Friday, August 18, 2006

Docent Needed for Tour: Friday, August 25 at 10 am

Can anyone do a general museum tour on Friday, August 25 at 10 am for a group of 35 senior Air Force pilots (retired, I assume)?

 

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

 

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URGENT: Docents Needed for Tour: Wednesday, August 23 at 12:30 pm

Can anyone do a general museum tour on Wednesday, August 23 at 12:30 pm for group of 70 seniors associated with the Antique Music Box Society?

Stephanie Strampe will be doing this tour, but the group would like 4 docents if possible.

 

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

 

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Correction: Fall Docent Training Schedule

Correction: The Trimpin introductory lecture (given by Trimpin, the artist) will happen on September 25 from 6-8 pm (not 10:30-12:30).

And this is the only training session on the Trimpin: Conloninpurple exhibition.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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From: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: Fall Docent Training Schedule

 

Something funny is going on with Carri’s email, but here is the fall schedule that she has been trying to email you…

 

Please let me know if you have any questions. You will see that some of the exhibitions have very limited training so it is essential that you try to attend what is offered.

I hope you enjoying your summer and I look forward to seeing you very soon!

(from Heide)

 


 

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

-OR-

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

-OR-

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

-OR-

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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docent comings and goings (mostly goings, unfortunately)

There have been a few changes to docents over this summer that I wanted to let all of you know about.

 

Barbara Reisman left the docent program in July to move to Bellingham (I think I already told you this).

 

Cheryl Kincaid is also gone due to a move to Kansas to be closer to family.

 

 

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

F: 253.627.1898

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Today=Third Thursday=Coffee+Artwalk


Hello Fellow Docents and Interesting People,

Last Third Thursday before Labor Day. Enuff said.

***

A gentle reminder that this month's Docent Coffee / Third Thursday
coffee will be at Cutters Point Coffee, 5:00pm + with the same "No
Agenda" and same "No RSVP Required" policy as always!

Day: Third Thursday
Date : 08/17/06
Place : ** Cutters Point Coffee **
Time: 5:00pm +

The museums will be open free and late; the galleries will be open; we
can take the train to the theater district. No agenda is good freedom.

No RSVP; Just show up!

(As always: Too much email ?? Let me know if you want off this list.)

--
Regards,
Sanjeev

***

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

URGENT: 3 or 4 Docents Needed for Tour: Wednesday, August 23 at 12:45 pm

Can anyone do a general museum tour on Wednesday, August 23 at 12:45 pm for 70 seniors?

 

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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Modern Art History lectures by Ron Fields

FYI: You will hear more about this in September but part of the fall training for new and current docents will be to attend some of the Modern Art History lectures by Ron Fields. More info about the lectures can be found here:

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.asp?view=6019

 

Thanks for your time!

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Dale Chihuly and Bryan Rubino


Glass artists Dale Chihuly and Bryan Rubino announced today that all
of the claims between them in the lawsuit that Mr. Chihuly's companies
filed in federal court last fall had beenresolved by a mutual
settlement of Mr. Chihuly's claims and Mr. Rubino's counter-claims.

The terms of the settlement are not disclosed and the parties have
agreed to keep them confidential.

Mr. Chihuly and Mr. Rubino are glad to have this matter behind them
and wish each other well in their future projects and independent
creative development.

http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2006/08/all_together_now.php

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Sanjeev

***

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Gee's Bend (say: Jeeze Bend) quilt websites

Tacoma Art Museum will be doing an exhibition of Gee’s Bend quilts in the fall of 2007.

 

Here are two websites that you might want to look at:

 

http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/

 

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/other/geesbend/home.html

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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about small labels

Several of you have mentioned hearing complaints that the Essence of Line labels are too small.

Just so you know, there is a binder at the front desk that contains all the Essence of Line labels printed out in a large font for easier readability.

 

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

F: 253.627.1898

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