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C a r l o M a r a t t i Italian, 1625 –1713 Untitled, n.d. Ink and chalk on paper Bequest of Beatrice Hall Kneeland, 2008.10.3 University / College Programs Art Appreciation Course Learning to Appreciate Modern Art Jointly offered by Manchester Community College and the Atheneum, this four-session course taught by Charlene Shang Miller, Associate Museum Educator for Docent Program and University Audiences, offered participants the opportunity to expand their appreciation of art by exploring the museum’s collection through lively discussions held at the college and the museum. Curriculum-Structured Visits Curriculum-structured visits are tailored to amplify and enhance the content of a specific course or topic. Museum staff or docents work with faculty to plan an appropriate museum experience for their students. Faculty are also encouraged to work directly with the Education staff to utilize the museum’s galleries as classroom. Guided Visits Classes and groups may request “Looking at Art for College Groups” or special exhibition tours in which museum docents provide an introduction to the museum and lead active discussion of works of art in the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Internship Program Twenty-four college students and recent graduates were accepted and placed as museum interns in summer 2008-spring 2009 in the following departments: Curatorial, Archives, Education, Exhibitions, Institutional Advancement, Public Relations and Marketing, Registrar, and Museum Design. Adult Programs Art in Focus Art in Focus is a 20-minute, docent-led discussion providing an in-depth look at a single work of art each Thursday at noon and one weekend a month. Visitors explored more than sixty works of art in this series. Artful Lunch and Tea The Artful Lunch and Tea series focuses on special exhibitions and the museum’s collection in the format of gallery discussions and special trips with curators and educators. Refreshments afterwards allow time for conversation between speakers and participants. CSI: Conservation Science Investigation Museum conservators Stephen Kornhauser and Ulrich Birkmaier guided visitors through their examination process to prepare the special exhibition, What Lies Beneath: Revealing Painters’ Secrets. They discussed the use of x-radiography and infrared equipment to detect images underneath paintings, as well as the reasons behind discovered alterations. Sunday Serenades These concerts are presented by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in collaboration with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and highlights the museum’s collection and special exhibitions through programming for: Who Was Anna Tuels: Quilt Stories, 1750–1900 with works by Bach, Clarke, and Brahms At Home with Gustav Stickley: American Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection with works by Foote, Bernstein, and Dvorák The Ballets Russes: Celebrating the Centennial with works by Stravinsky and Prokofiev The Ballets Russes: Celebrating the Centennial with works by Strauss, Ravel, and De Falla Dana Engstrom DeLoach Friday Gallery Talks Andrew Wyeth: Twentieth-Century American Realist, Erin Monroe, Curatorial Fellow, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Works on Paper The Body in Contemporary Art, Charlene Shang Miller, Associate Museum Educator for Docent Program and University Audiences The Art of Spatial Engagement, Anne Butler Rice, Associate Museum Educator for Adult Audiences Who was Anna Tuels? Quilt Stories, 1750–1900, Lynne Bassett, Exhibition Curator Young Americans: Photographs of Sheila Pree Bright, Sheila Pree Bright, Artist The Contemporary Craftsman: Influences of the Arts & Crafts on Today’s Designs, Kevin Rodel, Co-author of Arts and Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, and furniture designer in Brunswick, Maine What Lies Beneath: Revealing Painters’ Secrets, Stephen Kornhauser, Chief Conservator, and Ulrich Birkmaier, Senior Paintings Conservator Quilts and Quilters, Lynne Z. Bassett, Exhibition Curator for Who was Anna Tuels? Quilt Stories, 1750–1900 From Monarchy to Marxism: Politics in Art, Erin Monroe, Curatorial Fellow, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Works on Paper Once Removed: Art Not Made for a Museum, Anne Butler Rice, Associate Museum Educator for Adult Audiences What Lies Beneath Van Gogh’s Self Portrait?, Henry DePhillips, Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry, Trinity College Lincoln: Man, Myth, and Memory, Frank Mitchell, Exhibition Curator Ethical Dilemmas in Conservation, Ulrich Birkmaier, Senior Paintings Conservator The Ballets Russes: Celebrating the Centennial, Eric Zafran, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art Floral Fantasies, Jeremiah Patterson, Associate Professor of Foundations at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford 17
Exoticism in Western Couture, Lynne Z. Bassett, Exhibition Curator for Foreign Accents: The Ballets Russes and Western Couture The Past is Always Present: Artists Look Back, Charlene Shang Miller, Associate Museum Educator for Docent Program and University Audiences Folkert de Jong, Susan L. Talbott, Director and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum From the Salon to the Garden: 19th Century Painting in England and France, Eric Zafran, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art Drawing from the Masters This series offered artists and art lovers alike a chance to receive formal art instruction using works from our own collection in a five-session class. Instruction occurred both in the galleries and in the art studio. The themes explored this year were: S u m m e r Renaissance Drawing Materials and Techniques with Jeremiah Patterson, Artist Folkert de Jong in the Matrix Gallery 18 F a l l The Human Form with Karen Dolmanisth, Artist S p r i n g Fashion and Fabric with Patrick Earl Hammie, Artist Lectures At Home with Gustav Stickley: Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection, Opening Lecture and Conversation with Stephen Gray, and Tommy McPherson, Director of the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama, and former Director and CEO of The Craftsman Farms Foundation Bringing Balanchine to America: “Chick Austin and the Hartford Catastrophe,” Eugene R. Gaddis, William G. DeLana Archivist and Curator of the Austin House Arthur Wesley Dow and the American Arts and Crafts Ideal, Nancy Green, Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Arts and Crafts Pottery, Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Rutgers University, and Lecturer in the Sotheby’s Institute Program in American Art Diaghilev and Style, Alastair Macaulay, Chief Dance Critic for The New York Times Docent Memorial Lecture: “Looted European Art: The Hermann Goering Collection,” Nancy Yeide, Head, Department of Curatorial Records, National Gallery of Art Serge Diaghilev and the Adventure of Ballet Modernism, Lynn Garafola, dance historian, Barnard College Austin House Visits Hour long docent-guided tours of the Austin House are offered twice a month on the first and third Thursdays. This year the house visits were especially popular due to the exhibition Magic Façade: The Austin House and also due to a play about Chick Austin at the Hartford Stage. Nearly 400 eager visitors toured the Austin House this year. Docent-led Tours Drop-in Museum Highlights Tours and /or Special Exhibition/Collection Theme Tours are offered daily for the public. Depending on the theme, these hour-long tours focus on the highlights of our collection, or on special exhibitions, or specific themes. Groups may book docent-led tours of the collections and exhibitions. In addition, docents conduct tours for evening and weekend events, booked by external clients. Offsite Programs Education staff and docents conduct illustrated talks about the collections and special exhibitions at libraries and community centers by request. Access Art The Access Art bus picks up groups of up to twenty passengers and drives them to the museum at no charge. Groups may arrange to take a guided tour, or to view the museum on their own. The bus then Faith and Fortune: Five Centuries of European Masterworks, in the Morgan Galleries transports them back to their original site. The Access Art bus is wheelchair accessible and operates one day a week. The service is made possible by a generous grant from the St. Paul Travelers Connecticut Foundation. Large Text Labels Booklets with large-print labels are made available for specific exhibitions and are part of the museum’s goal toward accessibility. Verbal Imaging The Verbal Imaging Program is a service for blind or partially sighted adults. Visitors are escorted through the museum by specially trained docents who explore works of art through detailed descriptions. First Night Hartford This free festive program on New Year’s Eve offered families the opportunity to create their own masks in the museum, while jugglers and puppeteers entertained in the theater. Docent Program At year’s end the Docent Council has one hundred active members who implement many of the museum’s programs. They are required to attend docent training and have specific tour requirements to fulfill. Docent Training Docents attended training sessions on a variety of topics focusing on special exhibitions and collections. In addition to staff educators, docents, and curators, training speakers included: Kathryn Curran, Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College; Cheryl Robertson, independent scholar; and Jeremiah Patterson, Associate Professor of Art, Hartford Art School. Docents-In-Training Program Thirteen Candidate Docents completed their education on looking and interpreting art, art history and best practices in gallery teaching for various audiences. They have either graduated into the Docent Program after a final evaluation or are currently completing the mentoring process with experienced docents, leading to graduation. Docent Evaluation Docents are required to be evaluated formally by a staff and peer docent evaluator once every three years. 19
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