MMFA Docent Volunteers
MMFA Docent Volunteers
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  • HOME STUDIO ACTIVITIES
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    • EXHIBITIONS and ADULT PROGRAMS >
      • EXHIBITIONS, Current
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      • SCULPTURE GARDEN >
        • SCUPTURE GARDEN ARCHIVE
      • ADULT PROGRAMS >
        • Ekphrasis: A Monthly Book Club about Art
        • Films
        • Lectures and Gallery Talks
        • Short Course
    • DOCENT COUNCIL >
      • Docent Council Archive
    • DOCENT HANDBOOK
    • DOCENT ROSTER 2019-20 >
      • DOCENT EMERITUS
    • DOCENT TRAINING SUMMER 2020
    • TRAINING RECAPS
    • DOCENT APPLICATION
    • DOCENT PHOTOS >
      • THE DOCENT WALL
      • DOCENT EMERITUS PHOTOS
      • FIELD TRIPS
      • DOCENT PRESENTATION PICS 2016
    • DOCENT EXHIBITION AND MORE >
      • DOCENT EXHIBITION 2016 >
        • JOURNEY THROUGH THE COLLECTION PHOTOS
      • DOCENT EXHIBITION/FAMILY FUN DAY
  • MPS Tours, Archives
    • Becoming Alabama Curriculum Guide
    • MPS KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM 2020 >
      • KINDERGARTEN MOVE WITH ME
      • Gallery Stop Stations 2020
    • KINDERGARTEN ARCHIVES >
      • ART OF BAKING AUDIO LINK
      • CAKEWALK STATIONS
      • CAKEWALK SCRIPT IDEAS
    • FIFTH GRADE TOUR LESSON PLANS >
      • MPS AMERICAN SCENE 5TH GRADE TOUR >
        • TOUR OVERVIEW
        • TOUR STRUCTURE
        • TOUR CATEGORIES
        • OUTREACH
        • CURRICULUM GUIDE
        • STUDIO
        • ARTWORKS
        • CONTENT STANDARDS
        • VOCABULARY
  • BLOG
  • RESOURCES
    • VIDEOS
    • TOURING STRATEGIES
    • GENERAL BACKGROUND
    • EXHIBITION BACKGROUND
  • ARCHIVES, VARIOUS
    • Welcome Angie Dodson
    • DOCENT GRADUATION 2017
    • DOCENT TRAINING ARCHIVES >
      • 2017-18 Training Materials >
        • August 13, 2018 >
          • MoMA Interactive: What is a Print?
          • FRANK STELLA PRINTS
        • August 28, 2017 >
          • MPS 5 Addendum Group 1
        • Early American Portraits and 19th Century Still Life
        • October 30, 2017 >
          • 19th Century Genre Painting and Realism
        • November 6, 2017 >
          • Uncommon Territory
        • November 13, 2017 >
          • VTS Video
        • November 6 and 13 Recap
      • NEW DOCENT PRESENTATIONS 2017
      • 2016 First Docent Training Pics
    • GRADUATION 2015
    • RIVER REGION VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
    • SUMMER ENRICHMENT 2017
    • EXHIBITION IMAGES, ARCHIVED
    • EXHIBITION ARCHIVES >
      • PRESENT EXHIBITIONS
      • 1917-2017: A Century of U.S. Airpower from the Air Force Art Collection
      • Beth Lipman Label Copy
      • Beth Lipman
      • Dinner Bell
      • Frank Stella Prints: A Retrospective
      • Hans Grohs and the Dance of Death
      • Lynn Saville
      • Nature, Tradition and Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfueher Collection
      • Pairs and Partners >
        • Pairs and Partners
      • Photorealism
      • Rodin: Realism, Fragments, and Abstraction
      • Sewn Together: Two Centuries of Alabama Quilts
      • Taking it to the Streets
      • Women's Work
    • OLLI, ARCHIVES
    • SHORT COURSE ARCHIVES >
      • DOCENT SHORT COURSE, Spring 2015
  • TOUR PHOTOS
    • MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Docent Personal Event Page
    • BOCQUIN BABY SHOWER
    • Wanica Means in Baptist Commercial
    • Murphy Smith Wedding Reception
  • OLLI Course Schedule
  • Link Page
  • Mission Statement and Announcements
  • HOME STUDIO ACTIVITIES
  • DOCENT FAVORITES
  • DOCENT PROGRAM
    • EXHIBITIONS and ADULT PROGRAMS >
      • EXHIBITIONS, Current
      • EXHIBITIONS, Upcoming
      • SCULPTURE GARDEN >
        • SCUPTURE GARDEN ARCHIVE
      • ADULT PROGRAMS >
        • Ekphrasis: A Monthly Book Club about Art
        • Films
        • Lectures and Gallery Talks
        • Short Course
    • DOCENT COUNCIL >
      • Docent Council Archive
    • DOCENT HANDBOOK
    • DOCENT ROSTER 2019-20 >
      • DOCENT EMERITUS
    • DOCENT TRAINING SUMMER 2020
    • TRAINING RECAPS
    • DOCENT APPLICATION
    • DOCENT PHOTOS >
      • THE DOCENT WALL
      • DOCENT EMERITUS PHOTOS
      • FIELD TRIPS
      • DOCENT PRESENTATION PICS 2016
    • DOCENT EXHIBITION AND MORE >
      • DOCENT EXHIBITION 2016 >
        • JOURNEY THROUGH THE COLLECTION PHOTOS
      • DOCENT EXHIBITION/FAMILY FUN DAY
  • MPS Tours, Archives
    • Becoming Alabama Curriculum Guide
    • MPS KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM 2020 >
      • KINDERGARTEN MOVE WITH ME
      • Gallery Stop Stations 2020
    • KINDERGARTEN ARCHIVES >
      • ART OF BAKING AUDIO LINK
      • CAKEWALK STATIONS
      • CAKEWALK SCRIPT IDEAS
    • FIFTH GRADE TOUR LESSON PLANS >
      • MPS AMERICAN SCENE 5TH GRADE TOUR >
        • TOUR OVERVIEW
        • TOUR STRUCTURE
        • TOUR CATEGORIES
        • OUTREACH
        • CURRICULUM GUIDE
        • STUDIO
        • ARTWORKS
        • CONTENT STANDARDS
        • VOCABULARY
  • BLOG
  • RESOURCES
    • VIDEOS
    • TOURING STRATEGIES
    • GENERAL BACKGROUND
    • EXHIBITION BACKGROUND
  • ARCHIVES, VARIOUS
    • Welcome Angie Dodson
    • DOCENT GRADUATION 2017
    • DOCENT TRAINING ARCHIVES >
      • 2017-18 Training Materials >
        • August 13, 2018 >
          • MoMA Interactive: What is a Print?
          • FRANK STELLA PRINTS
        • August 28, 2017 >
          • MPS 5 Addendum Group 1
        • Early American Portraits and 19th Century Still Life
        • October 30, 2017 >
          • 19th Century Genre Painting and Realism
        • November 6, 2017 >
          • Uncommon Territory
        • November 13, 2017 >
          • VTS Video
        • November 6 and 13 Recap
      • NEW DOCENT PRESENTATIONS 2017
      • 2016 First Docent Training Pics
    • GRADUATION 2015
    • RIVER REGION VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
    • SUMMER ENRICHMENT 2017
    • EXHIBITION IMAGES, ARCHIVED
    • EXHIBITION ARCHIVES >
      • PRESENT EXHIBITIONS
      • 1917-2017: A Century of U.S. Airpower from the Air Force Art Collection
      • Beth Lipman Label Copy
      • Beth Lipman
      • Dinner Bell
      • Frank Stella Prints: A Retrospective
      • Hans Grohs and the Dance of Death
      • Lynn Saville
      • Nature, Tradition and Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfueher Collection
      • Pairs and Partners >
        • Pairs and Partners
      • Photorealism
      • Rodin: Realism, Fragments, and Abstraction
      • Sewn Together: Two Centuries of Alabama Quilts
      • Taking it to the Streets
      • Women's Work
    • OLLI, ARCHIVES
    • SHORT COURSE ARCHIVES >
      • DOCENT SHORT COURSE, Spring 2015
  • TOUR PHOTOS
    • MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Docent Personal Event Page
    • BOCQUIN BABY SHOWER
    • Wanica Means in Baptist Commercial
    • Murphy Smith Wedding Reception
  • OLLI Course Schedule
  • Link Page

DOCENT TRAINING ARCHIVES

Docent Training Winter/Spring 2017
ALL DOCENTS      NEW DOCENTS       PROGRAMS and EXHIBITIONS       HOLIDAYS

January 8               Boydell Shakespeare Gallery Engravings
    
                               Hamlet at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival 
                                   Federico Uribe: Transformart
                                  Student Art Exhibition:
 Whimsical Creatures and Imaginary Landscapes 

January 29           Look Here, Look Now: Fashion Costume, and Style in Art

February 19        Moonstruck: Works on Paper from the MMFA Collection

January 2             Holiday 
                               New Year’s Day Observed

January 5             Film: Midnight in Paris: Orientation Circle – Laura
5:30 P.M.

January 9            New Exhibitions and Visit to the Goolsby’s 
9 – 9:45              Look Here, Look Now: Fashion Costume, and Style in Art: Orientation Circle – Margaret Lynne 
9:45 – 10:15      Moonstruck: Weil Print Room – Margaret Lynne
10:15 – 10:45    Break 
11 – 12                 Visit to the Goolsby’s House with Artist Larry Strickland

12:15 P.M.           Lunch at the Pike Road Butcher Block (by special appointment)

January 11          Ekphrasis Book Club
noon                  Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lillies by Ross King: Orientation Circle – Alice

January 16         Holiday 
Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 21         Student Art Exhibition: Threaded Through Tradition
to March 30

January 22        Family Art Affair – Moonstruck
2 – 4 P.M.

January 23       New Exhibitions and Recent Acquisitions
9 – 10                Sewn Together Background: Orientation Circle – Laura
10 – 10:30       Break
10:30 – 11:30  Nature, Tradition, and Innovation Background: Orientation Circle – Alice
11:30 – 12         Recent Acquisitions: Cole and Lipman: Galleries – Jennifer

January 26       Opening Reception and Fleischman Lecture
5:30 P.M.         Winter Exhibition Opening:  Sewn Together and Nature, Tradition, and Innovation
7 P.M.               Fleischman Lecture: “From Bed to Wall: Quilts as Art”: Auditorium – Jennifer Swope, Assistant Curator, David and Roberta Logie                                 Department of Textile and Fashion Arts at MFA Boston

January 28     Sewn Together: Two Centuries of Alabama Quilts
to April 16

January 28     Nature, Tradition, & Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfuehrer Collection
to April 23    

January 30     New Exhibitions 
9 – 10              Sewn Together: Galleries – Margaret Lynne
10 – 10:30     Break 
10:30–11:30  Nature, Tradition, and Innovation: Jennifer – Galleries
11:30 – 12        Learn More About the New Education Team Members – Orientation Circle         

February 2    Opening Reception for Student Art Show
5:30 P.M.

February 2     Gallery Talk and Demonstration with Chris Greenman (Ceramics)
6 P.M.    

February 4    Picturing Springtime
to April 9

February 6    Art of Baking Puppet Show and Cakewalk Tours
9 – 9:30    Art of Baking: Auditorium – Puppeteers
9:30 – 10:30    Puppet Show Training: Auditorium – Jill
10:30 – 11    Break
11 – 12    Cakewalk Tour Training: Galleries – Education Staff

February 7     Short Course: Alabama Quilts: Orientation Circle – Sunshine Huff and Carole King
noon

February 8    Ekphrasis Book Club
noon    The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro: Orientation Circle – Jennifer

February 13    Art of Baking Puppet Show and Cakewalk Tours and New Exhibition
9 – 10:30    Puppet Show Training: Auditorium – Jill
10:30 – 11    Break 
11 – 11:30     Cakewalk Tour Practice: Galleries – Docents and Education Staff
11:30 – 12     Picturing Springtime: Orientation Circle – Margaret Lynne

noon        Docent Council Meeting 

February 14     Short Course: Alabama Quilts: Galleries – Margaret Lynne and Ryan Blocker
noon

February 16    Bazaar d’Art
to March 12

February 20     Holiday 
President’s Day

February 21     Short Course: Alabama Quilts: Galleries – Margaret Lynne and Ryan Blocker 
Noon

February 23     Film: Basquiat: Jennifer
5:30 P.M.

February 25     Pairs and Partners: Curatorial Conversations: Weil Print Room
to April 16

February 26     Family Art Affair – Sewn Together
2 – 4 P.M.

February 27     Impressionism and Decorative Arts: New Docents
9 – 10        Cassatt, Chase (2), Hassam (2): Galleries – Alice
10 – 10:30      Break
10:30  – 11    Sargent and Tiffany: Galleries – Alice 
11 – 12    Discussion of New Docent Presentations

February 28     Short Course: Alabama Quilts: Orientation Circle – Margaret Lynne
noon

March 1     MPS Kindergarten Tour Program Art of Baking and Cakewalk
to March 15*    (with the exception of Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays) 9:45 and 11, *makeup date  

March 6    Realism/The Eight: New Docents
9 – 10:15    Sloan, Lawson, Davies, Luks, Henri, Glackens: Galleries – Alice
10:15 – 10:45     Break
10:45 – 12       Context for Impressionism and Realism

March 8     Ekphrasis Book Club
noon    Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland: Orientation Circle  – Education Staff

March 9    Bazaar d’Art
7 - 10  P.M.

March 11       Native American Family Day
1 – 4

March 13     Regionalism 
9 – 10         Regionalism: Benton, Fitzpatrick, Goldthwaite, Law: Galleries – Alice
10 – 10:30    Break
10:30 – 11    Regionalism: Orientation Circle – Alice
11 – 12    Tour Practice

March 14    Short Course: Pairs and Partners: Weil Print Room
noon

March 16    Offered at the Archives: Food for Thought: The Mt. Ida Quilt Project: Three Centuries, Two
noon           Quilts, One Community: Joseph M. Farley Alabama Power Auditorium – Sarah Bliss Wright

March 18     Gallery Talk: Quilting with Ellen Baker
10 

March 20     Holiday 
MPS Spring Break

March 21    Short Course: Pairs and Partners: Weil Print Room
noon

March 26     Family Art Affair - Nature, Tradition, and Innovation
2 – 4 P.M.

March 27     Realism 2 and Abstraction: New Docents
9 – 9:30     Realism 2: Hopper and Marsh Galleries – Alice
9:30 – 10:15    Realism 2 and Abstraction Background: Orientation Circle – Alice 
10:15 – 10:45     Break
10:45 - 12    Abstraction: O’Keeffe, Hartley, Marin, Davis, Weber, Zorach: Galleries – Alice

March 30     An Evening with Collector Gordon Brodfuehrer
6 P.M.

March 31     American History Homeschool Event: Galleries and Studios
8 - 12

April 3     Student Art Exhibition: Art in the Afternoon at Valiant Cross Academy
to May 7

April 3     New Docent Presentations 
9 – 9:30           New Docent Presentation: Galleries
9:30 – 10         New Docent Presentation: Galleries 
10 – 10:30    Break
10:30 – 11    New Docent Presentation: Galleries
11 – 11:30    New Docent Presentation: Galleries
11:30 – 12       New Docent Presentation: Galleries

April 4     Ceramics Short Course: Galleries – Jennifer and Alice

April 6, 7     Art of Baking Puppet Show 

April 10     Precisionism and Post War: New Docents 
9 – 10         Sheeler, Crawford, Guston, Lucas: Galleries – Alice
10 – 10:30     Break
10:30 – 11    Historic Context: Orientation Circle – Alice
11 – 12    Visit to Maya Lin Memorial

April 11    Ceramics Short Course: Galleries – Jennifer and Alice

April 12    Ekphrasis Book Club
noon        Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan: Orientation Circle – Jim Barganier with Alice

April 15     Technique and Vision:  A Snapshot of Photography’s Evolution
to June 18
April 17     New Docent Presentations
9  – 9:30    New Docent Presentation: Galleries
9:30 – 10    New Docent Presentation: Galleries
10 – 10:30    Break
10:30 – 11    Technique and Vision: A Snapshot of Photography’s Evolution: Orientation Circle – Michael
11 – 12     All Docent Meeting

April 23    Family Art Affair
2 – 4

April 24    Excursion to Jim Scott’s Garden

April 28    Exhibition Opening
5:30

April 29     M.A.G. Juror’s Critique
10 

April 29     Between Words and Images
to July 9

April 29     42nd Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition
to August 6 

April 29     42nd MAG Museum Exhibition Featured Artist Mary Lynne Levy
to August 6

May 1         Holiday
        Week of Flimp

May 6        FLIMP
10 – 2

May 8         New Exhibitions and Docent Council Elections
9 – 10         42nd Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition: Galleries – Michael 
10 – 10:30    Break
10:30 – 11    42nd MAG Museum Exhibition Featured Artist Mary Lynne Levy: Galleries – Margaret Lynne
11 – 11:30    Between Words and Images: Weil Print Room – Jennifer
11 – 12     Rodin Background: Orientation Circle – Education Staff
        
noon         Docent Council Meeting 

May 10    Ekphrasis Book Club
noon    Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock 
by Henry Adams: Orientation Circle – Michael

May 11    Student Art Exhibition: Learning Through Art Wares Ferry Road Elementary School
to June 25

May 18    Docent Graduation
5:30 P.M.

May 20    Rodin: Realism, Fragments, and Abstraction
to January 17

May 21     Family Art Affair
2 – 4

May 22    Summer Enrichment: Rodin
10 – 11        Rodin Realism, Fragments, and Abstraction: Young – Michael
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