Thursday, April 24, 2008

TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Monday, May 5 at 11:30

Can anyone lead a tour on Monday, May 5 at 11:30?

The tour is for a group of 25 photographers from Tacoma who will be on a “photo safari” of the museum building. We would like to give them a tour of the building architecture—something that will inform them about the building they are photographing, and possibly make them see it in a new way. The tour should be approximately 30 minutes.

 

If you would like to attend this tour as an observer and to learn more about the building’s architect and architecture, please let me know.

 

Please reply only if you are available, and I will confirm whether or not you are needed.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM: Docent Needed for Tour: Friday, May 9 at 12:30

Can anyone lead a tour on Friday, May 9 between 12:30 and 2:00?  

 

A group of 80 students is coming from Pierce College and would like a 30-minute tour of Renoir or Chuck Close (they have not yet decided which).

The group will be split into two smaller groups, with tours starting at 12:30 and 1:00. They will be alternating tours with free time in the gallery.

 

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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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

TAM: books for Illuminating the Word

A copy of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible is now available at the docent bookshelf.

It can be borrowed for a week at a time. To do so, please fill out the book check-out form at the front of the Docent Log binder.

 

The museum store will soon also be selling another, less expensive book about the exhibition:

The Art of Saint John's Bible: A Reader's Guide to Pentateuch, Psalms, Gospels and Acts (Paperback)

by Susan Sink (Author)

approximately $15

 

Both of the above books are excellent references.

 

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

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TAM: Don Fels

Dear Docents,

In the fall of 2008, Tacoma Art Museum will be showing an exhibition by Don Fels.

A copy of the catalog is at the docent bookshelf.

What is a Trade? Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India
September 13 – December 14, 2008



What Is a Trade? Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India presents sixteen large-scale paintings that explore trade and globalization in India. Fels’ conceptual starting point for this exhibition was Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s 1498 voyage to Malabar, India, in search of a direct sea route for the spice trade. This exhibition explores the historic and modern-day legacy of that expedition more than 500 years later.The exhibition opens May 2, 2008 at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane and travels to the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark College in Portland January 21 through March 18, 2010.

In 2004 and 2005, Fels traveled to Kerala (formerly Malabar), India, as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, to work with local commercial signboard painters on a body of work that examines globalization in India and traces its roots to Vasco’s voyage. Most of the signboard painters had formerly worked as billboard painters—until recently, all billboards in India were hand-painted, but cheaper and more efficient inkjet printers are making the painters obsolete. In light of this trend, Fels and his collaborators created work in the style of traditional hand-painted billboards and Bollywood advertising. The bright colors and strong graphic narratives make visually arresting statements about the historic and contemporary effects of trade and globalization.

This exhibition will be on view in Spokane from May 2 – June 29, 2008:

http://www.northwestmuseum.org/northwestmuseum/sub.aspx?id=2643

I do have a copy of the exhibition labels from the Spokane show—our labels will be slightly different. If you would like a copy of the Spokane labels, please let me know and I will email them to you individually.

Lastly, please refrain from buying the Don Fels catalog for now – I will give you more details in July.

Thanks for your time!

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

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TAM: Renoir lecture

Just a reminder that Margaret Bullock will be giving a talk on Renoir’s life on Tuesday, June 10 at 10:30 as part of the Second Tuesday programs, if you missed it the first time around.

 

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

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