| Required Training | Sunday, October 5,
1 – 2 pm | Altar Workshop for Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead
Since the museum will continue to observe Dia de los Muertos, it will be helpful for everyone to be knowledgeable about this tradition. This workshop training will provide an overview of the meanings and layers of altars on display during DOD. Meet in the Classroom. |
| | Tuesday, October 7, 6- 7 pm | Magi and Masquerade
This lecture will introduce the concept of western artists looking east by examining Renaissance and Baroque precedents. Because the East was also the Holy Land, religious painters such as the Bellinis, Durer, and Rembrandt used turbans and camels to enliven their biblical scenes. |
| Required Training | Monday, October 13, 10:30 – 12:30 pm | Speaking Parts walk-through with Margaret Bullock and a walk-through of Oasis |
| Highly Recommended for upcoming exhibition | Sunday, October 12,
2 – 3:30 pm at Seattle Public Library | David Macaulay on his newest publication “The Way We Work”
Downtown Seattle Public Library, 4th Avenue
David Macaulay: The Way He Works will be the feature exhibition at Tacoma Art Museum January 17-June 14, 2009. Macaulay is best known for the international bestseller "The Way Things Work," presents a visual journey through the human body. Macaulay's numerous awards include a MacArthur "genius" grant and a Caldecott Medal for "Black and White."
Paula invites you will stop to her house in south Seattle for soup, bread, and beverages. 4-6pm. Please rsvp by October 9th
4742 35th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118 – four miles south downtown Seattle, easy access from I-5. 206-722-2074
http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=audience_current_featuresdetail&cid=1159559403821 http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=branch_central_events&branchID=1 |
| | Tuesday, October 14, 6- 7 pm | Egyptomania
Napoleon’s ill-fated military campaign in Egypt (1798–1801) sparked an inexorable fascination with ancient Egyptian art. Obelisks, sphinxes, and winged goddesses appeared in paintings and became motifs in decorative arts and architecture. |
| | Thursday, October 16, 6 pm | Donald Fels on Trading Stories
Northwest artist Donald Fels discusses how his work has evolved over the past two decades leading up to the signboard paintings in his current exhibition at the museum, as well as the recent paintings on view at the UW Tacoma Gallery. |
| | Tuesday, October 21, 6- 7 pm | Orientalism and the Grande Odalisque
A taste for the exotic prevailed in nineteenth-century France even among painters who never set foot in North Africa. Delacroix and Renoir sketched Algerian women from life, while Ingres invented his odalisques. Why did harem scenes so intoxicate the painters and collectors of this time? |
| | Tuesday, October 28, 6- 7 pm | Academic Instruments
Though sometimes forgotten, the art of European Academies resonated both aesthetically and politically with its contemporary audience. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists, such as Jacques-Louis David, who fueled the fires of the French Revolution and buttressed Napoleon’s campaign to forge an empire with his canvasses, will be discussed in this lecture. |
| | Tuesday, November 4, 6- 7 pm | National Identity: Us and Them
More than rendering the beauty of the natural world, the genre of landscape painting depicts place: ours and theirs. This lecture reveals how this genre was instrumental in the construction of national identities in the nineteenth century, drawing upon the work of key artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Albert Bierstadt. |
| Highly Recommended for background to Oasis | Tuesday, Nov. 11, 10:30 – 11:30 am | Second Tuesday: Through Others' Eyes: Ottomans and the West Seeing Each Other
There is a long history of European writers and artists describing and portraying the vast multiethnic Ottoman Empire that dominated the Near East and North Africa. What is less well known is that there was a similar tradition of Ottoman writers and painters representing the West. Ottomanist scholars Selim Kuru and Walter G. Andrews, from the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the UW, discuss these representations and the realities behind them. |
| | Tuesday, Nov. 11,
6 – 7 pm | Postcolonialism and the Voices of "Others"
Since the 1960s, with a strength like none other in history, the voices of the marginalized have obliged the world to listen. This lecture will trace a trajectory from art inspired by the civil rights movement, through feminism, to contemporary postcolonial critiques. |
| | Saturday, November 15, 1:30–4 pm | Melding Currents: Donald Fels and South Indian Sign Painters
Samuel Parker, Associate Professor at UW Tacoma and exhibition catalogue essayist, discusses how images in What Is a Trade? relate to historical changes in perceptions about the East and West in postcolonial India and the correlation between fi ne and commercial arts. He will be followed by Gary Hamilton, Professor of Sociology at UW Seattle, who will consider how global trade changes in ideologies and innovation. |
| Required Training | Monday, November 17, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm | Select an artist in Speaking Parts to research and present to the other docents. Sign up with Jana for the artist of your choice (though I would like to get everyone to do someone different). For those that cannot attend, you are still required to do the project and send in a written presentation to share with the group. |
