Morse Mondays
Morse Monday Art Trips
Docent Training
Family Program Training

The Morse Monday Program is designed to further knowledge about art history in general and the Museum's collection in particular.  These informative meetings are open to Museum members as well as to volunteers and are held at 9:45 a.m. in the McKean Pavilion.

Monday, October 5

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

Monday, October 26

History of Film
Lisa Cook, Lecturer, Film Department, University of Central Florida

Monday, November 30

Changing Landscapes, Changing Visions
Jan Clanton, Associate Curator for Adult Programs, Orlando Museum of Art

Monday, January 25

American Music

John Sinclair, D.M.A., Artistic Director and Conductor, Bach Festival Society, Rollins College

Monday, February 22

Louis C. Tiffany's Quest of Beauty
Jennifer Thalheimer, Curator and Collection Manager, Morse Museum

Two special art trips have been planned for active Morse Museum volunteers this year. These trips have a limited capacity and are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please contact Danny Blaydes at (407) 851-3079. These trips include:

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Gamble Place, Port Orange, Florida, and the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida, to tour the exhibition Reflections—Paintings of Florida 1865-1965 from the Collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Ablin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens, Winter Park, Florida to tour the exhibitions Maidens and Monsters—The Art of Science Fiction, Adventure and Fantasy and The Bach Festival Celebrates 75 Years, and The Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, Florida to see Regional Dialect—American Scene Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection.

 

Special Exhibition Training

Learn all about the season's new installations and exhibits with a special training session on Monday, October 19, with Museum curator Donna Climenhage. The session begins at at 9:45 a.m. in the McKean Pavilion

Docent Training Course

The eight-session docent course about artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, introduced this past winter, will be repeated in 2010 with various modifications and improvements.

Completion of the course is required for all docents-in-training and active touring docents, and attendance records are kept. No docents-in-training will be added to the tour schedule until they have attended all eight sessions. Active touring docents who attend all eight sessions will be given priority on the tour schedule; eventually, the tour schedule will only include those docents who have attended all classes. Given understandable conflicts for certain dates, two to three years is allowed for completion of the course. Each class session will run from 9:45 a.m. to noon Mondays, and of course, any interested volunteer is welcome.

Monday, January 11

19th Century Background: Society, Politics, and the Arts

Monday, January 18

Tiffany's Early Years, 1848-78; and Tiffany Glass

Monday, February 1

Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Artistic Decorator

Monday, February 8

Styles and Trends in the Art of Tiffany's Time

Monday, February 15

Marketing and Sales at Tiffany's Companies

Monday, March 1, 2010

Laurelton Hall; and Late Tiffany Production (Enamels, Jewelry, Pottery)

Monday, March 8

Epilogue I: Tiffany's Retirement Years and the Laurelton Hall Fire

Monday, March 15

Epilogue II: Tiffany's Artistic Legacy; and Hugh and Jeannette McKean

Docents who are confirmed to help with the Museum's Family Programs should plan to attend training at 9:45 a.m. in the Pavilion on the following dates.

Monday, November 2:  Docent training for Friday Evening Family Tours, museum staff

Monday, June 7:  Docent training for Summer Family Programs, museum staff

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