturbide at 80 – in pictures
Elsa Gramcko: Hyperallergic review of an exhibition, The Gap Between Things and Their Names
ELSA GRAMCKO: THE INVISIBLE PLOT OF THINGS (in this article, check out the photo of Gramcko with her painting, No. 6!)
More information on No. 6, by Gramcko
Sonia Gomes, interview in Frieze: Sonia Gomes Responds to Her Materials
From the Pace Gallery, a video: Of Seams and Stories: The Art of Sonia Gomes
From the Guggenheim, a description of a similar work from the Torções (Twistings) series by Sonia Gomes.
From the National Museum of Women in the Arts: Fabric of History: Sonia Gomes
Gallery 236/250:
From your colleague Ramaa Bhasin, Odundo’s “A Dialogue with Objects”
Article about Odundo’s work: The Shifting Resonances of Magdalene Odundo’s Vessels on the Global Stage
Article about Wodaabe Embroidery
Amazigh (Berber) carpet (G250)
Ait Ouagharda, Berber carpet (G250)
Regions and Types of Moroccan carpets
Bamana mudcloth Metropolitan Museum
From Rose Stanley Gilbert, a video: How Rug Weavers In Morocco Are Working Together To Fight For A Fair Wage
Gallery 303:
Video: Nora Naranjo-Morse: Potter & Poet
Dyani White Hawk: Essay from the MacArthur Foundation
Dyani White Hawk: “Takes Care of Them” by Dyani White Hawk, 2019 – Press Process video from Highpoint
Hearts of Our People — Artist Profile: Dyani White Hawk
Sheila Hicks: Video from MoMA: Sheila Hicks: Pillar of Inquiry | ARTIST STORIES
Sheila Hicks: From the NYT, A Career Woven From Life
Aliza Nisenbaum: From Mia website, a video: A Place We Share, Aliza Nisenbaum
Aliza Nisenbaum: From ArtForum, a video discussing work at Mia: ALIZA NISENBAUM TALKS ABOUT HER WORK
Mimi Gross: The Radiant Fearlessness of Mimi Gross
Mimi Gross at Eric Firestone Gallery
Critical Eye: Mimi Gross in Her World
Gallery 375–and also feel free to walk into G374, with the new reinstallation:
From the Tate: An Introduction to Yayoi Kusama
A bio of artist Elizabeth Osborne, written by Curator Bob Cozzolino.
Wangechi Mutu (G374): Essay on the artist from Khan Academy
Shinique Smith (G374): Shinique Smith and the Politics of Fabric
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:
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.
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
September Cross Currents Public Tour Hispanic Heritage
Here is the recording of the training on 8.17.22:
September Cross Currents Hispanic Heritage
And here is a PDF of the slides. All the resources are live linked, so you should be able to click on the blue links to read more about many of the works:
Cross Currents for Hispanic Heritage month (September)
Here is the map of Spanish colonization:
Colonization of North and South America
Cross Currents Tours
The Cross Currents tour was developed to allow more flexibility to museum visitors on the weekend. This tour is a melding of an Ask Me and a Spotlight tour assignment, and visitors are able to choose their own Mia adventure, traveling to as many tour stops as they like. As an added bonus, the Cross Currents format provides guides with a touring option that offered more engagement with visitors.
Each month, we use a different theme for the tour. The themes are broad, allowing plenty of options for selecting a key artwork or gallery to present throughout the museum.
For the tour, six to eight guides select a gallery and pick one object or a small group of objects to present around a general theme. For example, “Come to Your Senses” is a tour that explores how our senses help to tell the story of art. Guides would be stationed in their gallery for two hours and receive two credits.
The day of the tour, visitors are given a museum map with the locations of the stationed guides. Visitors move through the gallery stops in any rotation. Guides present on their object/s for about 10 minutes and then encourage visitors to move on to another stop. Additional tour maps will be available at each stop. Guides wear an “Ask Me” button and are encouraged to invite visitors to participate in the tours.
Here is a sample of the handout available to visitors on the weekends. Note this is a template that we adapt to each tour, depending on the theme and choices of the guides:
The Fall 2020 CIFocus newsletter also included a great article by guide Bryan Peffer, outlining his experience of giving a Cross Currents tour: