tour outline


Your Story Our Story tour

Here is a description of the Your Story, Our Story tour given to Roosevelt High School students:

YSOS Mia branded STUDENT

Your Story, Our Story is a program developed by the Tenement Museum in New York. This is information from heila McGuire, Head of Student and Teacher Learning:

“Your upcoming “Your Story, Our Story” tour for Roosevelt high school freshman will help them prepare  for writing their own immigration/migration/identity object-based stories in class at school.

As a partner school, we provide curriculum and the bus transportation for the tours to  to explore how objects can help tell stories. The focus of our tours is how objects can tell stories about immigration, migration, and identity. In the past  we have used artworks including Sully’s George Washington, Bears Hearts’ ledger drawings, the Somali basket, Judaica (Estel Berman’s Seder plate is awesome), Cy Thao’s paintings, The Howard desk, and the Ivar Kvalen Norwegian chest, to name a few. There are several new works out right now that will be great to include such as the Frank Bowling’s “False Start” painting and Roger Shimamura’s “American Guardian” lithograph. Docents came up with great ideas for these tours last year and will have to again since so many of you will be touring at the same time.

Here is a link to the Tenement Museum website: https://yourstory.tenement.org/ . Here is a link to Mia’s partner page: https://yourstory.tenement.org/partners/mia .”

These are materials shared by the docents who gave the tours:

TO COME


Day in the Life of a Muse tour outline

From the Let’s Talk Tours study group, a tour theme on muses, “Day in the Life of a Muse.” Here’s the introduction to the theme:

This tour led to some very interesting discussions about what is a muse, different types of
muses, sexual or nonsexual, men and women, perhaps places. There was discussion about artists who were muses for one another and their tempestuous relationships, some beautifully inspirational and some very sad.

Tour Theme on Muses


Academic Arts to Impressionism

Let’s Talk Tours, April 16, 2019
Jim Allen, “The Bumpy Road from Academic Art to Impressionism”
Focus was the 1800’s and what was happening historically, socially, artistically. The topic proved to be too big to include the World so Jim narrowed it down to primarily France. See the detailed tour outline below and supporting documents, including some photo props:

Academic Art to Impressionism

Cecelia Beaux, Mrs. Beauveau Borie and Her Son, Adolphe

EugeÌne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_045.jpg

Eugene_Manet_and_His_Daughter_in_the_Garden_1883_Berthe_Morisot.jpg

Monet Venice

t

Salon Carre

Courbet portrait

Delacroix’s experiments with color

Delacroix’s notes on color