TAM: docent comings and goings

Recent docent news:

Ÿ         Penny has decided to leave the docent program although you will still see her around sometimes as a regular volunteer. She joined her condo's owner association and the schedule conflicted with docenting in several ways.

Ÿ         Bev Bright is returning as a docent.

Ÿ         Deborah Kernan is taking a temporary leave from docenting. She is busy helping to plan her daughter's upcoming wedding, among other things.  

Ÿ         Sid Cloud is returning as a docent. He will be helping with private tours that need more than one docent and filling in during empty shifts, instead of doing a regular docent shift.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM: Lyle Rexer interview is attached

Attached is the Lyle Rexer interview with Chuck Close from the exhibition catalog.

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

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hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM NEW TRAINING: Chuck Close walk-through with Michelle Dunn Marsh on March 20

We have arranged for a special walk-through of Chuck Close with Michelle Dunn Marsh, Director of Aperture West, on Third Thursday, March 20 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. You probably remember Michelle from a year ago when she led a docent training on Paul Strand Southwest. She will discuss the broad range of photographic media Chuck Close incorporates in his work, including daguerreotypes and large-scale digital prints for the docents, in the format of a walk-through in the gallery, and will be able to answer your questions.

Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized the traveling exhibition A Couple of Ways of Doing Something and produced the accompanying publication.

 

Michelle is also doing a public lecture "Photography: Small to Big, Past to Present" on Third Thursday, March 20 at 6:30 pm, but it will surely be busy since it is Third Thursday, so we wanted to create a special opportunity for the docents.

 

We will only go ahead with this special training if at least 15 docents confirm that they will be attending.

Please let me know whether or not you will be able to attend before March 14.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM REMINDER: Chuck Close walk-through training

REQUIRED: Monday, March 3, 10:30 am-12:30 pm OR Wednesday, March 5, 5:30-7:30 pm – Chuck Close Exhibition Walk-Through with Rock Hushka
This training is for docents only, and Rock will be walking us through the exhibition. We changed the docent training schedule to add this walk-through instead of a lecture with Rock, because we felt a walk-through would be more useful to you.

 

The training will start with Rock doing the walk-through in the galleries (please meet in the gallery, stools will be available), and will also include a video portion in the Event Space.

 

Lastly, please make an effort to arrive before the training starts. I intend to make docent training all about the training, and the speakers will start on time. Any questions about schedules, books, resources, tours, or anything else will be addressed on an individual basis as much as possible, or towards the end of the training so that we do not waste your time.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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RE: TAM: Know More Art lectures

Judi pointed out that my last email did not mention the walk-through with Rock on March 3 and 5:

 

REQUIRED: Monday, March 3, 10:30 am-12:30 pm OR Wednesday, March 5, 5:30-7:30 pm – Chuck Close Exhibition Walk-Through with Rock Hushka
This training is for docents only, and Rock will be walking us through the exhibition. We changed the docent training schedule to add this walk-through instead of a lecture with Rock, because we felt a walk-through would be more useful to you.

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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From: Judi Keyser [mailto:judi.keyser@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:33 AM
To: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Subject: Re: TAM: Know More Art lectures

 

Heide - we still have the Close exhib. walk-thro on the 3rd, don't we?  (I hope)  I'll be out of town for lectures on the 11th but will be there on the 4th!  thanks for reminders.  Judi

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Heide Fernandez-Llamazares <HLlamazares@tacomaartmuseum.org> wrote:

Dear Docents,

I have only seen about five of you at the Know More Art lectures so far, and I would like to strongly encourage more of you to attend. The information the Know More Art series provides is extremely complimentary to the other docent trainings, and is given by experts in their fields.

As docents, you get to attend the lectures for free, and I want to point out that the lectures are not free for other volunteers—this is one of the perks of being a docent!

 

For the Chuck Close A Couple of Ways of Doing Something exhibition, it is highly recommended that you attend the following as training:

Ÿ         Tuesday, March 4, 6-7 pm – More than One Way to Make Something
Rock Hushka will trace the collaborative process in art, from the Renaissance workshops of the fifteenth century to contemporary artist groups.

Ÿ          Tuesday, March 11, 6-7 pm – Know More Art: Chuck Close: The Man behind the Camera
Rock Hushka will be giving this lecture, and it is highly recommended that you try to attend. I will be emailing some reading materials about Chuck Close's life and career for those of you who cannot make this lecture.

Ÿ          March 11, 10:30-11:30 am – Beyond the Snapshot, Modern Photography Techniques (Second Tuesday program)
Steve Davis, photographer and Evergreen College faculty member (and in the Tacoma Art Museum permanent collection—see Telling Stories), presents some of the older and more contemporary techniques of art photography. For those of you who think you need more training on photography, please try to attend this program.

 

Lastly, please make an effort to arrive before the training starts. I intend to make docent training all about the training, and the speakers will start on time. Any questions about schedules, books, resources, tours, or anything else will be addressed on an individual basis as much as possible, or towards the end of the training so that we do not waste your time.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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TAM: Know More Art lectures

Dear Docents,

I have only seen about five of you at the Know More Art lectures so far, and I would like to strongly encourage more of you to attend. The information the Know More Art series provides is extremely complimentary to the other docent trainings, and is given by experts in their fields.

As docents, you get to attend the lectures for free, and I want to point out that the lectures are not free for other volunteers—this is one of the perks of being a docent!

 

For the Chuck Close A Couple of Ways of Doing Something exhibition, it is highly recommended that you attend the following as training:

Ÿ         Tuesday, March 4, 6-7 pm – More than One Way to Make Something
Rock Hushka will trace the collaborative process in art, from the Renaissance workshops of the fifteenth century to contemporary artist groups.

Ÿ          Tuesday, March 11, 6-7 pm – Know More Art: Chuck Close: The Man behind the Camera
Rock Hushka will be giving this lecture, and it is highly recommended that you try to attend. I will be emailing some reading materials about Chuck Close's life and career for those of you who cannot make this lecture.

Ÿ          March 11, 10:30-11:30 am – Beyond the Snapshot, Modern Photography Techniques (Second Tuesday program)
Steve Davis, photographer and Evergreen College faculty member (and in the Tacoma Art Museum permanent collection—see Telling Stories), presents some of the older and more contemporary techniques of art photography. For those of you who think you need more training on photography, please try to attend this program.

 

Lastly, please make an effort to arrive before the training starts. I intend to make docent training all about the training, and the speakers will start on time. Any questions about schedules, books, resources, tours, or anything else will be addressed on an individual basis as much as possible, or towards the end of the training so that we do not waste your time.

 

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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