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Object Lessons: Is it crowded in here...?
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Friday, January 14, 2011. Is it crowded in here? Lately, whether due to inclement weather or perpetual lack of funds, the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) has been crowded. This isn’t news to anyone who regularly commutes during rush hour(s). But the other day 5 trains passed me by before I squeezed myself between two large coats and was carried onto the train by sheer force of the tide. The crowd is his domain, just as the air is the bird's...
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Object Lessons: November 2010
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. My mother always said that if you used a machine to make it then it wasn't a quilt! Visitor to the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY. The Art Institute of Chicago has recently re-opened the Textile Galleries, which will be dedicated to rotations of the permanent collection as well as a space for temporary exhibitions. The inaugural exhibition Contemporary Fiber Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection.
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Object Lessons: December 2010
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Friday, December 17, 2010. On Wednesday of this week fellow Fellow in Museum Education, Kate Moioli, gave an express gallery talk on the Art of Chairs. Her choices inspired me to revisit my favorite pair of chairs in the Art Institute, a pair of musician’s chairs from the 18. I have always been drawn to these petite perches for the posterior because they embody everything social about the 18. There was luxury (a joy in fact! Century was dom...
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Object Lessons: Reflexive Images
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Friday, January 7, 2011. Anyone who has ever taken French 1 has had the pleasure of vous vous asseyez. Y'all sit yerselves down" is the best example of an English/Texan equivalent). The verb is reflexive and the action, in this case, is performed upon the same subject that is enacting (woah nelly! Baron Denon and Mauzaisse. Lithograph on off-white wove paper. Perhaps one of the most delightful forms of reflexive art is when the function is ...
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Object Lessons: Two Quilts
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. My mother always said that if you used a machine to make it then it wasn't a quilt! Visitor to the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY. The Art Institute of Chicago has recently re-opened the Textile Galleries, which will be dedicated to rotations of the permanent collection as well as a space for temporary exhibitions. The inaugural exhibition Contemporary Fiber Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection.
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Object Lessons: Have a Seat!
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Friday, December 17, 2010. On Wednesday of this week fellow Fellow in Museum Education, Kate Moioli, gave an express gallery talk on the Art of Chairs. Her choices inspired me to revisit my favorite pair of chairs in the Art Institute, a pair of musician’s chairs from the 18. I have always been drawn to these petite perches for the posterior because they embody everything social about the 18. There was luxury (a joy in fact! Century was dom...
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Object Lessons: Blue Genes
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Tuesday, December 14, 2010. Portrait Head (Glass) 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. If it were a snake it would have bitten me right between the eyes. It's blue! The face, a youth perhaps when Augustus-style hair and a clean shaven face. Could it be that this was International Klein Blue? At the Hirschorn in Washington, D.C. (pictured above) had sponges, sticks, and globes all tinted, painted and dyed International Klein Blue. F...Blue has ...
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Object Lessons: Personal Things: Patch Boxes
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Monday, December 13, 2010. Personal Things: Patch Boxes. In Berthe Morisot’s Woman at her Toilette. Items of the toilette are some of the most intimate since they come in contact with the naked body, the body which is not yet dressed for social appearance, yet they play a very public role as well. Consider the painting by Francois Boucher of the Madame du Pompadour at her Toilette. A new Scene to us next presents,. Patches were part of an e...
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Object Lessons: September 2010
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Insights from a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. The Black Box Experience. Museum visitors who find the Black Box experience jilting from the white gallery walls of contemporary art spaces might find comfort in the knowledge that it is only human to be completely blind and confused upon entering the space. While I couldn't find a copy on YouTube, here are some stills. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The Black Box Experience. Gifts to the C...
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