Cross-currents

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

Website for Myrlande Constant

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:

Magdalene Odundo_notes_DH

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

Wodaabe Tunic

Article about Wodaabe Embroidery

Amazigh (Berber) carpet (G250)

Ait Ouagharda, Berber carpet (G250)

Regions and Types of Moroccan carpets

Bamana mudcloth

Bamana mudcloth Metropolitan Museum

Bamana mudcloth UW Milwaukee

From Rose Stanley Gilbert, a video: How Rug Weavers In Morocco Are Working Together To Fight For A Fair Wage 

 

Gallery 303:

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Nora Naranjo Morse_2

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:

Yayoi Kusama notes_DH

From the Tate: An Introduction to Yayoi Kusama

Elizabeth Osborne

A bio of artist Elizabeth Osborne, written by Curator Bob Cozzolino.

Louise Nevelson

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:

Tissot_Journey of the Magi

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

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

 

 

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:

Cross Currents_Oct

The Fall 2020 CIFocus newsletter also included a great article by guide Bryan Peffer, outlining his experience of giving a Cross Currents tour:

CIFocus newsletter FALL2020