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Show DOCENTS AND FRIENDS TRAVEL TO DENVER. On Wednesday, February.". ,25, docents and Museum Associates flew to the Denver Art Museum for an exciting day of looking and learning. The special attraction was the Thyssen-Bornemisza exhib,ition. This special collection from Switzerland encompassed 500 year$ of European art featuring several g;r eat m·asters. ., :,. The staff and volunteers. o( me Denver Museum welcomed rour group of fifty with coffee, juice ·and rolls. Following guided tours of the Thyssen exhibit, the group >was served lunch. Two volunteers .from the docent program of the .Deo~er Museum spoke to our group a bout their training procedures, expe.ctations for volunteers, and fields of study. ;-· During the afternoon, we participated in two guided tours: the American collection, and the Spanish and Pre-Columbian collection. Both.were extremely informative and ; well presented. · ' 'f(: As "museum legs" began to ;set in, some of us drifted into the ex.tensive Museum shop to browse am:o ng books and gifts; others ventured:out . , f~r . _9in11!~! t~ -~~arby re~tqur,qntJ . . Tared, but happy, we gathered '. for buses that returned us to the airport at 8:00. ·: ! Pat Jarvis of Kimball Travel ·. assisted Sue McCoy in planning travel arrangements. Everyone is reQdy to visit 'another museum next year! MUSEUM IN THE CLASSROOM During the second year of ' its existence the Museum in the Classroom Program, an outreach· :program from the Utah Museum ot' Fine Arts Education Department, do~bled its number of classroom presentations available, number of pre$entations given and totol sh.1dents reached. · ' ·.· In school year 1980-81 seven docents gave 93 presentations reaching 2904 students, grades one through twelve. Museum in ·::t he Classroom now offers ten 40-min~te 1 presentations to schools jn ·'. the ·:s alt Lake City, Davis, Jordan, Gro:nite and Murray School Districts. Th~ :pres~ntations are developed ·a-rQund art objects from UMFA reser·vf/ collections and objects purchased with special . gifts. Topics of the,, :~en I / 9 ?/ presentations are African Art, Art of Ancient Egypt Art of Ancient Greece Oriental Art, Pre-Columbian Ar't: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Early American Art, Arts of the Southwest Indians, Arts of the Northwest Indians and Elements of Art. As school teachers in Salt Lake Valley become more aware of this popular program and funds for field trips become limited the Museum in the Classroom docents anticipate a busy schedule in 1981-82 representing the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in the community. The program has doubled its potential by welcoming seven docent trainees who will be going into the classrooms next Fall. I DOCENT COUNCIL LUNCHEON AND GRADUATION The annual Docent Council luncheon and graduation was held at the home of Susan Christensen on Thursday, May 21. The following graduates received certificates and offijcial name pins: Julie Anderson, Joanne Barke'r, Helena Brinton, Joyce Brown, Susan Christensen, Marian Dunn, S~sqn ·· Ellison, Rolayne F~irclough, Ance ·· Guss, Lyn Hinckley, Vivian Hixson; Wilma Hooper, Ann .J ackson, Arlene Jonsson, Gretchen Mauerhan Jayne Middleton, ·. Ettalue Nelson: Carolyn Price, Mary Ellen Peacock, · Susanne Rahilly, Terry Rampton, Helen Stahlke, Lise Stringham. Mary Anne Turner, Eleni Vetas, and Lavon- , da Wilson. · These docents have completed their training year in the Museum and will join 20 othe·r docents in con- ' ducting public tou~s or bringing the Museum's collections and information to public school classrooms. CORRECTION TO THE FEBRUARY, 19a1 .· NEWSLETTER , . . The captions for the Pala perio~ . Vishnu stele and the bronze Krishna Rajamannar were reversed ift) _.h~ last newsletter. ; '. / <, J ·. J The Krishna Rajarnannar . ~o,ut~ India, 13th ce,,qtury, Ch~IJ(P~:U+ ' 1od,._1s the gift of Dc{ 1Qnd M.rf :Pr9.f9: pad1tya Pal. The Vist)nu stele, ·BiJ,ar, , East India, 11-12th century, Pala Per.".' ·. iod, i~ the gift of Mr. :M ichael Phillips.· ~rp~~ij:,· |
