TOUR EXPLANATION and ADVICE ON HOW TO BEGIN
What tours do we offer at the merged HAA?
Adult Tours
HAAB campus
10:15 New Exhibitions Walk-in - daily, explores highlights or in depth of any new exhibition
11:30 Western (W, F) or Asian (T, Th, Su ) Walk-in - daily – 1 hour general tour, docents select theme, but
accommodate requests
1:00 Japanese Language Walk-in (Will move to 10:15 November 1)
1:15 Highlights (Su) – 1 hour, topic accommodates visitors
1:30 Spotlight (T-Sa) - 30 minute tour, weekly advertised topic features an artist or specific work of art
2:30 Tour and Tea (T, Th, Su) – docents select theme; planned 2-4 months out to meet membership magazine publication deadlines, 1 docent hour tour followed by tea and cookies in the Cafe, served by a volunteer
1:30 Book Club (Sat) monthly, Book Club committee selects the books, discussion and gallery talk led by docents
11:00 Bank of Hawaii Family Sunday – 3rd Sunday of the month
6:00pm Art After Dark – ?art - last Friday
HAATCM campus
11:00 Walk-In – monthly on free Wednesday
1:30 Walk-In (HAATCM) daily
12:00 FHB – monthly, first Friday @ noon
School Tours
HAAB campus
All Tours begin at 9:00 and 10:30 am
Enhanced Thematic Tours – 1.5 hr tour ( Animals in Art (Gr Pre-K-3 and Special Ed), Kamishibai (Gr 1-2), East Meets
West (Gr 1-3), The Great Outdoors (Gr 3-8), Stories in Art (Gr 4-6), Let's Sketch (Gr 4-12), Treasures (Gr 4-12),
Art and Life in Colonial America (Gr 5), World Religion in Art (Gr 6-12), Global Village (Gr 6 and 11)
All enhanced tours have :
Hands-on activities
Meets DOE benchmarks
Have 4 required works of art
Collection Specific Tours – 1 hr tour on requested collection, no requirements (Art of Asia, Art of China, Art of Japan, Southeast Asian Art, Art of the Islamic World, European Art, American Art, Hawaii and the Pacific,
Contemporary Art)
Museum Experience Program – 70 min tour on Western painting styles + a painting class at the Art Center, (Tu 9:00 AM-12:00 PM)
Ambassador Tours – docent tour combined with 2 Ambassador visits to the classroom for the “museum-in-a box” and an art project
(East Meets West, Hawai‘i and Its People, Art of the Philippines, Animals in Art, Art of the Ancient World, Art of the Pacific, and Roots)
HAATCM campus 9:30 am
Transportation Transformation – new exhibition tour + art project
Art Off the Wall – storyteller + art project
How to begin cross-touring at HAAB and HAATCM
ADULT TOURS
Follow or partner with an experienced docent before touring alone!
Study and prepare well for the tour.
Select a tour online that has a Need and email your request to docent@honoluluacademy.org
TCM Exhibition Tours
Attend the walk through, study, follow, sign up, and then give the tour
FHB Center - Noon, First Friday
Attend the walk-through, study, sign up, and then give the tour
New Exhibition Tours - 10:15 am Tu-Sat @ HAAB for any and all new exhibitions
During Artists of Hawaii and for the duration of the New Contemporary Gallery 27
2 docents can sign up for this tour (1 HAATCM & 1 HAAB docent)
Be at the front entrance before 10 AM
Tour together or divide the group in two for Contemporary art or other galleries
If there are no visitors, walk around the galleries and find people to help for the hour! Visitors will love it!
Sign up where you see New Exhibition Tour:
Need 1 (HAAB)
Need 1 TCM docent - to give HAATCM docents an opportunity,
otherwise HAAB docents will take the slot
Collection Tours – 11:30 am Tu - Sat @ HAAB
Currently alternates between East (T, Th, Sat) & West (Wed, Fri)
Sign up to tour the area of the collection where you feel comfortable
Sign up where you see: Need 1 docent
If visitors should ask for a different area, please show them where to go, but do not hesitate
to tell them that is not currently your touring area if that is the case
Spotlight Tours – 1:30 pm Tu – Sat @ HAAB
A new topic each week; you may suggest topics to Betsy
Topics are booked 3 months out to meet publication deadlines
Sign up for topics you have studied and that you are interested in touring
Tour and Tea - 2:30 pm T, TH and Sun
Weekly themed tours booked 3 months out
Usually one docent does all three tours for the week; you may partner
Suggest and sign up for a theme of your choice with Betsy
May be scheduled for any campus - this would be new at HAATCM
STUDENT TOURS at either campus:
Follow an experienced docent
Partner with an experienced docent
Study the tour information
Attend training session about the tour
*Keep on schedule – arrive on time and stay on time as you move through the galleries