On Wednesday, June 28th a group of 10 docents/volunteers gathered in the museum’s galleries to partake in a training session with Jeanne Ferraro, the Hot Shop Interpreter, to discuss Lino Tagliapietra’s techniques and processes.
What did you learn?
Do you have more questions?
Was the training relevant?
The Bellevue Art Museum will be exhibiting Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer, Paintings and Sculptures 1979 – 2007 from May 22 - September 7, 2008. The exhibition is a mid-career retrospective and as the excitement builds for the opening of the exhibition (and possible field trip to BAM), it seems appropriate to reflect on the Sherry […]
The Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass exhibition has been open for nearly two months now and this is the perfect time to pause, reflect and discuss the docent experience with the exhibition. As one docent noted in regards to the Lino exhibition “it’s like trying to write a masters thesis!” […]
Here’s a great question that came up this weekend. Many people ask how did Tiffany get Joseph to look so “real” or “human” in his stained glass window (in the Contrasts exhibit). And I understood that the face and body were painted on the glass. Was it painted on using the grisaille […]
The Contrasts: A Glass Primer exhibition (November 2006 - November 2009) asks the viewer if there are other ways to think about works of art before rushing to judgment.
Focusing on the brutal/beautiful contrasts:
What makes Hank Murta Adams’, Platterhead, brutal? Can it not be deemed beautiful?
Why does the typical viewer think […]
Much of Wim Delvoye’s art relies on a strategy of provocatively juxtaposing - high and low culture, fine art and crafts, celestial ideas and agrarian traditions, transcendental aspirations and crude bodily functions - to expose the irony and paradox of our art-historical legacy and culture.
How do we define what is high and/or low […]
