May your cups runneth over with joy and cheer in 2011! The DMA Teaching Programs staff wishes you all the best for a happy new year.
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Nicole Stutzman
Director of Teaching Programs and Partnerships
Archive for the 'Friday Photos' Category
We'll Take A Cup O' Kindness Yet, For Auld Lang Syne
Published December 30, 2010 Friday Photos , works of art ClosedTags: auld lang syne, cup, Dallas Museum of Art, New Year's Eve
Sculpture in Black and White
Published December 28, 2010 Friday Photos , works of art ClosedTags: Bourdelle, Brancusi, Hepworth, Maillol, photograph, Rodin, sculpture
Recently, the European galleries on the second floor were reinstalled to present anew some of the greatest works in the Museum’s collection. A cluster of beautiful sculptures commands a corner in the midst of the modern area. Works by Constantin Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, and Emile-Antoine Bourdelle appear in the foreground, while works by Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol can be seen just beyond the window.
Nicole Stutzman
Director of Teaching Programs and Partnerships
Friday Photo Post
Published December 17, 2010 Friday Photos , works of art ClosedTags: gold, Silver
For this week’s Friday Photo Post, I focused on works of art in the collection made of silver and gold. I decided to do this after singing Silver and Gold from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on the way to work. All objects can be found on the third floor of the Museum.
Amy Wolf
Coordinator of Gallery Teaching
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Insourced: Works by Dallas Museum of Art Staff
Published December 10, 2010 Creativity , Friday Photos , Museum Insight , People , works of art 1 CommentTags: Dallas Museum of Art, exhibition
Every two years, DMA staff are invited to showcase their artistic talents. Below are some things that make Insourced: Works by Dallas Museum of Art Staff a unique exhibition:
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It features sixty-eight works of art submitted by forty-three DMA employees.
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Submissions came from a variety of departments, which include Accounting, Collections Management, Curatorial, Development and Membership, Education, Exhibitions, Information Technology, Libraries and Imaging Services, Marketing, and Security and Operations.
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Artwork labels include a photograph of the artist, his/her position title at the DMA, and the number of years he/she has worked here.
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The exhibition lets us see a new and, at times, previously unknown side of our colleagues.
Below are images of the overall exhibition and a few artworks by DMA educators. View Insourced: Works by Dallas Museum of Art staff on Mezzanine 2 next to the Mildred R. and Frederick M. Mayer Library through March 13, 2011.
Melissa Nelson
Manager of Teaching in the Community
One of two submissions by Teaching Programs McDermott Intern, Karen Colbert.
Untitled/Bring Back My Saturday Morning by J.C. Bigornia, Coordinator of Family Experiences
Snow at Hammonasset and Drfitwood at Hammonasset by Stacey Lizotte, Head of Adult Programming and Multimedia Services
Friday Photos: Our Workspaces
Published December 3, 2010 Friday Photos 1 CommentTags: Museum offices, sneak peek
I thought it might be a nice change of pace this Friday to give you a sneak peek behind the scenes at our workspaces. We all agreed that photos of our desks were not allowed–who wants to see photos of stacks of papers?! But we all keep small collections of objects at our desks–either for inspiration or as mementos of tours and programs–and I visited each of my colleagues to snap photos of their collections. I hope you enjoy your tour of our workspaces.
Shannon Karol
Coordinator of Museum Visits
The wall behind my desk is decorated with posters, art projects, and a PhotoShopped image of the 2005-2006 McDermott Intern class in the Gothic Bed.
Nicole’s desk contains a rotating gallery of inspiration.
Melissa’s desk boasts a poem written by Will Richey, a Venn Diagram comparing Melissa and Amy C., and her screen from our screenprinting retreat.
Amy C.’s desk is a gallery of artworks collected from various community festivals.
Jenny loves the Muppets and has a box of Muppets at her desk.
Amy W. recently found a box full of plastic animals and has set up a parade by her phone.
Karen has an “inspiration corner” with photos, artwork, and quotations.
Ashley always keeps tea and a mug at her desk.
Go van Gogh Stays to Play
Published November 13, 2010 Art & Teaching , Friday Photos , Museum Insight , Technology , works of art 1 CommentTags: Go van Gogh, play, session, volunteers
Last Friday, Go van Gogh staff led a “play” workshop for our volunteers. This session led volunteers into the galleries to discuss and interact with works of art in a creative and fun way. Volunteers posed as the objects, created a yarn painting similar to Jackson Pollock’s Cathedral, as well as experience several discussions led in Spanish. A former McDermott Intern, Leticia Salinas, who facilitated the discussions, demonstrated various hand gestures and other techniques that could be utilized when facilitating programs with students who speak languages other than English.
The fun did not stop there! Volunteers used materials from the space bar in the Center for Creative Connections to create art, then continued their play session in the Tech Lab. Go van Gogh is an outreach program that brings the Dallas Museum of Art to 1st through 6th grade students in schools throughout North Texas. Allowing the volunteers to play was a unique approach of seeing the artworks in a new way and re-igniting the volunteers’ energy, enthusiam, and passion for teaching.
Karen A. Colbert
Teaching Programs Intern
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"Exotic" Mexican Objects at the DMA and Crow Collection
Published November 5, 2010 Community Connection , Friday Photos , works of art ClosedTags: appropriation art, Asian influence, bicentennial, Black Current, chinoiserie, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Decorative Arts, japonisme, Mexico, Mexico 200, posada, Tierra y Gente
In commemoration of the 2010 bicentennial of Mexico’s independence from Spain, many Dallas-area institutions have hosted events or created exhibitions related to Mexico’s past, present, and future. In addition to highlighting Mexican and Spanish colonial works in the Museum’s fourth floor galleries, the DMA currently has two special exhibitions celebrating Mexico’s 200th anniversary: Jose Guadalupe Posada: The Birth of Mexican Modernism and Tierra y Gente: Modern Mexican Works on Paper.
For me, one of the most intriguing objects in these galleries is an eccentric folding screen from colonial Mexico. This screen is elaborately painted and gilded in the European decorative tradition, but its central vignettes are drawn from a Flemish book of moralizing tales. Additionally, the ornate borders of the screen contain Japanese and Chinese-inspired motifs popular in European Rococo. This object connects with a recently opened exhibition, Black Current: Mexican Responses to Japanese Art, 17th-19th Centuries, also in celebration of Mexico’s bicentennial, at the Crow Collection of Asian Art.
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*Photography by George Ramirez
This exhibition includes Mexican-made objects, such as folding screens and rolled paintings, that were greatly informed by trade via the The Black Current. This marine trade route, established in the 16th century, ran eastbound from Manila to Acapulco, bringing goods such as decorative arts, silk, and spices to Mexico. Approximately 500 Pacific crossings were made along the dark river in the sea, feeding the growing market for luxury commodities in Mexico and generating Asian demand for American resources such as silver. These exchanges led to an artistic interchange that left lasting impressions on Mexican artists.
Cosmopolitan, Mexican-made objects, such as those in Black Current and the DMA Screen, reference their Asian precursors through the inclusion of Asian-inspired motifs, use of laquer, inlay and shells, and format of the folding screen and scrolls mounted on rollers. Additionally, they serve as visual documentation of ambitious exchanges between spatially disparate cultures.
Ashley Bruckbauer
Programs and Resources for Teachers Intern
Friday Photos: Art and Death in Africa
Published October 29, 2010 Friday Photos 1 CommentTags: Africa, Art, death
Last week, I led a training session for our docents related to the theme of “Art and Death in Africa.” In honor of this training session, and because Sunday is Halloween, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces from the African collection that relate to the theme of death. Some of these artworks represent ancestors, others were used at funerals, and one is a guardian figure for a reliquary. To learn more about these works, visit the African collections online.
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- Kneeling female figure with bowl and child, Yombe peoples
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- Standing female figure (rhythm pounder), Senufo peoples
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- Male twin figure (ere ibeji), Yoruba peoples
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- Standing male ancestor figure (singiti), Hemba peoples
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- Janus reliquary guardian figure, Kota peoples
Come back to the DMA Educator Blog on Tuesday when I’ll share information on additional projects that I have been working on related to African art.
Shannon Karol
Coordinator of Museum Visits
A Day in the Life: Intern Ashley
Published October 28, 2010 Art & Teaching , Friday Photos ClosedTags: French Art, Interns, Mourners, research, teacher workshop, teachers, tours
When asked to write a post about a day in life of my job here at the DMA, I wondered how I would ever choose what to include. My days at the Museum are so varied, from docent trainings on Mondays, meetings galore on Wednesdays, to catching up on anything yet to be done on Fridays. So, I decided to select a day that is one of my favorites and really illustrates the reasons why I love my time at the DMA: Thursdays!
My Thursday calendars primarily consist of two activities: touring and researching.
Touring: From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Thursday mornings I have the pleasure of touring K-12 students at the museum. I typically arrive at the docent desk fifteen minutes before my tour to ensure that everything is on schedule before welcoming the children into the Museum. Once everyone is in the door, we talk about museums, museum visits, and things to remember while on the tour. The students are always eager to share their knowledge of museum etiquette: “stay with the group,” “use inside voices,” and “keep a safe distance between ourselves and the art.” Next, we head into the galleries to look closely at six or so works of art. Since we only have an hour for our tour, I attempt to be as strategic as possible, selecting objects across a wide variety of cultures, time periods, and media. The students are amazed to realize how much they can discover just through looking and how much knowledge they already have. It is such a joy to share in their experience!
Research: My Thursday afternoons are spent researching various objects in the collection, compiling information, and writing text, which eventually becomes online resources for teachers to use in their classrooms. I also research special exhibitions and some of our collection for upcoming teacher workshops. For example, I’ve been conducting research the last few weeks on The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy in preparation for our upcoming workshop on French art. It is wonderful to have the opportunity to learn about periods in history and styles of art to which I’ve had little exposure or with which I’m less familiar.
Teaching and research are two of my passions, and I feel so lucky to be able to dedicate a large amount of my time to pursuing both.
Ashley Bruckbauer
Programs and Resources for Teachers Intern
Friday Photos: Mesquite ISD
Published October 15, 2010 Friday Photos 1 CommentTags: African masks, Center for Creative Connections, Mesquite ISD, Mourners, posada, teacher workshop
We are fortunate to have a long-standing partnership with Mesquite ISD students and art teachers, and we all look forward to their DMA visits each year. Last Thursday, thirty art and social studies teachers from Mesquite ISD spent the evening at the Museum exploring the galleries and special exhibitions in preparation for their upcoming DMA Mesquite Week visits. Teachers visited a variety of special exhibitions, including The Mourners, the new C3 installation Encountering Space, African Masks, and Mexico 200: Jose Guadalupe Posada. After spending forty-five minutes in the galleries, teachers created a lesson plan relating to one of the exhibitions that they will use in their classrooms. The Posada exhibition sparked a lot of great ideas with the teachers, and it was exciting to hear how they plan on having students turn 2-D illustrations into 3-D works of art.
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This week we welcomed 7th and 8th grade students from each Mesquite middle school for docent-guided visits. Students spent time in our special exhibitions, as well as in our European galleries. Art I students focused on art historical developments during their tour, while Art II students viewed contemporary art. Over 1,200 Mesquite middle schoolers visited the DMA this week, and we’ll see each Mesquite 6th grader before the month of October is over!
Shannon Karol
Coordinator of Museum Visits