Posts Tagged "gallery programs"

Every day at 1:30 p.m., I and other gallery teachers give tours of the exhibition Imagining the Past in France, 1250–1500—closing Sunday—which features illuminated manuscripts of kings and battles, myths and legends, Biblical heroes and parables, and other tales intended to bring the past alive before the eyes of medieval French readers. I like to [...]

 
Tags: gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, Hundred Years' War, illuminated manuscripts, Imagining the Past in France, Middle French, parchment, stained glass

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Jaime Ursic believes everyone should study drawing. Not just because she’s an artist, but because it gives you two near-magical gifts: looking closely, and slowing down time. She’ll show you how to do both at Drawing from Antiquity, a free monthly studio program at the Getty Villa. The Yale-trained painter and printmaker, who also specializes [...]

 
Tags: ancient art, artist-based programs, drawing, Drawing from Antiquity, drawing techniques, gallery programs, Saturday programs, studio art, studio courses

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What is your job at the Getty? I work as a gallery teacher at the Getty Villa. Gallery teachers lead tours in the museum and get to talk with visitors about art all day long. In the Museum we are surrounded by so much incredible art—and we get to share our enthusiasm about it with [...]

 
Tags: arts education, career paths, career profiles, careers, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, museum educators, Roman gardens

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I would like to introduce to the world the Villa Teen Apprentices. This group of talented young adults is the second batch to work with us at the Villa on creating an innovative new program for the Getty designed specifically for the interests of teenage audiences. Our goal for the program is to create an environment [...]

 
Tags: gallery programs, gallery tours, high school students, K-12 programs, teenagers

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Question of the Week is a new blog series inspired by our Masterpiece of the Week tours, offered daily at the Getty Center at 4:00 p.m. Featuring an open and upbeat discussion among visitors and gallery teachers, the tours feature a new object and pose a new question each week. Helen of Troy, the subject [...]

 
Tags: Francesco Xanto Avelli, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, Getty Museum collection, maiolica, Masterpiece of the Week, Question of the Week, Renaissance, tours

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Leading Spotlight Talks was one of my many tasks as a Multicultural Undergraduate Intern in the Education Department at the Getty Villa this summer. These talks are interactive discussions between an educator and visitors about one object at the Museum. Every month, a different artwork is highlighted, and during the month of August, the monumental [...]

 
Tags: gallery programs, gallery tours, Gela Krater, Greek art, interns, Multicultural Undergraduate Intern Program, Spotlight Talks, vase-painting

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Visitors are captivated by The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme.  I met a couple from Miami who were so intrigued by a review of the exhibition in The Art Newspaper that they decided to fly to L.A. to see it.  They quipped that the trip was far cheaper than flying to Paris, the second venue [...]

 
Tags: Film/Video, French art, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, Jean-Léon Gérôme

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Three o’clock is a good time to be at the Getty Villa. Depending on the time of year, the afternoon light might be streaming through the haze over the Inner Peristyle, a cool fog might be blowing in over the Herb Garden, or the sun might be high in the sky, reflecting off the ocean. [...]

 
Tags: Antiquities, careers, Focus Tours, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours

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On a recent Saturday night, nearly 20 visitors tried to make sense of a huge, mysterious painting in the Getty Center’s Flemish gallery. Mysterious, because our leader, Lilit Sadoyan, had covered up the painting’s accompanying wall text. We were forced to use our own powers of observation to determine what was going on within the [...]

 
Tags: Art Circles, discussion, Ferdinand Bol, gallery programs, Lilit Sadoyan, Paintings, Saturday evening events

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