TAM Docents: Desperately seeking docent for November 14

Hello Docents-

I am now desperately seeking some additional support to help out Anne Seago this Friday on November 14. Is anyone available to for 2 hours between 1 – 3 pm? It would make the groups more manageable to break them down.

 

Tour Type:	General Museum Tour
Tour Contact:	Ann Schuster
Organization:	Pierce College
Date & Time:	November 14 from 1 – 2 pm (40 students) and from 2 – 3 pm (40 students)

 

Thank you,

-Jana

 

Jana Wennstrom

Volunteer Programs Coordinator

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, Washington 98402

T: 253.272.4258 x3030

F: 253.627.1898

JWennstrom@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TAM Docents: Information on Snowbound 2008

Attached is information regarding Snowbound and the Snow Job installation associated with that event. Thanks to all of you that joined us for the lecture and potluck yesterday!
Best regards, Jana

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1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402

 

NEWS RELEASE

October 30, 2008

Media Contact: Alyssa Rosso, Public Relations Coordinator, 253.272.4258 x3002, arosso@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

Tacoma Art Museum’s Second Annual Snowbound Celebration

Community Festival Offers Free Admission and Features Wintry Series of Art Installations

 

(Tacoma, WA) –Tacoma Art Museum invites visitors to escape the cold inside the museum with an afternoon celebrating the many delights of winter during Snowbound. The second annual celebration offers free museum admission for all visitors on Sunday, December 14 from noon to 5 pm and features three temporary art installations created by local artists on view throughout December.

 Tacoma artists Marc Dombrosky and Shannon Eakins will create Snow Job, three temporary installations that are inspired by Snowbound’s wintry theme. For the first, the artists wrap the hundreds of stones in Richard Rhodes’s stone wave sculpture with secondhand sweaters and blankets assembled at random. The installation addresses the diversity of our community: how we share, take care of one another, and protect ourselves. After January 4, each of the garments used in the installation will be laundered and donated back to the community. This installation is on view December 9 through January 4.

During the Snowbound festival on December 14, Dombrosky and Eakins will simulate a snowdrift with thousands of snowflakes made from recycled office paper. Periodically throughout the day, the drift will be blown about with electric-powered leaf blowers, creating a simulated blizzard. Visitors will feel as if they’ve walked into a snow globe. Dombrosky and Eakins will also install Shreddy, a life-size polar bear rug made from shredded office paper. Shreddy will be on view in the lobby December 13 through 16.

In addition to the Snow Job installations, the December 14 festivities will feature snowflake making, winter sing-alongs, and knitting circles. The Rainier Ringers, a community-based English hand bell choir, will fill the museum with joyful music. Tacoma’s “Feisty Knitters” will install knitted sleeves throughout the museum. Visitors have an opportunity to take care of last-minute shopping at the Museum Store, with members receiving a special 20 percent discount.

Schedule of Festival Events:

12:15 pm	Rainier Ringers English handbell choir in the Lobby
1 pm	Snow Queen and Snow King crowns in the Classroom
2:30 pm	Memory Singers Sing-Along in the Lobby
Ongoing	Snow Job Snowstorm in the Event Space
Ongoing	Knitting Demonstration with the Feisty Knitters in the Atrium
Ongoing	Hands-On Snowflake Making in the Open Art Studio
Ongoing	MemberShop Sale in the Museum Store

                     

Dates for Snow Job installations:

December 9 - 14	Blankets and sweaters wrap the stones in Richard Rhodes’s stone wave.
December 13 - 16	Shreddy, a life-size polar bear rug made from shredded office paper in the Lobby.
December 14	Simulated blizzard and snowdrifts created from recycled office-paper snowflakes in the Event Space.

                     

In addition to the Free Community Festival, Tacoma Art Museum offers visitors under age 18 free admission throughout the month of December. When times are tough, families sometimes have to sacrifice things that they cherish, including museum visits. In October, the patrons at the Tacoma Art Museum Gala collectively contributed the funds to provide for the month of free admission. In doing so, the museum becomes more accessible, offering greater opportunities for the community to connect through art, even in these challenging economic times. Free admission for youth is Tacoma Art Museum’s gift to the families of the region this holiday season.  

Celebrity Cake Studio and The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation are proud to support Snowbound.

Tacoma Art Museum connects people and builds community through art. The museum serves the diverse communities of the region through its collection, exhibitions, and learning programs, emphasizing art and artists from the Northwest. The museum’s five galleries display an array of major national shows, the best of Northwest art, creatively themed exhibitions, and historical retrospectives. In addition, there is an Education Wing for children, adults, and seniors with an art resource center, classroom, and studio for art making. Tacoma Art Museum is located in Tacoma’s Museum District, near the Museum of Glass, the Washington State History Museum, and historic Union Station.

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HOURS – Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm, Thursday 10 am – 8 pm, Sunday 12 – 5 pm. Open Mondays Memorial Day through Labor Day.

ADMISSION – Adult $7.50, Student/Military/Senior (65+) $6.50, Family $25 (2 adults and up to 4 children under 18). Children 5 & under free. Third Thursdays free. Members always free.

CONTACT – 253.272.4258, www.TacomaArtMuseum.org, info@TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

TAM Docents: docent + gallery guide visit to Open Satellite

Hello Docents-

Below is an invitation from Open Satellite in Seattle. This invitation has gone out to docents in our area so it is also a nice opportunity to meet other area volunteers should you choose to go.

Best regards,

-Jana

 

Jana Wennstrom

Volunteer Programs Coordinator

TACOMA ART MUSEUM
T: 253.272.4258 x3030

 

 

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From: Laura O'Quin [mailto:laura@opensatellite.org]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:48 AM
To: kathleenm@seattleartmuseum.org; jennw@seattleartmuseum.org; Paula McArdle; Jana Wennstrom; patrickm@bellevuearts.org; 'Deborah Sepulveda'; MariaReyna@henryart.org
Subject: docent + gallery guide visit to Open Satellite

 

Hello All,

 

We have a date and time!

 

 

Please Join Sara Krajewski Associate Curator at the Henry Art Gallery

in an informal gathering at Open Satellite

Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 10:00 AM

 

Refreshments will be served!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibition Dates: November 12, 2008 – January 17, 2009

Opening Event: Wednesday, November 12, 6-9 PM at Open Satellite

Artist Lecture: Thursday, November 13, 7 PM at the Henry Art Gallery auditorium

 

Location:          989 112 Ave NE, Ste 102, Bellevue, WA 98004

Contact:           Voice: 425 454 7355 / Email: info@opensatellite.org

Web:                www.opensatellite.org

Hours:              Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 PM, second Thursday of the month 12-8 PM

 

Through painting, sculpture, and installation, Los Angeles-based artist Chris Lipomi attempts to re-imagine distinct moments in art history. His humorous and unexpected take on conceptual art blends unique objects with appropriated and found materials to reconsider various eras, styles, and artists: from primitivism to Mike Kelley, from surrealism to Thomas Kinkade. At Open Satellite, Lipomi will reference a controversial 1942 collaboration between Marcel Duchamp and André Breton, continuing an investigation of specific watershed exhibitions that have influenced his development as an artist.

 

Lipomi orchestrates a proliferation of wildly diverse materials into markedly cohesive installations. In recent, critically acclaimed exhibitions, he has explored the manipulation of the primitive and exotic in modern art, recreating icons of early art (the Venus of Willendorf, cave painting, and tribal masks) and tracing their reappearance in recent times, from the work of Picasso to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jason Rhoades. By slipping into other artists’ personae, Lipomi chooses to emphasize a central fact of being an artist—that every artist performs within self-selected spheres of relationships, references, and formulas. His un-ironic stance pokes fun at insider attitudes, the aggrandizement of the art market, and the myth of artistic genius and originality.

 

About the Artist:

Chris Lipomi was born in Miami in 1975 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles (BFA 2004). He has had recent solo exhibitions at Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles; Renwick Gallery, New York; and Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand, as well as at venues in Zurich, Cologne, and Frankfurt. His work was recently acquired by the Seattle Art Museum.

 

About the Curator:

Sara Krajewski is Associate Curator at the Henry Art Gallery. Since 1998, Krajewski has curated exhibitions of contemporary art, concentrating on photography, film, video, and installation art. Her projects have included solo presentations by Rodney Graham, Walid Raad, Steve Roden, Santiago Cucullu, Liz Magor, and Kelly Mark, and group shows Viewfinder and The Violet Hour. She has held curatorial positions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Harvard University Art Museums. Her essays and criticism have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and publications including Artweek, artUS, and Art on Paper.

 

About Open Satellite:

Open Satellite is a contemporary art exhibition hall for the Seattle metropolitan area. The residency-based program provides an opportunity for emerging and mid-career artists from outside the region to work for an extended period to create large-scale artwork in any medium. Exhibitions are staged four times annually with every fifth show focused on architecture as a critical position.

 

Open Satellite was formed in 2007 and is sustained by Su Development.

 

Above: Chris Lipomi, Untitled, 1999. Photograph.