WEEKLY STAFF NEWS | 6.29.2020
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Next Phase of Reopening Begins Soon
Getty will soon be moving into Phase 2b of reopening, as we prepare to welcome visitors back to the Getty Villa and Getty Center in August. The majority of employees directly involved in preparing for and supporting museum visitors will return to both sites beginning July 20. If you need clarification about your assignment or location, please contact your supervisor. Getty is preparing to reopen the museums to the public in phases, beginning at the Getty Villa in early August and at the Getty Center in late August. Visitation will be by timed reservation and at a reduced capacity to ensure social distancing, with many preparations being made to keep both employees and visitors safe.
Working from Home Business Expenses
Getty has updated and revised the guide to business expenses and business use of personal devices, for staff working from home. Please see attached for details and instructions.
Indoor Air Quality and Safety
As staff return to work on site, many have asked about the quality of the air circulating in the buildings. The Getty was carefully designed to ensure good indoor air quality for occupants and the collections. Air handling units that provide conditioned air to spaces deliver 20% outside air mixed with return air. Some areas, like laboratories, deliver an even higher percentage. This helps dilute pollutants, and significantly exceeds building code standards. In addition, air passes through multiple filters, further reducing particulates, again far beyond building code standards. The high-quality filters are changed frequently and the air handling units are maintained regularly by Getty Engineering to ensure safe and proper conditioned air is delivered to all Getty spaces.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In the last few weeks, Getty staff have been meeting—and listening—to help Getty move forward on diversity, equity, and inclusion. To join the ongoing conversation, please send your thoughts and ideas to GettyDEICouncil@getty.edu.
Free Workout Classes at Home
Since the Fitness Center remains closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Getty is partnering with The Fitness Center and Health Fitness to provide free access to Wellbeats, a home fitness website and app where you can participate in more than 500 classes including yoga, HIIT, strength training, cycling, running/walking, mindfulness, office breaks, and recovery, as well as take nutrition courses and challenge yourself in incentive programs. Wellbeats is an easy-to-use, on-demand fitness platform to help you feel happier, healthier, and stronger. You will receive an email from Wellbeats on July 1 with information on how to enroll and get started on your own personal fitness journey. Staff without Getty email will receive a letter in the mail with instructions about how to join. See the attached welcome brochure or contact fitnesscenter@getty.edu for more information.
NEWS
Digital Share from Home Postponed
With the Museum reopening and competing priorities, we are postponing Digital Share to mid-October to give everyone more time to gather ideas. Registration will remain open until early September. Please sign up to share.
Helping the Homeless
Getty is partnering with Midnight Mission and Bon Appetit to provide meals to some of the region’s neediest residents this summer. Normally, Bon Appetit staffers would be busy serving meals to thousands of staff and visitors at the Villa and Center each day. With relatively few folks on site, Bon Appetit staff will be preparing and packaging 1,000 meals three days a week in July and August for the Midnight Mission, a secular non-profit providing services to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, Orange County, and the South Bay. Midnight Mission provides shelter and a net of resources and support services including 12-step recovery, family living, job training, education, emergency services, and workforce development programs to help homeless individuals achieve and maintain healthy, productive lives.
EVENTS
Podcast: Globalization and the Year 1000
In the year 1000 CE, complex trade networks were taking shape, stimulating unprecedented cultural interactions. The Vikings reached the shores of North America, trade routes connected China with Europe and Africa, and in the Americas, cities like Chichén Itzá underwent explosive growth that attracted people and goods from afar. These are just a few of the world-changing phenomena of this transformative era. In this episode of the Art + Ideas podcast, Valerie Hansen explores these early economic and cultural exchanges and their long-term impact in her new book The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began, which originated as a college course co-taught with Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. In the podcast, Hansen and Miller discuss the state of the world around the year 1000.
Reflections on Illuminated Manuscripts
Curators from the Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute share short meditations on works of art they’re thinking about right now in a new weekly feature on the Art + Ideas podcast. This week, curator Bryan Keene sees a common motif from illuminated manuscripts in a paper chain craft that he makes with his children. Listen to Bryan’s reflections, and look for new recordings every Tuesday.
Julius Shulman and the 1970s Domestic Interior
Architecture photographer Julius Shulman shot for many of the leading modernist architects of the 1970s, including Rudolph Schindler, Raphael Soriano, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Painstakingly composed and carefully staged, Shulman’s photographs are typically noted for their celebration of the crisp forms, sober lines, and unadorned materials that characterized modernist architecture in Southern California. However, his subject matter was more diverse than this narrative lets on. On the Iris, architecture historian and curator Gary Riichirō Fox reveals how a selection of photographs from the Julius Shulman Papers at Getty Research Institute tells the story of another Shulman.
STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Creativity begins at Home
While spending more time at home, staff has discovered unique ways to entertain themselves and give back to their communities. To share how you’ve been passing the time, email internalcommunications@getty.edu.
- Lee Rubinstein, School Gallery Docent: “I'm normally a very active person, so the quarantine potentially could have seen me bouncing off the walls. But to stave off the problem, I've been taking classes with free online learning programs through Open University out of the UK. Such courses as Dutch Painting of the Golden Age, Art in Renaissance Venice, and Art and Visual Culture: Medieval to Modern have helped keep me sane. I'm also reading a great deal and watching documentaries like the Exhibition of Screen series through kanopy.com, free from the Los Angeles Public Library. I'm also taking a summer education seminar offered through the National Gallery of Art in a couple of weeks. Keeping connected via the Education Department's Zoom classes and my regular weekly Zoom meeting with my shift day are critical to keeping connected.”
- Donna Mercer, School Tours Docent: “I really miss the students during quarantine. It is fun, however, to keep up with my Getty friends via Zoom. I am also enjoying making art and reading during this at-home time. The British Royal Academy posted a list of books about artists, and I've been able to download quite a few from the LA Library to my Kindle. And I've been doing a weekly art exchange with my sister who lives in Virginia, with each of us choosing and rendering an image of a "family treasure"—six done and two to go! We both chose to use printmaking as our medium, which is pretty challenging to design, cut, and print new plates for each treasure. I'm also enjoying participating on the Getty Underground planning committee—registration is open for this first virtual exhibit until July 24!”
- Loren Vincent, Woodworker, Preparations Department: “My wife and I decided to pay it forward with some of our stimulus money by hiring our friends’ street taco catering business. This was their first job in three months due to the shutdown. They were quite happy to have the work. We had them do an appreciation lunch for our local law enforcement (Lakewood Sherriff’s Dept.). Law enforcement has had a real tough go the last three months and we felt they needed and deserved this show of support.”
Anniversaries This Week
Five Years
- Kimberly Uyttewaal, Development
- Nathaniel Deines, Collection & Content Management System, Getty Digital
20 Years
- Katherine Arroyo, Procurement and Contract Services, Finance
25 Years
- Aimee Calfin, Library Services, GRI
Comings and Goings
See how the Getty community is changing—and welcome new co-workers.
From InternalCommunications | internalcommunications@getty.edu
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