DOCENT YEAR KICK OFF – required
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
6-8 pm
Wine and cheese reception and introduction to the docent year
Location: Event Space
TRAINING SCHEDULE
Please plan to attend one introduction and workshop/gallery talk for all of the fall exhibitions.
Symphonic Poem: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
INTRO
Thursday, September 14, 2006
6-8 pm
Guest curator Barbara Johns will introduce Symphonic Poem: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
Location: Event Space
WORKSHOP AND GALLERY TALK
Friday, September 15, 2006
10-11am
Gallery talk and workshop with Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson and curator Carole Miller Gunshot
Location: Annette Weyerhaeuser Gallery
Conloninpurple
INTRO AND GALLERY TALK-only training for Conloninpurple
Monday, September 25, 2006
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Trimpin will introduce Conloninpurple
Location: Event Space and Bill and Bobby Street Gallery
Telling Stories: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
INTRO
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Rock Hushka will introduce Telling Stories: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Location: Event Space
-OR-
Tuesday, October 4, 2006
6-8 pm
Rock Hushka will introduce Telling Stories: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Location: Event Space
WORKSHOP AND GALLERY TALK
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
6-8 pm
Docents will present a 5-7 minute talk on a selected artist from the permanent collection
Location: Russell Gallery
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Monday, October 23, 2006
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Docents will present a 5-7 minute talk on a selected artist from the permanent collection
Location: Russell Gallery
The Art of Eric Carle
WORKSHOP AND GALLERY TALK
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
6-8 pm
Introduction and touring workshop provided by Carri Campbell and museum consultant Beverly Harding-Buehler
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Wednesday, October 16, 2006
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Introduction and touring workshop provided by Carri Campbell and museum consultant Beverly Harding-Buehler
Touring workshop and other required programs
Monday, November 13, 2006
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Touring workshop and review of winter exhibitions
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
6-8 pm
Touring workshop and review of winter exhibitions
Modern Art History Course
In addition, to your regular training schedule I would like you to select four art history lectures to attend on Tuesdays from 6-8 pm. You may choose any 4 of the 18 sessions provided. You may attend more than 4 if you want to.
Modern Art History Schedule
Tuesdays, 6-8 pm
Fall: October 3rd-November 7th, 2006
Winter: January 9-February 6th, 2007
Spring: March 6th-April 3rd, 2007
FALL SESSION
The modern art history course will survey western art history from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century with Ronald Fields, Professor Emeritus Art History, University of Puget Sound. The fall session is part one of a three part, eighteen week course. Winter and spring class descriptions coming soon!
The Head and the Heart: Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Tuesday, October 2nd, 6pm
Befitting the "Age of Enlightenment" artists such as Jacques Louis David and Jean August Ingres sought to reform the visual arts by creating a "correct" style of universal validity in the mid to late eighteenth century. In contrast, artists such as Delacroix and Turner emphasized emotion and imagination over rationality and the subconscious over the conscious.
Tell it Like it is...Maybe: Realism in the 19th Century
Tuesday, October 10th, 6pm
Realism did not represent a slavish imitation of nature but rather, a democratic – even socialist art movement lead by artists such as Courbet, Millet, Eakin’s and Homer who sought to sincerely deal with subjects previously dismissed as artistically insignificant by the academy.
A Delight in Light: Impressionism
Tuesday, October 17th, 6pm
Originally misunderstood and highly criticized by the art establishment, Impressionist artists Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissaro and other French artists of the late 19th century brought a new sense of immediacy to painting by capturing the fleeting moment.
A Return to Conceptual Painting: Post Impressionism
Tuesday, October 24th, 6pm
Born of Impressionism’s formal breakthroughs in art, especially in the area of color, artists Cezanne and Seurat originated their own variants on color, light and atmosphere.
Symbolism as Expression: Paul Gauguin
Tuesday, October 31st, 6pm
Searching for the purity of feeling and spirituality, artist Paul Gauguin was a willful and independent seeker of intuitive sensations and imaginative fantasies creating invented figures and forms, and abstracted use of color and line and composition to convey mysterious mood.
Art as Autobiography: Vincent Van Gogh
Tuesday, November 7th, 6pm
The emotionally and personally expressive paintings of Vincent Van Gogh burst the traditional bounds of naturalism, impressionism, and rationality to such extent that it was noted by some at the time, that “the Dutchman painted like a mad man.”
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Friday, September 22, 2006
12-1 pm
Volunteer potluck in the museum classroom
10am-5 pm
Art Resource Center Book sale
Thursday, November 30, 2006
5-8 pm
Docent Holiday Party
Location: TBD
NO TRAINING IN DECEMBER!
Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator
hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org
TACOMA ART MUSEUM
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