TAM Docents: A tour description example

Hello Docents-

Below is an example of a specialized tour description sent in by Linda. Don’t worry about polishing your descriptions up too much as the Communications Department gets their turn at whatever I turn in. The main point is to have a description of your tour that will distinguish it from the others and this is a great example.

 

Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post

During the early years of the 20th century, 1 out of 4 families received Saturday Evening Post in their homes on a weekly basis.  Norman Rockwell was a name they grew to love and revere for his cover art.  Often these covers became "affordable art" for their homes as well as a picture of life as they knew it.  Please join us for a tour of Tacoma's Rockwell exhibit and see more than 300 of these covers....along with some of the original oil paintings of these covers.  Learn how he planned and executed these works with docent led tours focusing on this aspect of his work.

Feel free to pick tour times during your already scheduled shifts but let me know the dates and times you would prefer (Wednesday, March 23 at 11 am, for example). Not all dates and times will likely be offered though. I will get out a schedule once I have everyone’s replies. We want to market these in a similar way that we did the public guided tours as that seemed pretty effective.

 

Thank you,

-Jana

 

Jana Wennstrom | TACOMA ART MUSEUM

Manager of Public and Volunteer Programs

 

T: 253.272.4258 x3030

1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington 98402

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

 

American Chronicles: The Art of

NORMAN ROCKWELL

February 26 – May 30, 2011

 

courage – family – innocence – freedom – history

 

TAM Docents: Reminder about Know More Art Lecture Series

Hello Docents-

I wanted to remind you about the lecture series that starts this weekend:

 

Know More Art Sunday Lecture Series: Visions of America
Sundays, March 6-27, 11 am

In conjunction with the exhibition American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, thematically explore the diverse range of American art. This series concludes with a half-day symposium, The Figure in Contemporary Art on April 3. Cost: Individual lectures $15 ($10 for members, $5 for students); complete series $65 ($40 for members, $20 for students). Educator clock hours available. Pre-registration is recommended. To purchase tickets for the lecture series, click here. 

 

In addition, I wanted to remind you that it isn’t required but, should you wish to attend, all docents get the student rate.

Thank you,

-Jana

 

Jana Wennstrom | TACOMA ART MUSEUM

Manager of Public and Volunteer Programs

 

T: 253.272.4258 x3030

1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington 98402

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

 

American Chronicles: The Art of

NORMAN ROCKWELL

February 26 – May 30, 2011

 

courage – family – innocence – freedom – history

 

Docent Opportunities

Dear Docents,

 

I hope you al l enjoyed your weekend. It was great to see a lot of you at the Norman Rockwell opening. Rockwell is here and the tours just keep coming. I have some upcoming open shifts and tours that I need your help with. Please let me know if you are available of any of the opportunities mentioned below.

 

Open Shifts:

 

This Friday, March 4, 2011 from 11 am to 3 pm

 

 

Tours:

 

Tour Type:                  Rockwell Group Tour DAYTIME

Tour Contact:              Terry 253-830-3737

Organization:               Weatherly Inn Senior Community

Date & Time:               March 9^th, 2011, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Guest Count:               10

 

 

Tour Type:                 Norman Rockwell

Tour Contact:              JONZ 

Organization:               Boeing Management Group

Date & Time:               Saturday, April 2, 2011, from 5:20pm to 6:20 pm

Guest Count:               30  

 

Warm regards,

Megan

 

Megan Ristine | TACOMA ART MUSEUM

Education Assistant

 

T: 253.272.4258 x3026

1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington 98402

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

 

American Chronicles: The Art of

NORMAN ROCKWELL

February 26 – May 30, 2011

 

courage – family – innocence – freedom – history

 

TAM Docents: Specialized Tours

Hello Docents-

I would like to feature some of your specialized tours to the public. We want to focus on the weekdays as weekends will already pull people in (though we might add the public tours then later). What I need from you is: 1) a brief description of your tour content (I have waited to ask so that you would have some time to come up with some basic ideas). This does not need to be overly detailed and it would be great if you worked with the other docents in your topic to come up with something that works for all of you. 2) weekday days and times for your specialized tour between March 16 – the close of the exhibition May 31. I will then take a look at what works with the Event Calendar and let you know the final choices. You may tour solo or as topic groups. You may offer a topic each month. Just determine what you would like to do and I will see what I can make happen.

I know this is an unusual approach and I appreciate you working with me on making this possible. Once we get specialized tour times and descriptions up, we might also get group tours asking for them so it will market the options as well.

Below is what I have in terms of docents and topics. If you do not see your name, pick a topic and let me know (your topic can even be different than any of those below). If I have you down for the incorrect topic, that is also worth emailing me about.

 

Docent 1	Docent 2	Docent 3	Special Rockwell Topic
Randi Kander			Rockwell and Children
Gaard Logan	Linda Flatley	Sue Stibbe	Saturday Evening Post
Errol Alexander	Barbara Abegg		An American Agent of Change: Norman Rockwell & The Man within the Painter: Rockwell Speaks Back
Karin Morris	Judi Keyser		Social Change
Sharon Berens	Sanjeev Narang	Elizabeth Walsh	4 Freedoms
Margaret Upshaw	Rose Oliveira	Sue Stibbe	Small Town America
Liliana Franz			American Social Change
Cathy Wiggins			Changing image of women in Norman Rockwell’s America
Barbara Beaver			Norman Rockwell: The Early Years

 

Thanks for all that you do for Tacoma Art Museum! I think we need to all get together for a social occasion / celebration once Rockwell is through. You really deserve it. I am so proud that you are all so generously jumping in for the tours! I think that is a little bit of moisture in the corner of my eye.

Best regards,

-Jana

 

Jana Wennstrom | TACOMA ART MUSEUM

Manager of Public and Volunteer Programs

& Interim Director of Education

 

T: 253.272.4258 x3030

1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington 98402

www.TacomaArtMuseum.org

 

 

American Chronicles: The Art of

NORMAN ROCKWELL

February 26 – May 30, 2011

 

courage – family – innocence – freedom – history