Joslyn Art Museum's 2006 Annual Report

EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Tours
858 total tours; 23,902 total participants
(397 student tours, 15,832 participants; 461 adult tours,
8,070 participants)
Lectures, Gallery Talks, and Special Programs
for Adults
57 programs; 6,066 total participants
Inspiration to Illumination: Collaborative Processes and The Saint
John's Bible (January 21); 1,724 participants
Donald Jackson, Artistic Director and Illuminator of the
Saint John's Bible (Members' opening lecture for the
exhibition Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible)
Inspiration to Illumination: Collaborative Processes and The Saint
John's Bible (January 22); 800 participants
Donald Jackson, Artistic Director and Illuminator of the
Saint John's Bible (public lecture for the exhibition
Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible)
Donald Jackson, Artistic Director and Illuminator of The Saint John's Bible, lectures
at the Members-only opening, January 21
Jun Kaneko: Madama Butterfly (March 4); 85 participants
Artist Jun Kaneko (public gallery talk for the exhibition)
I Love You, I Hate You Too (April 21); 67 participants
Special film screening presented in conjunction with the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Edward Weston: The Picasso of Photography (June 24);
125 participants
Alexander Nyerges, Director and CEO, The Dayton
Art Institute (public lecture for the exhibition
Edward Weston: A Photographer's Love of Life)
The Technique and Aesthetic of Edward Weston's Large Format
Photography (July 1); 63 participants
Michael Flecky, S.J., Professor of Fine Arts and Photography,
Creighton University (public gallery talk for the exhibition
Edward Weston: A Photographer's Love of Life)
Conservators and Museums (July 21); 40 participants
Adam Jenkins, Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation,
Philadelphia Museum of Art (talk for Joslyn Art Museum
docents and local conservators)
Mary Magdalene and the Art of Biblical Interpretation (July 22);
236 participants
Susan A. Calef, Ph.D., New Testament scholar, Creighton
University (public lecture)
The Da Vinci Code: Sorting Fact from Fiction (August 27);
218 participants
Creighton University Professors Ted Bohr, S.J.; Susan A.
Calef, Ph.D.; and Eileen Dugan, Ph.D. (public lecture)
Defining the Edge (October 7); 51 participants
Norman Geske, art historian and Director Emeritus of the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (public gallery talk for the
exhibition Art on the Edge: Modern & Contemporary Art
from the Permanent Collection)
Selections from Jay Bolotin's The Jackleg Testament
(November 5); 71 participants
Artist Jay Bolotin (public film screening and musical
program for the exhibition Jay Bolotin: The Jackleg Testament)
Video Interview and Lecture (Expansive Influences: American
Art Museums as Community Institutions) (November 18);
287 participants
Video Interview – one of America 's foremost collectors of
Western American Art, Bill Foxley, and Joslyn Director
J. Brooks Joyner
Lecture – Neil Harris, Ph.D., Preston and Sterling Morton
Professor in the Department of History, University of Chicago
(Members-only event celebrating Joslyn's 75th anniversary
kick-off and the exhibition Legends of the West: The Foxley
Collection)
AIA Public Lectures, free talks presented by the Lincoln-
Omaha Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) :
Isle of Druids and Celtic Warriors: Britain on the Eve of Roman
Invasion (March 26); 55 participants
Simon James, Ph.D., University of Leicester, England,
School of Archaeology and Ancient History
Hitting the Road: Archaeological Investigation of Nebraska's
Historic Trails (April 2); 86 participants
Paul Demers, Assistant Professor, Department of
Anthropology and Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Artist Jun Kaneko (right)
autographs a book after a
gallery talk in front of his
costume designs for Opera
Omaha's production of
Madama Butterfly, March 4
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