Thursday, March 02, 2006

NYT article with slide show about Whitney Biennial


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Docent Needed: Tuesday, April 25 from 1-5

Can anyone do a docent shift (or trade a shift) on Tuesday, April 25 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm?

 

Due to the expected popularity of Great American Thing, it is important that we try to have docents available for all shifts.

 

We don’t expect you to be in the galleries, on your feet, for the entire four hours! Please feel free to take a break whenever and wherever you need it – in the ARC, the Untitled Café, the Museum Store, or outside the museum. Just let Visitor Services know where you are, and they will find you if someone requests a docent.

And I will always contact you if there is a tour or other event for which you are needed at a specific time. Otherwise, it is completely up to you to decide when you are most needed and how long you can manage in the galleries.

 

Please reply only if you are available, and I will confirm whether or not you are needed.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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Docent Needed: Tuesday, April 11 from 1-5

Can anyone do a docent shift (or trade a shift) on Tuesday, April 11 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm?

 

Due to the expected popularity of Great American Thing, it is important that we try to have docents available for all shifts.

 

We don’t expect you to be in the galleries, on your feet, for the entire four hours! Please feel free to take a break whenever and wherever you need it – in the ARC, the Untitled Café, the Museum Store, or outside the museum. Just let Visitor Services know where you are, and they will find you if someone requests a docent.

And I will always contact you if there is a tour or other event for which you are needed at a specific time. Otherwise, it is completely up to you to decide when you are most needed and how long you can manage in the galleries.

 

Please reply only if you are available, and I will confirm whether or not you are needed.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3018

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Docents Needed: March

Here is a list of available shifts for the month of March.

So far, The Great American Thing has been literally drawing crowds, so it is important that we try to have docents available for all shifts.

 

We don’t expect you to be in the galleries, on your feet, for the entire four hours! Please feel free to take a break whenever and wherever you need it – in the ARC, the Untitled Café, the Museum Store, or outside the museum. Just let Visitor Services know where you are, and they will find you if someone requests a docent.

And I will always contact you if there is a tour or other event for which you are needed at a specific time. Otherwise, it is completely up to you to decide when you are most needed and how long you can manage in the galleries.

 

Please reply only if you are available, and I will confirm whether or not you are needed.

 

Available shifts in March:

·        Thursday, March 9 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

·        Friday, March 10 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm

·        Saturday, March 18 – any 4-hour shift you want : 10-2, 12- 4 whatever works for you (Penny will also be in the galleries as a docent)

·        Thursday, March 23 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

·        Thursday, March 23 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm

·        Friday, March 24 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm

 

Thanks for your time!

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3018

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GAT Symposium

We are having lots of people pre-register for The Great American Thing Symposium on Saturday, March 11.

As a result, we would like to know how many of you, our docents, are planning on attending the symposium, because we would hate to have to turn away our own docents if the symposium fills up.

 

You can pre-register with Jana, by phone at 253-272-4258, and there is a cost of $5 for members and $10 for non-members.

 

More info about The Great American Thing Symposium:

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.asp?view=4701

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Hilary Pfeifer's Warm at Fuller, Boston


Hello Fellow Docents,

Some of you might remember Hilary Pfeifer - from the Northwest
Biennial: Buildingwise. She lives in Portalnd OR.

She has a new installation in Boston ...

Here is a fascinating behind-the-scenes artist photo diary. Use either link.

http://tinyurl.com/r4n8z

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=16zfgv0m.2ylmx6mq&Uy=-opr8c&Ux=0

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Her email ...

I just got back from installing my new show at the Fuller Museum in
Brockton, MA. It's my
largest yet - around 2000 pieces total, all one-of-a-kind, of course.

A new page for my website will come eventually, but for now, I have
put together a photo
album online with images from its conception to final installation.

The official opening is Sunday, March 12th. (I won't be in
attendance.) Please check the
website for the Fuller Museum for more details: http://www.fullermuseum.org

The show will be at the Fuller through June 18 of this year. If
you're in the Boston area,
Brockton is about 30 miles south of the city.

Here is my statement for the show:

Every year the Lovebugs swarm. It's their mating process--traveling
in a giant mass of
writhing pheromones. In recent decades, as their native habitat in
the forests has been
depleted, the Lovebugs have migrated toward the roadways to act out
their seasonal
ritual. They are drawn to the scent of automobile exhaust fumes,
which chemically
replicates the odor produced by the female insect to attract their
male counterparts and
alert them of their fertility. Quite often, individuals in a swarm
are randomly looping,
spiraling, or corkscrewing around in a dizzying search for their
mates, rather than
following a linear flightplan.

People swarm too. In bars, parks, highways, gyms, malls. We often
gather together and
watch each other, observing our mating rites which include clothing,
gesture, demeanor.
We flirt, looking into each other's eyes for the kinesthetic cues
that it's okay to do so.
And for the cues that we should keep on going. Or the cues that it's
time to stop. We use electronic aids as well-cell phones, the
internet, text messages--all of which often bring
our swarming and mating routines further into the public domain.

Language is a big part of courtship, and it is from this place that I
chose the title for this
installation. When George Gershwin wrote `s Wonderful, he was taking
note of the way
that humans often elide the spoken word, letting some parts drop away
and others
merge. When we are speaking affectionately to lovers, our language
is softer and more
melodic than usual. Words loop from thought to thought, much like
the lofty flight
pattern of a giddy bug.

--
Regards,
Sanjeev Narang

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email: ask {*at*} eConsultant dot com
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Monday, February 27, 2006

Trimpin at Museum of Glass

The Museum of Glass has a Trimpin exhibition on right now. I would recommend that you go see it if possible because the Tacoma Art Museum will also have a Trimpin show next fall 2006.

 

Museum of Glass

Trimpin: Fire Organ

December 14, 2005 to April 16, 2006

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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