I’m very excited to have been accepted into the North Carolina Museum of Art docent program. Art has always been a great love of mine since I was in grade school. My high school (Worcester, MA) was immediately across the street from the Worcester Art Museum and I spent a lot of time there. Worcester is very fortunate to have a really superb art museum with great collections and they offered wonderful oil classes to teenagers.
I taught art appreciation to post-secondary students many years ago at the Art Institute of Dallas and I really loved doing that. So finally after such a long time, I’m immersing myself into art again.
The “docents-in-training” (23 of us) at the museum will go through a training period of around 18 months. During this period we’ll learn about the collections in the ownership of the museum. We’ll study the art in the galleries, while learning about the artists, styles of art etc. We’ll study methods of adult learning and how to conduct museum tours to groups of all ages.
Fortunately there’s a lot of flexibility for me in this process. The museum classes are conducted on Tuesday mornings and I’m most often in town on that day of the week. Once our training is complete I’ll be able to select the times that I’ll be available to conduct tour groups. So this fits into my work schedule very easily.
What’s really exciting about this group of docents is that we’ll be the first group to provide tours within the “new” museum (expansion of the museum via a totally new building.) The new museum will open in April, 2010 and it will be a major event in Raleigh and in the art world. A lot of works that are currently in storage will now have permanent home for display. Right now, the museum is in the throes of construction and it’s quite fascinating. Little by little over the next months galleries will be shut down in the current building in prep for moving to the new building.
More on this adventure as it progresses! Check out expansion progress here:
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