See the Museum’s collection from an insider’s point of view with three new tours at the Getty Center offered just for summer. Why special tours for summer? We have more visitors in July and August—and we find that you’re often feeling more adventurous during the warmer months. In response, we in the education department decided to [...]
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Tags: free events, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, Music, outdoor sculpture, summer programs, tours
I wouldn’t have become a museum educator if I didn’t believe in the potential magic of an art museum. I’ve had enough experiences at the Getty Villa to know that I’m not crazy—that special experiences can be had with works of art. It may not happen all the time, but it can happen, and when [...]
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Tags: accessibility, arts education, blind visitors, gallery tours, Touch Statue, tours
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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 [...]
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Tags: gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, Hundred Years' War, illuminated manuscripts, Imagining the Past in France, Middle French, parchment, stained glass
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 [...]
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Tags: arts education, career paths, career profiles, careers, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, museum educators, Roman gardens
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 [...]
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Tags: gallery programs, gallery tours, high school students, K-12 programs, teenagers
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: gallery programs, gallery tours, Gela Krater, Greek art, interns, Multicultural Undergraduate Intern Program, Spotlight Talks, vase-painting
“Focus is power,” said theater director Peter Sellars to a packed crowd at the American Association of Museums annual meeting earlier this year. Artworks can make you recognize things you instinctively knew but weren’t able to articulate. They bring ideas into focus. This recognition is empowering; when we can name an idea or emotion, we [...]
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Tags: gallery teachers, gallery tours, Peter Sellars, philosophy
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 [...]
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Tags: Film/Video, French art, gallery programs, gallery teachers, gallery tours, Jean-Léon Gérôme
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During a tour of the new exhibition The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, curator Mary Morton stopped in front of Gérôme’s Snake Charmer and asked the audience, “What do you see?” Murmurs spread through the crowd. One brave little girl raised her hand and said, “There’s a boy, and he’s naked.” This statement might not [...]
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Tags: 19th century painting, gallery tours, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paintings, polychrome sculpture
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