Here are some resources for the in-gallery (Cross Currents) June conversation:
G323
To come
G361
G373 (and feel free to also use G374)
Check out Dennis Jon’s training on Part 2 of this Collage/Assemblage exhibition
G376
Here are some resources for preparing for the in-gallery (Cross Currents) May public tour:
G259
Check out info on Virgil Ortiz, Jagg and Gage, minute mark 14:30 in this new accessions video.
Jeffrey Gibson’s punching bags: Jeffrey Gibson on the origins of his beaded punching bags
Jeffrey Gibson at the Venice Biennale 2024
Rose Simpson’s monumental sculptures: Rose B. Simpson in “Everyday Icons” – Season 11 – “Art in the Twenty-First Century” | Art21
Rose Simpson at the Jack Shaiman Gallery
Avis Charley: New to Nevada: Avis Charley
The Growing Thunder Collective
Pathfinder: 40 Years of Marcus Amerman
From the New York Times: Kay WalkingStick: Reframing the American Landscape
G301 (Reimagining Native/American Art) Feel free to walk into 302 as well.
(NOTE: This exhibition closes on May 27. For the May 30 and 31st public tours, guides will station in the Prairie School galleries, G300)
Watch Jill and Bob’s training on this gallery installation.
Wing Young Huie, Kids Playing in Frogtown (see Art Adventure set, American Stories, for information)
Christi Belcourt, here is the PDF of some of the flora and fauna depicted:
It’s a Delicate Balance – flora and fauna
Eva Zeisel–Town and Country by Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel in Chicago Tribune: EVA DOES IT
Charles Biederman: The Sage of Red Wing
G364 (American Gothic)
From the Mia blog: The Minnesota legacy of Gordon Parks, a life of seeing and being seen
Here is a link to the training with Curator Casey Riley, from January 9:
Training on Gordon Parks exhibition
Here are the panels, labels, and subpanels in the exhibition:
GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2
GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL
GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL
G373 (and feel free to wander into G374)
Check out Dennis Jon’s training on Part 2 of this Collage/Assemblage exhibition.
If you go into G374, Joe Minter’s assemblage provokes lots of conversation. Learn more about Joe Minter by listening to Mia’s podcast, The Object: Yard Show: The World According to Joe
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
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
Here are public tour topics and object recommendations for 2018: