#22...Gaining Inspiration..

As I prepared to begin another school year, nice even year 22,  I had the total pleasure of taking off to NYC for a day trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I went with my clever and intrepid studio art department friends! 

   It was awesome to see the work of Diane Arbus: In The Beginning in the new Met Breuer as well as the Thoughts Left Unfinished a thorough and beautiful exhibition of artwork that remain unfinished by their makers beginning from the Renaissance to now.

Our studio art department has grown this year! We are so lucky to have four in our little department!

To celebrate we headed down to Richmond to enjoy the Kehinde Wiley A New Republic as well as the Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott exhibitions.

If these short inspirational jaunts are any indication, it is destined to be fabulous school year!

On the road again...Baltimore

2016 OHS Art Students

The best way to usher in Spring, even if there is one last tease of snow, is to get out and experience new ideas! 

There was much inspiration to be found at the American Visionary Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art in Charm City! It was a brisk day full of visual delicacies! 

Cosmic Egg

We toured the Visionary Art Museum exhibition celebrating it's 20 years: Big Hope! The exhibition focuses on Hope and Community. These are ideas we have been looking at all year as an Art Department in our classes!
The students also participated in a workshop. They looked at the work of  Gregory Warmack, Mr. Imagination,  and his amazing portraits created from everyday upcycled objects. 

We also toured the Baltimore Museum of Art. Their featured exhibition was Imagining Home.  We explored a variety of perceptions of home and belonging. 

 There were a plethora of meaningful conversations and observations!