AERI Institute 2009

There will be two options for field trips on Wednesday, July 8, 2009: a tour of the Getty Center or a coordinated tour of multiple ethnic and community archives (see below) in the Los Angeles area. Both groups will reconvene for dinner Wednesday evening at the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum. There is an additional fee of $35.00 to participate in the tours and the dinner. The dinner is not available for separate registration and the fee covers both events.

Getty Center Tour

The Getty tour will take place at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, not the Getty Villa. It will include a tour of the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and time to explore the exhibits, gardens, and grounds on your own.

An orientation video to the Getty is available here. An online guide to the works held by the Getty is available at Explore Art.

The following current exhibits will still be on display during our visit:

• La Roldana’s Saint Gines: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture
• Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance
• Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling
• Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
• Temptation and Salvation: The Psalms of King David

Future exhibits that will be installed prior to the field trip are listed below. Descriptions are available here.

• Foundry to Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture
• Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
• In Focus: Making A Scene

Ethnic and Community Archives Tour

Participants will get a chance to tour the Braun Research Library, The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, and the Southern California Library. The group will stop for lunch at the iconic Clifton’s Cafeteria.

The Braun Research Library supports the activities of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and contains materials pertaining to Native Americans and Mexican-Americans. It has photograph, manuscript, and audio collections.

The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the world’s largest research library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,and Transgendered heritage and concerns. Its collections include collections include manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, film and audio, and ephemera.

The Southern California Library is a community library dedicated to documenting and preserving the histories of communities in struggle for justice.  The collections include manuscripts, photographs, film and audio, ephemera, and posters.

Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum

Tour participants will have a special opportunity to see the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum, which has not yet opened to the public (anticipated opening in early 2010).

The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum (MCLM) maintains the largest and most academically substantial independently held collection of rare and out-of-print books, documents, films, music, photographs and memorabilia on African American history and culture in the United States. MCLM’s primary goal is to make the collection available to the public as a cultural compass to a more complete view of American history.

Our Founder, Mayme Agnew Clayton, Ph.D., (1923 – 2006) assembled the collection over a 40-year period to ensure that “children would know that black people have done great things.”

A video about the collection is available here.

For questions or special dietary requests, please contact Josh Sternfeld (aeri@gseis.ucla.edu).