TAM: about the Neddy

http://www.behnkefoundation.org/#neddy

 

Ned Behnke was a beloved member of the Behnke Family and a renowned and talented painter. Ned had a passion for the arts that extended beyond his own work. He appreciated the myriad forms that art takes and realized its importance in the community.

 

Shari D. Behnke founded the Neddy in 1996 as a way to honor Ned’s legacy as a visual artist. Realizing that supporting visual artists was an important and meaningful way to maintain a vibrant art community, Shari and her husband John worked with Anne Focke to develop the protocol for the Neddy.

 

The Neddy under the auspices of the Behnke Foundation has become one of the most important art awards in Seattle. The artists who have been recognized are vibrant and talented with a unique vision and a strong passion for their art as well as for art in the community.

 

The Neddy is an annual fellowship given by the Behnke Foundation in the memory of Robert E. (“Ned”) Behnke, in celebration of his life as an artist. Each year, two $15,000 fellowships are given – one in painting and one in a rotating discipline. In 2008, the award will be given in both Painting and Ceramics. Nominated artists also receive $1,000.

 

The fellowship is an unrestricted fellowship. Artist recipients will determine how to use the award to best help their work, but because The Neddy is given through the auspices of the Behnke Foundation, the Foundation must record the activity the fellowship supports and the artist’s achievements. The Foundation will assist the artists to clarify objectives for the fellowship year. At the end of the fellowship year, the artist will submit a report describing how the award was used and the effect it had on their work.

 

An artist cannot apply for a Neddy fellowship. Instead, to identify fellowship recipients, a group of nominators comprised of local artists, collectors and other members of the arts community nominate an artist using the criteria as set out by the Behnke Foundation. These nominators are known for their expertise and their familiarity with the works of artists in the area. A separate selector, also an arts professional, then reviews applications from the nominees, conducts site visits and selects artists to receive the fellowships.

 

Each year a catalog is produced to highlight the creative achievements of The Neddy Award recipients along with an exhibition. For the last two years, the Foundation has been proud to partner with the Tacoma Art Museum who has generously produced both the catalog and exhibition.

 

See more images of Ned Behnke’s paintings at http://www.behnkefoundation.org/#neddy.

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

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TAM: movie after docent training

After the Neddy docent training on Monday, May 12 at approximately 12:30, the museum staff will be watching a BBC documentary on the Saint John’s Bible, “The Illuminator and a Bible for the 21^st Century” (and eating lunch) in the Event Space.

You are welcome to stay and watch too, with or without your lunch.

 

This is the only article I could find about the movie:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/04_april/15/illuminator.shtml

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

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CORRECTION: TAM: notes for april 21 training

Kathryn Whitacre, one of our new calligrapher-docents, has brought up some very relevant additional information regarding the April 21 training notes:

                     

Mistakes on vellum are actually very easy to correct as the ink and pigment sit up on top of the skin. You can use a sharp razor and scrape off the offending error. The reason the line was put into place the way it was, was because the text had been completed and the correction would have unduly disturbed many lines of writing, when other more traditional ways to correct the mistake could be used. Thus the old method of drawing an arrow to where the missing text is to be inserted using Middle Age contrivance.

 

Another piece of info from Kathryn’s notes on the April 21 lecture:

The Muslim roots are with Abraham, too. Which in today's climate is probably pretty important to many who loose sight of that fact. Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship the same single God.

 

Also, at one of the upcoming trainings, I will make sure to introduce the new calligrapher-docents.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

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

Hi,

I am still looking for a second docent for 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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Find the docents/Staff = TAM: surf our new website!

New Game: Spot the docents !!!

I was clicking thru the new website and found a bunch of docents and
(visitor services) / (store) staff in the photos ...

Margaret Upshaw is here:

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/Page.aspx?nid=83

Kathe, Thomas and Roxanne are here (click on the next
to loop thru the photos and you'll find them)

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/Page.aspx?nid=84

Heide is here:

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/Page.aspx?nid=5

Grace is here:

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/Page.aspx?nid=6

Who else is there ???!!!

Regards
Sanjeev

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We have a new website:

www.tacomaartmuseum.org

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FW: TAM: notes for april 21 training

One important correction: it is the 150^th anniversary of Saint John’s Abbey and University (not 100^th).

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

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From: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:44 PM
Subject: TAM: notes for april 21 training

 

Attached are the notes that were taken by Gaard and Karin at the April 21 docent training with Father Hollas.

 

Thank you Gaard and Karin!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

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TAM: notes for april 21 training

Attached are the notes that were taken by Gaard and Karin at the April 21 docent training with Father Hollas.

 

Thank you Gaard and Karin!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM: one more training on July 8

Dear Docents,

Please add the following lecture to your docent training calendar as a training for Janet Cardiff that is “highly recommended”.

 

The Musical History of British Composer Thomas Tallis       

Tuesday, July 8 from 10:30-11:30 am

Douglas Fullington, Director of the Tudor Choir in Seattle, discusses the historical context of Thomas Tallis’s 16^th-century 40-voice musical composition featured in Janet Cardiff’s sound installation.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

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TAM: art history lectures on Orientalism for Fall 2008

In the Fall of 2008, Tacoma Art Museum will be showing Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art from September 20, 2008 – January 9, 2009.

 

The Frye Art Museum (one of my favorite local museums) in Seattle will also be showing two exhibitions from the Dahesh: Empire and Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and The Rediscovery of Egypt (both on view September 20, 2008–January 4, 2009).

 

This summer, the Frye Art Museum is offering three art history courses in conjunction with upcoming exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum.

Developed for adults and educators, this series of courses—taught by art historians Rebecca Albiani and Kolya Rice—provides a comprehensive understanding of ancient Egypt, the cultural legacy of Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign (1798–1801), the rise of orientalist art, and the spread of Egyptomania. Participants venture in-depth into a historical study of how art has been used as an instrument and put into the service of “nation-building.”

 

Please seriously consider taking one or more of these art history courses as preparation for Tacoma Art Museum’s Oasis exhibition. The course that is most relevant to us, is the one titled “Orientalism” from July 29 to August 1.

We will, of course, also have docent training for the exhibition here at the museum, but these courses are a great opportunity. Also, I will be giving you some recommended readings over the summer.  

I would love to know about it if you do plan on taking one of these courses, and I would be most willing to help you set up a car pool for driving to the Frye.

 

For more info and to register:

http://www.fryemuseum.org/pages/workshopstop.htm

 

The Art of Ancient Egypt

This course provides an introduction to the art and architecture of the eternally fascinating culture of Ancient Egypt. In a series of lectures, art historian Rebecca Albiani examines pyramids, temples, sculpture, and painting from 3,000 years of Egyptian history—meeting Tut, Nefertiti, and even Cleopatra—to understand the social, political, and religious ramifications of Egyptian art.

Taught by Rebecca Albiani

July 22–25, 10:15 am–12:45 pm

 

Orientalism

Orientalism explores Europe’s rediscovery of ancient Egypt after Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign and Western captivation with exotic, near Eastern themes throughout nineteenth-century art. Artists as different as Ingres, Delacroix, and Renoir painted harem themes. What does the allure of the East say about the art of the West? This course introduces the concept of Orientalism, examines the work of important Orientalist artists, and considers the ideological aspects of both visual images and architecture in the cultures under study.

Taught by Rebecca Albiani

July 29–August 1, 10:15 am–12:45 pm

 

Art and Empire: Representing National Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art

Taking as its point of departure the upcoming Frye exhibitions Napoleon on the Nile and Empire, this course introduces the ways art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has participated in, and responded to, “nation-building.” Art historian Kolya Rice presents a general survey of many key artists and styles of the past two centuries. Organized chronologically the course traces a trajectory from Jacques-Louis David, whose paintings fueled the fires of the French Revolution and later buttressed Napoleon’s efforts to forge an empire, to contemporary artists such as Fred Wilson, who are engaged in postcolonial critiques of entrenched, stagnant institutions.

Taught by Kolya Rice

August 12–15, 10:15–12:45 pm

 

 

Rebecca Albiani, a Seattle-based art historian, is a Ph.D candidate in Renaissance art history, and received an M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from University of California Berkeley, where she majored in art history and spent her junior year in Venice. As a student, she was a graduate lecturing fellow at Washington’s National Gallery and a Fulbright Scholar in Venice. Since 1997 she has taught the annual Frye art history lecture series.

www.albianiart.com

 

Kolya Rice, currently a Ph.D candidate in modern and contemporary art history and criticism at the University of Washington (UW), was raised in the Seattle area and received his M.A. from Rice University. He has taught courses on western art, theory, and criticism at the UW and Seattle University over the past decade, and is an adjunct professor in the UW’s Art History and Master of Arts in Museology program.

 

Art History Course Fees:
$75 for Frye members
$85 for nonmembers
Fee for all three Art History courses:
$200 for Frye members
$230 for nonmembers

 

 

Thanks for all your time!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM: help us advertise Chuck Close in Conversation with Bob Holman

Dear Docents,

Please help us advertise the upcoming program “Chuck Close in Conversation with Bob Holman.”

When you are in the galleries as a docent—especially in the Chuck Close gallery—I think it would be very effective to have the docents also telling visitors about the May 11 program. Please carry some of the info cards for the program with you, tell visitors about the program, and pass out the cards. You can pick up the cards at the front desk. They are the blue-turquoise cardstock cards with text only, that give all the info about the May 11 program.

 

This really is a unique opportunity to hear two very relevant artists talk about their work and collaboration.

Tell all your friends too!

 

Chuck Close in Conversation with Bob Holman
Sunday, May 11 at 2 pm
New Location: Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma
Chuck Close, one of America’s foremost portrait artists, speaks with New York School poet Bob Holman about their collaborative work in A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by Chuck Close, Poems by Bob Holman. Reflecting on his forty-year career, Close will discuss his approach to capturing images of longtime friends through multiple media. Holman will perform the praise poems written to accompany the portraits. Cost is $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Tickets are general admission only and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Advance purchases are highly recommended. Purchase tickets online now or contact education@TacomaArtMuseum.org or 253.272.4258 x3030.

 

See you there and thank you!

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

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FW: TAM: summer shifts

I forgot to include Thursday evenings on the list of available docent shifts:

-          Thursday, July 25 from 5-8 pm

-          Thursday, July 31 from 5-8 pm

-          Thursday, August 7 from 5-8 pm

-          Thursday, August 14 from 5-8 pm

-          Thursday, August 28 from 5-8 pm

-          Thursday, September 4 from 5-8 pm

 

 

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Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

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From: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:38 PM
Subject: TAM: summer shifts

 

As you heard Father Hollas say, the Phoenix Museum of Art had to double the amount of guided tours that they offered when they hosted the Illuminating the Word exhibition.

 

In that spirit, the following shifts are open during the summer, mostly Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays.

Sanjeev, who usually docents on Saturdays, is taking a break from docenting this summer.

 

May:

·         Friday, May 9 – docent needed to help with Pierce College tours between 12:30 – 2:00

·         Tuesday, May 20 – docent needed for Chihuly Walking Tour at 1:30 pm

·         Monday, May 26 from 11-3

·         Thursday, May 29 from 11-3

·         Friday, May 30 from 11-3

 

June:

·         Monday, June 2 from 11-3

·         Sunday, June 8 from 12-4

·         Monday, June 9 from 11-3

·         Sunday, June 15 from 12-4

·         Monday, June 16 from 11-3

·         Saturday, June 21, anytime covering the 12 noon tour

·         Monday, June 23 from 11-3

·         Sunday, June 29 from 12-4

·         Monday, June 30 from 11-3

 

July:

·         Saturday, July 5, anytime covering the 12 noon tour

·         Monday, July 7 from 11-3

·         Saturday, July 12 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, July 13 from 12-4

·         Monday, July 14 from 11-3

·         Saturday, July 19 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, July 20 from 12-4

·         Monday, July 21 from 11-3

·         Saturday, July 26 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Monday, July 28 from 11-3

·         Wednesday, July 30 from 11-3 (private tour at 1:00 for a group of elderly yet “sprightly” nuns!)

·         Thursday, July 31 from 11-3 (private tour at 11:00)

 

August:

·         Saturday, August 2 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Monday, August 4 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 9 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 10 from 12-4

·         Monday, August 11 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 16 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 17 from 12-4

·         Monday, August 18 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 23 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 24 from 12-4

·         Monday, August 25 from 11-3

·         Friday, August 29 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 30 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 31 from 12-4

 

September:

·         Monday, September 1 from 11-3

·         Saturday, September 6 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, September 7 from 12-4

·         Monday, September from 11-3

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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TAM: summer shifts

As you heard Father Hollas say, the Phoenix Museum of Art had to double the amount of guided tours that they offered when they hosted the Illuminating the Word exhibition.

 

In that spirit, the following shifts are open during the summer, mostly Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays.

Sanjeev, who usually docents on Saturdays, is taking a break from docenting this summer.

 

May:

·         Friday, May 9 – docent needed to help with Pierce College tours between 12:30 – 2:00

·         Tuesday, May 20 – docent needed for Chihuly Walking Tour at 1:30 pm

·         Monday, May 26 from 11-3

·         Thursday, May 29 from 11-3

·         Friday, May 30 from 11-3

 

June:

·         Monday, June 2 from 11-3

·         Sunday, June 8 from 12-4

·         Monday, June 9 from 11-3

·         Sunday, June 15 from 12-4

·         Monday, June 16 from 11-3

·         Saturday, June 21, anytime covering the 12 noon tour

·         Monday, June 23 from 11-3

·         Sunday, June 29 from 12-4

·         Monday, June 30 from 11-3

 

July:

·         Saturday, July 5, anytime covering the 12 noon tour

·         Monday, July 7 from 11-3

·         Saturday, July 12 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, July 13 from 12-4

·         Monday, July 14 from 11-3

·         Saturday, July 19 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, July 20 from 12-4

·         Monday, July 21 from 11-3

·         Saturday, July 26 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Monday, July 28 from 11-3

·         Wednesday, July 30 from 11-3 (private tour at 1:00 for a group of elderly yet “sprightly” nuns!)

·         Thursday, July 31 from 11-3 (private tour at 11:00)

 

August:

·         Saturday, August 2 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Monday, August 4 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 9 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 10 from 12-4

·         Monday, August 11 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 16 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 17 from 12-4

·         Monday, August 18 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 23 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 24 from 12-4

·         Monday, August 25 from 11-3

·         Friday, August 29 from 11-3

·         Saturday, August 30 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, August 31 from 12-4

 

September:

·         Monday, September 1 from 11-3

·         Saturday, September 6 from 10-2 or 1-5

·         Sunday, September 7 from 12-4

·         Monday, September from 11-3

 

 

Heide Fernandez-Llamazares

Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator

hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

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