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
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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