Friday, July 28, 2006

URGENT: Docent Needed for Tour: Thursday, August 3 at 10 am

Can anyone do a tour on Thursday, August 3 at 10 am?

If you can also do the morning docent shift, that would be good too!

 

The tour is for a group of 21 seniors from San Francisco.  They have not specified if they want a general museum tour, or an exhibition tour.

 

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

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Virtual Louvre


See the Louvre galleries with 360 degree views

http://www.virtualsweden.se/projects/louvre/

Click on one of the galleries on the right and let it load up in the
new window ... hold the left mouse button to rotate the view around
the room in all directions.

--
Regards,
Sanjeev

***

Sanjeev Narang
email: ask {*at*} eConsultant dot com
<a href="http://www.eConsultant.com">www.eConsultant.com</a>

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tacoma Art Museum Docents" group.
To post to this group, send email to tamdocents@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tamdocents-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tamdocents
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

WWU Outdoor Sculpture Collection Among 'Big Ten'

 

WWU Outdoor Sculpture Collection Among ‘Big Ten’

 

Contact(s):  

Sarah Clark-Langager, (360) 650-3963 Sarah.ClarkLangager@wwu.edu

6/15/2006

 

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s acclaimed Outdoor Sculpture Collection has been named one of the 10 best on-campus public art collections in the country.

For its spring/summer issue, the Public Art Review magazine asked members of the public art community to select the “Big Ten” of campus collections. Seattle architect Mark Spitzer declared Western’s a “world class sculpture collection.”

“A pleasure to be around,” he wrote.

The other campuses named are Texas Tech University; Pratt Institute in New York; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of South Florida; University of California, San Diego; Arizona State University; Wichita State University, University of Minnesota and Johnson County Community College in Kansas.

“This listing affirms Western’s longstanding reputation as one of the premier sculpture collections at campuses throughout the country,” said WWU President Karen W. Morse. “Public art has always been a high priority here, with the understanding that art shapes not only our campus community, but the broader community as well.”

Also in the latest issue of the Minnesota-based Public Art Review, critic Robb Mitchell reviewed collection curator and Western Gallery Director Sarah Clark-Langager’s 2002 book, “Sculpture in Place: A Campus as Site.”

Clark-Langager’s book explains Western’s philosophy of integrating sculpture with campus architecture and scenery, Mitchell noted, “focusing on site as place, not in an historic or institutional sense, but through the eyes of artists creating works that transform, frame and commend the campus setting for the student-participant viewer of art.”

Western acquired its first piece in 1959. Since the late sixties, the university has carefully selected sculptors who are asked to choose a place on campus to create their art.

“We have an important history – a 47-year focus on forming a cohesive collection rather than a random group of public works,” Clark-Langager said. “When we talk about Western’s niche, this is the reason why we are famous: a highly selective collection of established artists who have created exciting works that pull the campus together and make this place something beyond academic architecture, brick squares and green grass.”

Western acquired many of the works through public-private partnerships. Six sculptures were funded by the WWU Art Allowance, five were funded by National Endowment for the Arts grants with matches from public and private sources, 10 were gifts, and four were funded by the state’s Percent for Art program.

For more about Western’s Outdoor Sculpture Collection, contact Sarah Clark-Langager at (360) 650-3963 or Sarah.ClarkLangager@wwu.edu.

“Sculpture in Place” is available at bookstores nationwide, including the Western Associated Students Bookstore (360) 650-3655.

http://west.wwu.edu/ucomm_news/articles/1231.asp

 

 

 

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

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 

 

Monday, July 24, 2006

Docent Needed: Saturday, August 19 from 10-2

Can anyone do a docent shift (or trade a shift) on Saturday, August 19 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm?

 

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

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 

Docent Needed: Thursday, July 27 from 10-2

Can anyone do a docent shift (or trade a shift) on Thursday, July 27 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm?

                                                              

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

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!

 

3 Docents Needed for tour: Sat. Sept. 30 for 120 Japanese students

Can anyone do tours on Saturday, September 30 from approximately 12:30 to 3:00 pm?

 

The tour is for a group of 120 female, Japanese students who are in the U.S. learning English. The group has requested 3 docents who are mindful of the fact that these are Japanese women who speak very little English. These students are just looking to receive the basic information about the art in the galleries.

 

The group of 120 will be split into two groups of 60, and they will alternate between Tacoma Art Museum and the Washington State History Museum. Each group of 60 will be further split into three smaller groups with one docent for each group of 20 students. The first group of 60 will arrive at Tacoma Art Museum at 12:45 pm, and the second group of 60 will arrive at 2 pm. This group has visited Tacoma Art Museum in the past, at least four or five times with different students each time, so they are familiar with the museum and how we do tours.

 

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

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

Become a Member Today!