Tacoma Art Museum Docents Blog TAM Docents Blog: TAM: docent training schedule for April

Here is the training schedule for the next few months.

Please let me know if you are unable to attend any of the “required” trainings.

Thanks for your time!

highly recommended		Third Thursday, March 20, 4:30 – 5:30		Exhibition Walk-Through: Michelle Dunn Marsh, Director of Aperture West, will discuss the broad range of photographic media Chuck Close incorporates in his work, including daguerreotypes and large-scale digital prints – in the format of a walk-through of Chuck Close especially for the docents. Location: Event Space
Required	April 9, 5:30 – 7:30 or April 14, 10:30 – 12:30		Chuck Close Workshop Location: Gallery Ellen Ito will lead this workshop by talking about the artists whose portraits are in A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. This will provide a launching point for a group discussion of how Chuck Close’s portraits and Bob Holman’s poems represent the artist-subjects.
Required	Monday, April 21, 10:30 – 12:30		*Illuminating the Word* training by Father Eric Hollas, O.S.B. (Order of Saint Benedict), Director, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Location: Event Space Father Hollas will talk about how the project came about and why the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library commissioned and pursued this project.
Optional	Tuesday, May 13, 10:30		Second Tuesday: Art Encounter Margaret Bullock leads an up-close experience with a rarely seen work of art from the museum’s collection. A hands-on art activity will follow the presentation.
Required	May 12, 10:30 – 12:30 or May 14, 5:30 – 7:30		Introduction to 2008 Neddy Location: Event Space
	Saturday, May 31		*2008 Neddy* opens
Required	June 2, 10:30 – 12:30 or June 4, 5:30 – 7:30		Walk-through: 2008 Neddy Location: Gallery
Required	June 9, 10:30 – 12:30 or June 11, 5:30 – 7:30		Introduction to Illuminating the Word and Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet Location: Event Space
Optional	Tuesday, June 10, 10:30		Second Tuesday Learn about Renoir’s life from Margaret Bullock, Curator of Collections and Special Exhibitions at Tacoma Art Museum.
Required	Saturday, June 21, 10:00 – 1:30		Calligraphy workshop and Docent Potluck Lunch Location: Classroom & Balcony This is a hands-on workshop led by members of the Tacoma Calligraphy Guild where we will learn about and practice doing calligraphy. And afterwards, we will have an informal potluck lunch together. More details about lunch closer to the date.
	Saturday, June 28		*Forty Part Motet* opens
Optional	Tuesday, July 8, 10:30		Second Tuesday Explore the music history behind the sound installation by artist Janet Cardiff, Spem in Alium by the English composer Thomas Tallis. This program will provide historical insight into this forty-voice 1573 composition.
	Saturday, July 12		*Illuminating the Word* opens
Required	July 14, 10:30 – 12:30 or July 16, 5:30 – 7:30		Walk-through: Illuminating the Word and Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet Location: Gallery
Optional	Tuesday, August 12, 10:30		Second Tuesday: Suzanne Moore Suzanne Moore is a painter and lettering artist whose book works explore the boundaries and links between word and image. She is one of two Americans creating illuminations for the Saint John’s Bible.