TAM Docents: Cultural Competency and HIDE/SEEK

Hello Docents and VSS-

TAM Staff had a Cultural Competency training in advance of HIDE/SEEK that was recorded and our gracious staff person Lisa McKeown made a copy on DVD that can be watched in the ARC. I will make sure that DVD is in the Upcoming Exhibitions binder in the office of the ARC for you to view at your leisure. It is about an hour long should you choose to watch it all.

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

 

THE SECRET IS OUT / AND YOU’RE INVITED

HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

March 17–June 10, 2012

 

 

 

TAM Docents: Training Confirmation on March 16

Hello Docents-

I am finally able to provide a time for the March 16 training. Please note that Jonathan Katz will be our host for that training so we are in for a treat! He will also be able to offer information that will help us in regards to what other venues have experienced with this exhibition. I hope you can all make it.

 

Required Training

Friday, March 16, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Curator perspective of Hide/Seek with Jonathan Katz

 

Thank you for all that you do for Tacoma Art Museum!

-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

 

embrace art in everyday life ♥ Folk Treasures of Mexico ♥ October 29 - February 19

 

 

 

TAM Docents: Biennial Artist Presentation Material

Hello Docents-

Below is more info on a couple more of our Biennial artists. If you attended last weekend's Art from the Heart program, please let me know. Any feedback you may want to provide would also be appreciated since I was not able to be there myself.

Thank you,

-Jana

 

Juliette Ricci Lagman

Lives in Tacoma WA

Went to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

She grew up in Everett, Washington and has lived and worked in Chicago, Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland.

Website

http://www.juliettericciart.com/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/juliettericci

Etsy

http://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioRicci

Artist Statement

In my work I explore themes of self-image, work, life, and marriage.  These paintings are a reflection of things that happen in the everyday.  The bold colors and diaristic writing can sometimes be too revealing for the viewer, but are a true reflection of myself.  My art is used as a dual therapy, and expresses the positive and the negative in the hopes that the viewer may have had a similar experience or moment in their lives.  Like my favorite artists, I want to give permission to explore the everyday, to reflect on the music you are listening to, talk about your influences, reflect on the art book you are devouring, or film that changed your life.

Originally I began solely as a photographer, but found myself lured by the limitless possibilities of painting, along with the color and texture of the paint itself.  I love to write (letters, prose), and often explore themes on the loss of handwriting in today's high tech world.  My canvases are often treated as the pages of a diary- but on a slightly larger scale.  I wear my heart on my sleeve in life and in my work in the hopes that we can all learn from each other.

Paul Rucker

Website

http://paulrucker.com/

Four Score

http://paulrucker.com/projects/four_score/

Four Score

Year completed 2009

Medium Graphic Score (Paper) with Sound (MP3)

Dimensions 40 x 60

A play on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, and four graphic musical scores. The viewer is given an MP3 player and listens to corresponding compositions and arrangements. Each score measure 40 inches x 60 inches.

 

Four Score - Graphic Scores - Paul Rucker - YouTube = You can listen to Paul Rucker's explaining the features in his own words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLG0xrhSoc

 

Memphis Sanitation Workers (1968)

Coda: is a term used in music in a number of different senses, primarily to designate a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton // The Declaration of Sentiments // Seneca Falls Conference, 1848

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed …

 

 

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

 

embrace art in everyday life ♥ Folk Treasures of Mexico ♥ October 29 - February 19

 

 

 

TAM Docents: Biennial Presentation Follow-ups

Hello Docents-

I received 2 more bits that may be of assistance for Biennial tours.

Thank  you,

-Jana

 

From Barbara Beaver:

Jana,  Re Henry Tsang.  Tsang has several projects listed on Facebook, focusing on the contrasts of modern use of space and the original uses by the native peoples.  He has a permanent installation along False Creek walkway in B.C. juxtaposing Chinook Jargon (an early trade language) and modern day English, which eventually replaced it. Its composed of fiber-optic cable lighting and aluminum letters.  He also did a project of photos comparing Tiananmen Sq. Images of the wear and tear on the paving stones with a Canadian development of a Golf Course on land disputed by Native American militants.    I found very professional layouts on the web, but no personal information  in addition to his formal education.

 

 

Jana Wennstrom | TACOMA ART MUSEUM

Manager of Public and Volunteer Programs

T: 253.272.4258 x3030

 

embrace art in everyday life ♥ Folk Treasures of Mexico ♥ October 29 - February 19

 

 

Hello Jeremy-

Thanks so much for agreeing to edify us. The two questions that came up were:

1)    What is the significance of the colorful detritus at the base of the Trojan Horse figure?

The junk below the Trojan Horse is both pieces of the colorful "ribbons" that comprise the mane and tail, as well as leftover or cut-off boards.  My thought was "why clean up?" and/or "they were in a hurry."  Or even that the builders cleaned up most of the items, but left a few here and there.  I think those items suggest that the construction is relatively recent, awaiting reception by the intended party.  For me all that stuff kind of makes the whole scene more vital, more direct, suggesting a more specific moment in time and a more direct human presence/absence.  (They also, formally, tie the horse into the landscape.)

The "ribbons" themselves reference bunting (carnivals, car dealerships, grand openings...), "festival" lights (like Christmas lights), tassels on kid's bike handles, fireworks, or any other related multi-colored construct used as a code to communicate something exciting, desirable, positive, worthy of attention...  The Horse is "adorned" in a sense.  I like this code because it is visually stimulating, but although used sincerely in most every case in our world, the event they qualify is often underwhelming.  There's a tension there I'm trying to utilize- between an earnest, hopeful, positive act and the reality of oftentimes unremarkable or unnoticed results.  (But not always!!)
 

2)    The Tent City has all paths leading into the fire pit at the center but none away, what is the significance of that?

Any path 'away" (outside the ring of tents) wouldn't be trodden enough to show.  These folks have been here long enough to create travel patterns inside their community, but not outside because 1) they don't venture out nearly as often as they venture 'in' or between tents (see 'sub-trails') and 2) when they do venture outside the ring of tents, they can take any random direction they choose- there's no particular destination, therefore no visible path.

Good seeing you Jana!  Hope these help.

Jeremy
 

I appreciate you doing this and look forward to your answers.

Thanks again,

-Jana