The Charles Hosmer - Morse Museum of American Art

2012–2013

       
Morse Monday and Docent Training Course
Volunteer Art Trip
Special Exhibition Training
Family Program Training
Additional Volunteer Opportunities
Reading Room
       

Morse Monday and Docent Training Course

The Museum’s Morse Monday program and our docent training course about the collection are being consolidated again this year.  The meetings take place in the McKean Pavilion the last Monday of the month October through April, with a holiday break in December.  Docents-in-training must attend all the sessions before they can move forward with their instruction.  Active docents who attend the sessions are given priority on the tour schedule.  Each session will run from 9:45 a.m. to noon.  Any interested volunteer or member is welcome.

This year, we invite Morse Museum volunteers and members to continue learning about Louis C. Tiffany, the medium of glass, and the Museum’s collection.

Monday, September 24

Kick-off Coffee
Preview of season’s events and exhibitions for volunteers.

Monday, October 29

Nineteenth-century Background: Society, Politics, and the Arts, and Hugh and Jeannette McKean as Collectors.
Director Laurence J. Ruggiero.

Monday, November 26

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Early Years (1848–1878), Tiffany Glass, and gallery tour.
Curator of Education Betsy Peters and Curator and Collection Manager Jennifer Thalheimer.

Monday, January 28

Tiffany as an Artistic Decorator (including the Chapel displayed at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition), and Styles and Trends in the Art of Tiffany’s Time.
Curator of Education Betsy Peters and Curator and Collection Manager Jennifer Thalheimer.

Monday, February 25

Late Tiffany Production—Enamels, Jewelry, Pottery, and Opalescent Glass.
Curator of Education Betsy Peters and Curator and Collection Manager Jennifer Thalheimer.

Monday, March 25

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Gospel of Good Taste, and Marketing and Sales at Tiffany’s Companies.
Curator of Education Betsy Peters and Curator and Collection Manager Jennifer Thalheimer.

Monday, April 22

Tiffany’s Retirement Years, and Tiffany’s Artistic Legacy.
Director Laurence J. Ruggiero and Curator and Collection Manager Jennifer Thalheimer.

Volunteer Art Trip

There will be one field trip for active Morse Museum volunteers this year. The trip has a limited capacity and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please contact Danny Blaydes at (407) 851-3079. Trip details follow:

Date TBA

St. Petersburg, FL. Enjoy a day with glass artist Duncan McClellan at his studio.

Special Exhibition Training

Learn about this season’s new installations. Please meet in the McKean Pavilion at 9:45 a.m. on the following dates:

Monday, October 22

Docent training for Lockwood de Forest’s The Wreck, From the Morse Vaults—Recent Acquisitions, and other gallery updates. Director Laurence J. Ruggiero.

Monday, February 11

Docent training for Lifelines—Forms and Themes of Art Nouveau, The Art of Fountain Pens, and other gallery updates. Curator and Collection Manager Jennifer Thalheimer.

Family Program Training

Docents provide family tours during our popular Friday night and summer family programs. Docents who are confirmed to help with the Museum’s family programs should plan to attend training at 9:45 a.m., Monday, June 10, in the McKean Pavilion.

Additional Volunteer Opportunities

The following are particularly big events during our calendar year. To find out more, call the Education Department at (407) 645-5311, extension 111.

34th Annual Christmas in the Park
Docents are needed to help explain the windows displayed, and other volunteers are needed as hosts at the reception at the Pavilion preceding the event. Christmas in the Park is scheduled for Thursday, December 6, from 6:15 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Winter Park’s Central Park.

Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival
Museum volunteers work with staff to help children complete an art activity at our tent in the Children’s Workshop Village at the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival. During the three-day festival, the Morse will have its workshop open on Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16.

Reading Room

The Reading Room features about 600 titles, including book selections that relate to the film series at the Morse.  Recorded Museum lectures and trainings are also available.

Fall dates: November 2, 9, and 16
Winter dates: January 25; February 1, 8, 15, and 22
Spring dates: April 26; and May 3 and 10

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