In this Brown Bag, we discussed engagement strategies for middle and high school students, as well as covered the new school program ‘Discovery Days” and re-energizing 11:15 tour groups. Here is the recording of the Brown Bag:
Here are the slides:
Here is our resource page for Art in Bloom 2024!
First, we have a great planning document (including all artworks and PFA names and statements) created by Karen Kletter to help organize your tour routes and information to share at selected stops:
Another useful source of information for AIB background is the recent Friends’ talk with AIB floral artists:
Talk – Floral Artist Panel Friends Lecture
AIB 2024 PFA selections and statements:
2024 PFAs and Artworks by Gallery (1)
Monica Buller Cabral_Manifestation of Mont Akiba Gongen (1)
2024 Artists’ Inspiration Statements (1)
Link to AIB page on Mia website, with all events listed
Ikebana basics information:
Flora and fauna in Christi Belcourt’s painting:
It’s a Delicate Balance – flora and fauna
Informational resource on popular plants/flowers used by PFAs:
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
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
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
An article on Rose Simpson’s new monumental clay figures:
Spring cultural fluency training with the Autism Society of Minnesota:
Presentation slides:
Handout:
For all guides, please complete the appropriate feedback form for attendance credit:
or
Online cultural fluency training and feedback (for those who missed our in-person session)
Welcome to the resource page for the exhibition Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989.
Please let us know of any useful resources we can post here.
Leslie Ureña’s exhibition lecture on March 7:
Shape of Time Curator Lecture 3.7.24
Mia Press Release: Minneapolis Institute of Art Explores complex array of Contemporary Korean Art in New Exhibition
Korean History with Dr. Frank Chance on March 19:
Video of Korean History lecture
Presentation slides:
Korean History Overview Slide List
Video, Cultural Fluency Training with Mia Front of House Staff:
Pronunciation Guide with Jung Sook Wendeborn
Shape of Time pronunciation session with Jung Wendeborn
Teachers Guide by Bridget Gallagher-Larkin:
Shape of Time Teachers Guide_FINAL
Final panels and labels:
Large Print:
GCA242231_SoT_LargePrintLabels V1
Final checklist:
SoT at Mia_Checklist_03072024 final
Exhibition layout:
(to come)
Content resources
From your colleague Cara Richardson, Memory of the Dead and Responsibility of the Living : Noh Suntag’s Forgetting Machines (2006-2007)
An article about the exhibition: Craft and Stone, Korea’s Artistic Odyssey from 1989 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
From your colleague Margie Crone, more information about Kyeok Kim, on Instagram video
From your colleague Margie Crone, an Instagram post on artist Minouk Lim: Minouk Lim info on canes
From Hyperallergic, a review and information on artist Minouk Lim: Stories That Need to Be Told.
Minouk Lim article: South Korean Artist Minouk Lim Talks About Her Creative Practice And Being Part Of Para Site’s ‘Curtain’
Kyungah Ham, An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch
Do Ho Suh, from Art 21: “Some/One” and the Korean Military
Ju Se-kyun: Instagram post from the PMA
Ju Se-kyun: New Grammar of Representation to Shed Determined Representations
From your colleague Margie Crone, a video of Korean performance using mats, in connection to Suki Seokyeong Kang’s works: Traditional Korean Performance Story Ep.13 춘앵무 (Chunaengmu)
Suki Seokyeong Kang: A conversation in Ocula
From Frieze: Suki Seokyeong Kang’s All-Enveloping Landscape
From your colleague Jung, the dance performed for Suki Seokyeong KANG’s artwork.
Also from Jung, a Korean article with photos of the mat.
From K-Art Now: Artist Son Donghyun, From Traditional Portraits of Contemporary Figures to Studying Korean Paper in the Spirit of Traditional Korean Landscape Painters
Article on Donghyun Son: Portraits of a pop artist called Jacko
Interview : Yoo Eui Jeong, céramiste (you need to translate the website to English)
Interview (includes the piece Headless): MICHAEL JOO
DAM Blog post, includes info on Michael Joo work: Art that Speaks to Race, Gender, Climate & Other Current Issues
Article: SANG HEE YUN–BEWARE LACQUER
Sang-hee Yun: ‘Ottchil’ artist reshaping Korean craft with modern twists
Byron Kim, Synecdoche, 1991-present: National Gallery of Art label
Byron Kim: Art History Perspectives on Synecdoche
Heinkuhn OH: Left Face
Heinkuhn Oh bio and other information from Korean Artist Project
From your colleague Jung Wendeborn, a video of students performing the national gymnastics.
Context resources
From your colleague Margie Crone, an article on the popularization of Korean culture:
The “Korean Wave” and the Expansion of South Korean Culture
Portraits of Korean Kings: Rare portraits provide a peek at kings
From your colleague Martha Bordwell, her memoir, Missing Mothers, is in part about Korean adoption. She has also published some articles in the Korean Quarterly. Her book is available through online retailers, or you can reach out to Martha for it, too.
From your colleague Deb Baumer, info on a Korean exhibition running now at the Hammer Museum
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
Here are the labels and panels from the exhibition Year of the Dragon in the Cargill Gallery:
Here is a recording of Curator Valéria Piccoli’s training in Gallery 255, of Latin American Art at Mia:
From your colleague Marne Zafar, a tour outline shared for her tour of Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper:
This Brown Bag gave an update on spring school tours and offered tips for behavior management in the galleries.
Here is the recording:
And here are the slides:
Exhibition labels and panels:
GCA242167_GordonParks_Panels V2
GCA242167_GordonParks_SubPanels FINAL
GCA242167_GordonParks_Labels FINAL
Curator Casey Riley’s talk:
Here are some resources for the February in-gallery public tour, Celebrating African American Art, as part of Black History month celebrations.
First, here is a link to all African American art currently on view at Mia (updated for March 2024).
Here is a link to the Cross Currents public tour sign-up, where gallery assignments are noted.
Here is the training by Jean Ann Durades on January 18:
Part 3: G353 (not on Cross Currents, but good artworks to include on BHM private tours)
2024 self-guided tour flyer:
2024 Self-Guide Template Celebration of African American Art QR final
Here is a link to Bisa Butler’s talk.
From your colleague Marne Zafar, a detailed tour outline:
Black Heritage-History Tour Notes FEB 2024
Galleries 303 (also can access 301, 302, and 304)
Nellie Mae Abrams, “Housetop” quilt
Gee’s Bend quilt information, Mia blog
Lamar Peterson: A Self-Portrait
Leslie Barlow (move ahead to 10 minutes in the video): studio visit
Leslie Barlow’s MAEP exhibition and her talk, recorded
Renee Stout, Biography (also includes a pic of Soul Regenerator)
Object file on Henry Bannarn’s Cleota Collins
Gallery 322
Bisa Butler, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Notes from Josie Owens from a convo with Bisa Butler:
“Bisa tried to imagine their past and future personalities. The symbols refer to how she sees them. The fan is a symbol of success. In Ghana in the markets the more lucrative businesses have electricity and can offer fans to their customers. This woman will be a successful businesswoman. The hearts are on the skirt of the woman who looks like the kind friend. The bling is for the woman who is the fashionista. The high heels refer to Michelle Obama’s inauguration heels. She’s a leader and powerful. She said that she had to redo the face of the fan woman. She didn’t like how she looked.”
Video of Jean Ann’s tour, including Joshua Johnson’s painting. (and Bannarn’s Cleota Collins)
Video: Patsy Rembert introduces ‘Winfred Rembert. All of Me’ in New York
From the Mia blog: “I wanted people to know”: The moving history behind Winfred Rembert’s “The Beginning”
From Kate Christianson, a great documentary about Rembert now streaming online at Amazon Prime:
All Me: The Life And Times Of Winfred Rembert
Galleries 364/365: American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson
From the Mia blog: The Minnesota legacy of Gordon Parks, a life of seeing and being seen
Also, from The Object podcast: to come
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
PBS video from Jean London:
Why Gordon Parks’ Most Famous Photo Almost Wasn’t Released
From Rose Stanley-Gilbert:
https://www.npr.org/sections/
Background on the FSA:
Galleries 375 (also can access G376)
A catalog of James Phillips’ works that includes Cosmic Connection
Joe Overstreet’s work discussed (28:24 on video) in Curatorial training in 2019
William Edmondson, Ram (see Jean Ann’s tour video posted under G322–and check out the Art Adventure set, Artist’s Inspirations, of which the Ram is part.)
Curator Bob Cozzolino’s training on Bob Thompson and Beauford Delaney: Kunin Collection Focus on Bob Thompson, January 10, 2019
Some information from your colleague Terry Edam:
Here are a list of ideas for the January public tour,
Oh, the Weather Outside!
Explore images of indoor/outdoor pastimes while contemplating Minnesotans’ obsession with the weather.
(Note: We have a new installation in the Japanese galleries by curator Mai Yamaguchi, with many weather-related works. Check out “Falling Water: Expressions of Weather in Japanese Art” in G223.)
We also encourage you to share other ideas with each other for this tour, so to that end, we are sharing the Google doc link for the tour, so feel free to add to this any other ideas you have of great artworks to include!
As always, one-hour public tours meet at the Info Bar in the lobby, and please remember to record the attendance of your tours on the attendance sheet on the Guide Lounge bulletin board. Thank you!
Here are the videos for Part 1, from 12.13.23:
Here is the video for Part 2, from 12.20.23:
Here are the complete slides:
12.13 and 12.20.23_New on View
From your colleague Manju Parikh, an article that includes research on George Morrison:
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:
From your colleague Brenda Haines:
For Max Beckmann, Art’s Ironist, Crisis and Rediscovery – The New York Times
Here is the video:
Photo processes and techniques in In Our Hands 11.7.23
Here are the slides: