EXCITING NEWS: Docent Field Trip: Saturday, May 6

Exciting News!

I have been busy planning a day trip for all Tacoma Art Museum Docents that will happen on Saturday, May 6, 2006.

 

The field trip will involve:

• 7:30 am: bus drive to Bellingham
• 10 am: one-hour tour of the Western Washington University Outdoor Sculpture Collection by Sarah Clark-Langager, the curator of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection and director of the Western Gallery at Western Washington University in Bellingham.
  http://outdoorsculpture.wwu.edu/
  http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=3038
• 12 noon: lunch
• 1:30 pm: bus drive to La Conner
• 3:30 pm: one-hour tour at the Museum of Northwest Art by a docent
  The exhibition will be “Wordless Stories” and it is a group show with five artists in different media, “ …inviting the viewer to explore their underlying personal narratives.” The artists are Mark Bennion (wall frescos and floor installation), Pat De Caro (oil on glassine), Drake Deknatal (paintings), Randy Hayes (photography and painting – who you should know!) and Catherine Eaton Skinner (paintings and monotypes). The Benaroya Glass Gallery will host Jeff Crandall’s “Poetic Intentions”. And there is also a permanent gallery of Northwest artists.
  http://www.museumofnwart.org/news/detail.html?id=71
• 5 pm: bus drive back to Tacoma
• 7:30 pm: back at Tacoma Art Museum

 

Price?

The price for docents is $30 per person.

 

Can you bring your best friend?

You will be able to invite a spouse or friend on the field trip, but the price for non-docents will be slightly higher (but has not yet been finalized).

Also, this field trip will be offered to other Tacoma Art Museum volunteers in a week or two at the higher price.

 

Is lunch included?

Unfortunately, no. Lunch can become a real can of worms since everyone likes different foods, price ranges, and quantities. As a result, we have decided that lunch won’t be included in the price. Our plan is to eat as a group at the Western Washington University cafeteria which Carri assures me offers good food at a very reasonable price, in a nice setting. (By the way, Carri is a Western Washington University grad so maybe she will tell us some stories…)

We have scheduled an hour-and-a-half for lunch, but it is likely you will have even more time than that if you do some math with the schedule. So, there might be enough time for you to go elsewhere for lunch in small groups.

 

What should you wear?

The WWU Outdoor Sculpture Collection is outdoors, and the tour does involve walking. I’m waiting for more details on exactly how far, but wear your walking shoes and be ready for rain if we get so unlucky.

 

This trip is an opportunity for all of us to get to know each other better, and also see some important Northwest art at locations that you might not usually get to on your own. Please keep that in mind – we don’t mind if you want to bring someone along with you, but we also want everyone to participate in this group trip.

 

                                                                            

If you have any questions, let me know!

If you definitely want to come on the field trip, let me know!

If you want to bring a friend on the trip, let me know!

If you definitely don’t want to come, let me know!

 

(and if you are scheduled to docent on May 6 – Barbara Reisman and Debora Kernan – I’m sure we can work something out.)

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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Essence of Line readings

In May (Mon. May 22, 10:30am-12:30pm OR Wed. May 24, 6:00-8:00pm to be specific), Patricia McDonnell will give an introduction to the Essence of Line exhibition.

 

Before the Essence of Line intro on May 22 and 24, please read the following in the “Responding to Art” textbook:

• pages 456–471: “Eighteenth-Century Art: Baroque to Rococo to Neoclassical” and “Neoclassicism, Democracy, and Revolution”, including “Appreciation 30”  This is the period before the Essence of Line exhibition starts, and it is important background information. 
• chapter 16 (pages 477–513): “Art in the Nineteenth Century: Romanticism to Post-Impressionism” which covers Romanticism, Classical Art, Romantic Art and Architecture and Design, Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

 

 

We will be trying to use the “Responding to Art” textbook more often in the future, so I recommend that you purchase a copy if you don’t already own it. We will also be using it in the next docent training session which is scheduled to start in Fall, 2006. Tara Young (a former docent coordinator) did quite a bit of research to find an art history text that was easy to read and thorough.

 

You can buy the “Responding to Art” textbook from us for $60, from Amazon.com for about $78 new, and you can also find it second-hand for much cheaper on Amazon.com and other places.

 

Also, don’t forget that we have one copy of the “Responding to Art” textbook at the Docent Desk bookshelf, and you can borrow it for a few days by checking it out – at the very front of the Docent Log Binder, there are pages with instructions on how to check out books.

 

At the very least, please try to get your hands on a similar art history textbook so that you can read up on the topics I mentioned above. Any of the local university bookstores probably carry something similar.

 

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

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I hate flowers.

An interesting Georgia O’Keeffe quotation…

 

“I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.”

Georgia O’Keeffe quote

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

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F: 253.627.1898

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