Friday, October 19, 2007

TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Tuesday, December 4 at 11 am

Can anyone lead a tour on Tuesday, December 4 at 11 am?

A group of docents from Seattle Art Museum are coming for a tour of Gee's Bend. You will be splitting the group with Ellen Shigeno.

 

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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Tacoma, Washington 98402

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

TAM: available shifts in November and December

The following docent shifts are available in November and December:

-          Sunday, October 28 from 12-4

-          Wednesday, October 31 from 11-3

-          Thursday, November 1 from 11-3

-          Sunday, November 11 from 12-4

-          Sunday, November 18 from 12-4

-          Sunday, November 25 from 12-4

-          Thursday, November 29 from 11-3

-          Sunday, December 9 from 12-4

-          Sunday, December 16 from 12-4

-          Sunday, December 30 from 12-4

 

Please let me know if you can fill in for one of these dates.

 

Also, please let me know if you will be unavailable for your docent shift during the week of December 25 (Christmas). Tacoma Art Museum is closed only on December 25 and January 1.  

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

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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TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Friday, October 26 at 10:30 am

Can anyone lead a tour on Friday, October 26 at 10:30 am?  

It is a general museum tour for a Seattle Elderhostel group of approximately 40 seniors, and you would be splitting the group with Anne Seago.

 

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

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Thursday, November 8 from 4-5 pm

Can anyone lead a tour on Thursday, November 8 from 4-5 pm?

This should be a general tour for 15 Japanese students from TCC.   

 

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

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TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Friday, November 2 from 1:30-2:30

I am looking for two or three docents to lead a tour of Cecilia Beaux on Friday, November 2 from 1:30-2:30 pm.

The tour is for a group of 50-60 Pierce College students.

There is no docent on this day, so if you could also do a shift from approximately 12-4 that would also be very helpful!

 

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

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TAM: Telling Stories art rotation news

Hello all,

This is a note to let you all know that the Charlotte Smith "Subway at Midnight" photo has rotated out of the Telling Stories exhibition and the Joseph Park painting is back in.

Full documentation on both works is below.

 

ROTATED OUT

Charlotte B. Smith

(Born Akron, Ohio, 1905; died Seattle, Washington, 1999)

Subway at Midnight, 1967

Gelatin silver print

15 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Susan Smith Dillon and Nancy Smith Hallett, 2002.13.13

 

ROTATED IN

Joseph Park

(Born Ottawa, Canada, 1964)

Chess, 2001

Oil on canvas

20 x 24 1/8 inches

Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of David Lewis in honor of Clinton Williams, Donald Williams, Eileen Lewis, and Jane Ramm, 2003.73.1

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

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

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Monday, October 15, 2007

This Thursday = 10/18 = Third Thursday = Docent Coffee + Artwalk

Hello Fellow Docents and Interesting People,

Come by, drink some coffee; see some art ...

TAM : Cecilia Beaux / Gee's Bend Quilts / Mary Randlett Photographs /
Telling Stories

The Museum of Glass : Mining Glass / Contrasts: A Glass Primer / Made
at the Museum

William Travers : Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott / Ethan Stern

***

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 : 10/18/07
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

***

Sanjeev Narang
email: ask {*at*} eConsultant dot com
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TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Sat. Oct. 20 from 5:00-6:30 pm

I am looking for two docents for Saturday, October 20 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm, to offer tours during the Artful Moments with Mary Randlett event for members, which includes a book signing.

 

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

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FW: Beaux frames

A few questions came up in today’s training about which frames are originals chosen by Beaux.  Attached is a list from Margaret Bullock.

 

See you soon,

 

Susan Burnham

Manager of School, Teacher, and Docent Programs

sburnham@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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From: Margaret Bullock
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:30 PM
To: Susan Burnham
Subject: FW: Beaux frames for the docents

 

I have made myself a cheat sheet of works in the Beaux exhibition that have original frames that she chose.  In gallery order starting on the left:

 

Edward Coxe

Derniers jours d'enfance (original but remodeled)

Harold and Mildred Colton (some question whether Beaux chose it or not)

Cecil Kent Drinker

A Little Girl (Fanny Cochran)

Mrs. Clement Newbold

Mrs. Thomas Scott

Ernesta (Child with Nurse)

Sita and Sarita

New England Woman

Reverend Matthew Blackburne Grier

Man with Cat

Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

Sarah Elizabeth Doyle

Mrs. Richard Low Divine
Portraits in Summer

Flora Whitney

Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter Ethel

 

 

Margaret