Angel: Hi, I'm Angel.

And today we're at the Toledo Muse Now, Toledo is known as the Glass City, and I'm sure today we can find out why.

So let's get the day Go od morning.

Angel: Hi.

Did you paint it all yourself?

Dennis: I did not.

I am a security guard.

Angel: So what do you do De nnis: I protect the art.

I answer questions from guests wh erever they want to go.

Angel: So if I feel unsa Dennis: Absolutely.

Angel: Okay.

Dennis: Have a fun day.

Angel: Thank you.

Let's go check out the museum.

Dianna: Do you see something that you like?

Angel: Oh my gosh.

I see so much.

I don't know where to st Dianna: Well, the Matisse Apollo has it all.

So where we can start is with colors.

What's your favorite color?

Angel: Red.

Dianna: And you see a lot Angel: Yes, but mostly blue.

Dianna: Mostly blue.

Other colors?

Angel: Orange.

Yellow.

And the only thing is..

I see green, but that's the only green.

There's two different There's a dark green and a light Dianna: What about our lines?

What kind of lines do you see?

Angel: I see a lot of lines, but none of them are the same.

Some are kind of straight.

Some are short.

Some are really long.

And then some are kind of squiggly.

Like they go like this.

Dianna: Well, we have organic lines But you said and we have some hor and some other things that we can talk about when we see this.

What about some shapes?

Angel: Well, they all look like lines coming together to make a shape.

But the biggest shape I see, it looks like a face right in the Dianna: We do.

We So there is a face there.

And.

And then there's some geometric shapes, too.

We have an oval for the Apollo face.

We have some hearts.

Do you see any hearts?

Angel: The hearts make the Like you see during March i How do you know so much about this place and about all the art?

Dianna: Well, I am a docent And the thing about docents is that we like to talk about art, and we like to help people look closely at art.

so.

Angel: So you're like my Google.

Dianna: Kind of!

Angel: Okay.

So is everything here in the museum really old?

Dianna: Not everything.

Because, you now men and women are still creating art.

So we have contemporary works of art here, too.

Angel: What does contemporary mean?

Does that mean new?

Dianna: But if we want to, we can start in the class where we have some ancient antiquities.

Angel: Can you take me?

Dianna: I sure can.

We're going to go up the stairs.

Angel: Okay, Let's go.

Dianna: Okay.

Now, all of this is the classic court and these are some of the oldest arti at the Toledo Museum of Art.

wow.

So what do you notice about her?

Angel: I didn't know it was a her.

Dianna: It is a her and her name is Ta-mit.

wow.

We know that.

Angel: Is that why she's not in here?

Dianna: She doesn't come to life.

She is not a mummy.

But she is the coffin that Ta-mit was pu wow.

Okay.

And notice she has a gre who means everlasting, ever living, rebirth and she is getting ready to go to the afterlife.

Do you see a goddess that looks like she has wings and has got her arms out?

Angel: Yes.

Righ She's protecting Ta-mit till s and there is a picture.

An image of Ta-mit laying on her funeral bed.

wow.

And you see, it's almost like a bird.

That's her spirit, her body going up into the afterlife.

Everything on this coffin case has symbols to help her go from this life to the afterlife.

Angel: So are all of these ones mini sarcophagus or coffins?

Dianna: No, those are Canopic jars.

Because if you go into the afterlife, you need your organs, your inner org So each one of those held your organs so that you would have those things in your afterlife, too.

Angel: So she took her organs and her bird with her.

Did the Egyptians do they put everything in the cof Dianna: Well, not necessarily in the coffin, but in their tombs.

They did.

wow.

And what I like to think thousands of years ago, I wonder I wonder how she used to be like me.

Did she like French fries?

What was her favorite food?

What was her favorite pet?

Did she have brothers and sisters?

Was she a tease or was she shy?

Angel: You know, I read that Egyptians really loved cats.

So maybe she had a cat.

Dianna: Could be, because cats were q And we do have a cat mummy here.

Angel: Can I see it?

Dianna: You cert It's over here in this cas Angel: Okay, let's go.

So where is the mummy?

Where's the cat?

Dianna: Well, the cat is w linen cloth, just like they did with the other mummies.

And it's in the back there.

It's brown.

You can see it does have some ears on it.

And they kind of put a little face on the cat.

It's very small.

It's very small.

But let me tell you, it was one of the first pieces here at of Art.

Mr. an Libbey travele that was one of the first things in this whole museum.

People came all over from the city to see this cat Mummy.

Angel: Well, thank you so much for showing me Apollo and to Tah Mit, but I think I'm ready to see some new stuff.

Seen a lot of old stuff today.

Dianna: Well, I can tell you if you go through that gallery over there, you're g some contemporary works of art, right?

Some where the artists are still living.

Angel: Sounds great.

Bye Dianna.

Dianna Angel: Wow.

How do you think they put this together?

Jason: Well, I, in fact, know how we put this together.

My name's Jason.

Angel: Hi, Jason.

Do you work here?

Is that how I am the installation design manager, and I over the crew of people who hang all the artwork in the museum and who assemble the sculptures you see like this one in front of us here.

Angel: How do you put together a sculpture that's bigger than you?

Jason: Well, it takes a crew of several p Our crew, the pe which is a museum, fancy museum term for the people who get to touch the artwork and put it all together and a piece like this one here weighs a When put together.

This piece by Viola Frey, its ceramic, which a lot of times we think of ceramics as being, you know, plates and dishes that w But in this case, it's a large work of art.

And this arrived in many pieces.

Angel: How do people make ceramics?

What is a ceramic?

Jason: Ceramic is a medium, an art that's dug up from the earth in various forms and then shaped into sculptural forms like you see in front of us here.

And then it's it's heated up in a really hot oven called a kiln, in this case, a very large kiln to handle these large pieces.

And then on and and color is applied and you have beautiful forms in front of us.

Angel: Wow.

That takes a lot of Play to put together someth Indeed.

Angel: Wow.

So did you put this one together, too?

Jason: I did help in putting this together.

This all together.

There's a little over 20 pieces, maybe 25 diffe sections that all get put together.

And as I said, there's a crew of us who worked hard and worked together to lift all of these pieces into place.

Each individual piece is probably about 200 pounds.

So you know about the you know, it takes it takes a few different hands to lift them up.

And also, once we have it all together in one piece and locked in, we bolted all together with screws and bolts, and then we're able to lift it up w once it's all together, because individuals to lift up even a group of people.

Angel: Wow.

Is there any other really b here in the museum?

Jason: There are a lot of As you walk through the museum, you'll see many pieces, you know, from from very large paintings.

The ones behind us here, which take, you know, two or three people to lift up and put into place.

And then there's other very heavy sculpture th And, you know, all of it is put together in similar ways.

We use machines whenever we can to help save our backs and and protect the pieces and lift them as safe as we can.

Angel: Wow.

That was Looking at all of this art makes me want to paint Luckily, the Toledo Museum of Art has a family center where I was able to create my own paintings and crafts.

I had so much fun here.

Anyways, let's go catch up with Diana again to look at some more artwork.

Dianna: Now, I don't want to make you hungry, but I love the works of art that are in this corner.

Angel: It's a lot of food.

Dianna: It is Angel: And I thought all this here where people.

Dianna: No, no.

These are still The artists go to a special way to arrange everything so that they can show just how skillful they are in painting and picturing stuff that's so realistic.

Angel: It looks like there's curtains in the corner on this one, and the lobster looks like it has butter on it.

Dianna: Oh ok!

Dianna: I wonder.

I wonder.

That's and that's what they were showing us.

Was that skillful.

They are to make something No w, you wanted to take some flowers home.

What do you think about those flowers?

Angel: I think they're nice.

I think they're pretty.

Maybe one is a ros Dianna: Okay.

Yo Angel: Some tulips.

Maybe lilies Dianna: One of the things that I wanted you to noti and it's just new to me, and you never know when you come to the museum is that they have a new co I have not seen this before.

Angel: Wow!

Dianna: That is so cool.

Nothing stays the same in the museum.

Everything changes.

We get new things all Angel: From all new artists too?

Dianna: New artists.

Yes, Dianna: What do you think about this portrait?

It's one of our biggest ones.

Angel: It's a very big frame for a ve Dianna: It's true.

It's true.

Lord Amherst was pretty famous in Engla and he's pretty famous here at the time because some people think that his foot moves as it walks by.

Angel: Really?

Well, how can you tell?

Dianna: Try it.

Let's walk by Angel: Okay.

Angel: Wow.

It really does f Dianna: So I hope you liked Lord Amherst.

Angel: I've seen so much cool stuff at the museum today I did notice some more portraits in the court here.

Angel: I see a pretty lady in the corner.

Who is that?

Dianna: That's Mrs. Libbey Her and her husband were the fou They thought it was very important that the city of Toledo and al would have a museum to come and be educated.

And it's accessible for everybody, even young children.

Angel: Wow.

What abo Come anyway, because you're going to see works of art from all different countries here.

Angel: The inside of the museum was so fun.

There's so much cool art inside.

Now, Toledo is known as the Glass City, and we're here at the Glass pavilion to find out why.

Let's check it out.

Kacey Hi.

Angel: Hi.

Are It#s really hot in here to be an artist.

Kacey: I am an artist, a I am a glass artist.

My name is Kacey McCreery.

Hi.

Nice to meet.

Angel: You.

Nice to meet you.

This is a big glass room, and everything i But these aren't see-through.

So what is all o Kacey: This is our glassblowing and we call it a hot shop for obvious reasons.

Right?

They feel.

Feel the h Angel: So being a glass artist doesn't mean you paint on the Or do you just make it and make the shape Kacey: We blow glass.

We blow hot glass there.

There are techniques you can d but that's not one that I do very often.

Angel: You're a special artist.

All this Kacey: One really amazing thing about this building is that we're surrounded by a collection of that spans from over 5000 years ago, up until very recently.

Angel: So how hot are these ovens?

Kacey: Our ovens are 2150 degrees.

So obviously, that's hot.

But for perspective, it's about hotter than lava flowing out of a volcano.

So really, really hot.

my goodness.

Angel: Are you making spooky season?

Kacey: Yes, of c We make a lot of glass pumpkins here I just made a pumpkin, so I start by getting glass out of our furnace.

Our furnace holds about 700 pounds of molten glass.

It's sort of like a big bathtub full of molten glass.

So I gather it up onto a stainless steel pipe, and then I start to blow and expand it to make it larger.

I add color by rolling it into frit, and that is broken chunks of colored glass, which is made by adding different metals and different elements to clear glass, and Angel: How do you get your glass to be so big?

Like, Kacey: So when I'm blowing into the end of the blow pipe, it's a lot like blowing out bubble gum.

The harder I So when you're blowing up bubble gum, you can blow too hard an So the same as with glass.

If you blow too hard wa lls will get too thin and it can break and Just like bubble gum.

Hot, hot bubble gu Angel: Does that happen Kacey: Not too often.

Every once in a whil Maybe when you're a beginner, that Angel: Wow.

Who knew that was how you make gl I have had so much fun today.

The Toledo Museum of Art is an amazing place to visit.

There is so much to see and so many things to do.

I can't wait to come back.

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