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Welcome!
We hope you enjoy the reviews, thoughts, and reflections we have written of the five museums we visited during Innovation Academy Charter School's 2012 Endersession, Museums of Massachusetts.
Teacher: Mr. Pelham Students:Melissa Jedry, Alisa Lee, Maddie Saint Jeane, Shelby Branam
Day 1: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Day 2: Institute of Contemporary Art
Day 3: Worcester Art Museum
Day 4: deCordova Museum & Sculpture Park
Day 5: Danforth Museum of American Art
"Really, Timothy!?:" Top 25 Inside Jokes from the Week
1. "Really Timothy?!" - teacher yelling at small child at deCordova
2. Au Bon Pan being baffled by Mr. Pelham asking for no chicken on a wrap. 3. Melissa’s constantly telling negative stories about her dad despite the fact that he seems very nice 4. Alisa being WAY too loud all the time. 5. Maddie miss-reading the word "2000" and saying "Zooo"
6. Melissa is secretly an old woman that complains a lot 7. Mr. Pelham only drinks water. Fact. Deal with it. 8. Take 3 steps back 9. "What is this, air rice?" - Melissa complaining about her father's cooking 10. Mr pelham looking the same in a picture of him at the Worcester Art Museum from when he took part in Art All State in high school 11. Mr. Pelham keeps a merMAN in his trunk. Fact. Dont hate. 12. Mr. Pelham cant walk and breathe at the same time. Not a fact. 13. Shelby failing to climb a tree and owing us 100 dollars. Seriously, pay up. 14. Apparently Maddie said "the God’s are arising" about a painting. Its not funny. 15. Students doing performance art at the deCordova while Mr. Pelham makes phone calls and tries to forget he is at work. 16. Shelby is still trying to see the Alex Katz show at the MFA. Seriously. Right now. 17. Maddie is racist against people from England. 18. "A black chick dumped me" read a quote on a sculpture 19. Melissa does not use napkins. Gross, right?
20. Melissa wants to drill holes in people's heads cause she loves Jeffrey Dahmer 21. Maddie is riffraff. Fact. 22. Alisa still refuses to write about the worcester art museum. Rude. 23. When maddie couldnt subtract 1 from 5. True story. 24. Mr Pelham’s remix of m83. The cd was just dirty. I fixed it.
25. Melissa loves to play boring video games where she farms and joins a cult.
Day 5: Shelby's review of Danforth Museum
Day 5: Alisa's review of Danforth Museum
On Friday, we went to the Danforth Museum and I enjoyed the experience. Even though there are not much art pieces in this museum, we got to see the “Behind the scenes” of entering art to a museum and how the museum communicate with artist who lives far away. The guide told us that they do this digitally meaning artist would take pictures of their art piece and send them to the person who is choosing the art pieces. If an artist’s piece is chosen, they would mail it to the museum to have it set up. We also got to an art school and the what the rooms look like. We went into a dark room, a loom room, and a room just for kilns. We did see some art pieces in the museum and lots of the acrylic and oil paintings stood out to me. I really liked children’s room where the gallery showed artist’s work that are mainly directed towards children. All of the drawings and paintings are on cardboard trees and they were all colorful and had cartoons. I was told that these drawings and paintings were all included in children’s books. There is nothing I dislike about this museum except the fact that it should be expanded.
Day 5: Melissa's review of Danforth Museum
At the Danforth we were able to get a tour of some different parts of the building. We saw some storage space, a dark room, the classrooms, and the basement where they made pottery. We got a better idea of what it's like to run a museum. Our tour guide told us about part of the process that happens when museums pick out pieces of work and how they choose to arrange them. I thought it was interesting to hear about that process. Though it was small, the Danforth had a few good pieces of art. One of my favorites was a collection of wooden trees that were painted by children's illustrators. I thought those were cute and well done. I also enjoyed a textile sculpture that was painted with ink so that the fabric resembled rocks. I also enjoyed some of the photography and paintings that were up. My favorite photographs were of these fish and the coloring was really nice.
Day 5: Maddie's review of Danforth Museum
The Danforth museum was a very small one, but they had a lot of different art. I thought it was cool how almost every picture, painting, etc., was done by a different artist. But, they all related to one another and had similar themes. One of my favorite pictures was done by the artist Pelle Cass and was called Quincy Market. I like that picture because of how the people walking match the shapes of the bricks on the patio. It looks as if it was planned that way or something. I don’t know if it was or not but I think it’d be more cool if it wasn’t. I think it’d be cooler that way because then it shows how maybe people tend to walk along the patterns in the ground or something like that. This picture also related to many others in the room with the theme of geometric shapes. There were a lot of other cool pictures along with this one, but this one struck my eye a little more than the others.
Day 4: Alisa's review of deCordova Museum
We went to the deCordova on Thursday. This was my favorite museum out of the other museums we went to because we could actually touch some of the art. This museum had many sculptures, photos, and videos. There was this exhibit that only showed the works by Gary Webb and I liked how he used materials including steel, aluminum, glass, mirror, plastic, brass, wood, brick, spray paint, fabrics, and assorted found objects. I liked how his art is colorful, eye-catching, and fun. The sculpture that stood out to me the most was his piece called “Miami Poo Pipe.” The name of the sculpture already got my attention but since part of it was made out of heat-changing paint made it even cooler. I also like some of the photos that were shown in the museum. There were also some sculptures that were not interesting at all and they were the ones that stood outside of the museum. I find them not interesting because they either did not had lots of detail, were not colorful, or did not make sense. For an example, there was this sculpture called “Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories” and it only showed a door and other stones.
Day 4: Shelby's review of deCordova Museum
Day 4: Melissa's review of deCordova Museum
So far the DeCordova was the most entertaining museum. They had a lot of fun and playful pieces. My favorite piece was the sculpture called "Capturing Resonance". I loved the way it incorporated sound motion and visuals together. It really played with your senses. I also liked some of the photography that was on display. The indoor sculptures by Gary Webb were fun to look at. Especially the ones with tinted mirrors. Walking through the sculpture garden was enjoyable. Most sculptures I didn't enjoy but some were really good. I particularly enjoyed the sculpture that you could play music on called "The Musical Fence", the one of the car that plays classical music called "Requiem For The 0th Century", and the one of a windmill with funny things written on it called "The Merry-Go-Round of Hidden Agendas".
Day 4: Maddie's review of deCordova Museum
It was a lovely Thursday afternoon visiting the deCordova museum. This was my favorite museum out of all them so far. The pieces they had were more fun and I liked the fact that they had a bunch of sculptures outside. Since it was a nice day out, I enjoyed walking along the paths and not being stuck inside the whole time. One of my favorite pieces was indoors though. It was called Capturing Resonance by Soo Sunny Park and Spencer Topel. It was on the ceiling and every time you walked below it, it would start to make noises. At first it sounded like a bee hive and sometimes it would make high pitch noises as well. The whole thing would shake a bit because of the vibrations traveling through it. It’s my favorite because it’s exciting to walk through and also looks really cool with the light from outside reflecting off the panels. Out of all the other sculptures it was also the most entertaining. I could’ve stayed there all day and kept walking by it so that it would make the noise.
Day 3: Melissa's review of Worcester Art Museum
The WAM wasn't my favorite museum but there were some pieces that were good. At the WAM, there was an exhibition by Carrie Moyer called Interstellar. My favorite piece in that exhibition is "Into the Woods". I loved just about every photograph put up that was taken by Ron Rosenstock. His black and white photography is beautiful and captures the light in a way I haven't seen often. In their 20th century art collection there were a few pieces in the portrait section that I enjoyed but overall I was unimpressed with the art they had on display. Another thing that left me unimpressed was the amount of oil paintings on display, after a while it gets repetitive so I feel like they should create more exhibitions in some of the places with all those paintings.
Day 3: Shelby's review of Worcester Art Museum
Day 3: Maddie's review of Worcester Art Museum
The Worcester Art Museum on Wednesday was bigger than I thought it would be. They had a pretty good variety in the artwork too. My favorite thing out of everything I saw was by an artist named Ron Rosenstock. He had a whole room and hallway filled with photographs that he took. I liked them a lot because of how they are all in black and white. He also has this certain style where he takes the picture at a certain angle and the lighting always seems to be perfect. All of his pictures look really dramatic and attract attention. I really liked looking at them because of that. The museum had a lot of great art as well, but my favorite thing was looking at the photographs by Ron Rosenstock.
Day 2: Melissa's review of Institute of Contemporary Art
The ICA is the museum I was most impressed with. Contemporary Art is my favorite century of art so I found many pieces that I enjoyed there. One of my favorite pieces at the ICA was the picture of a bird with a blue sky behind it. I particularly liked this piece because the picture was of a regular pigeon instead of some fancier bird like an eagle and the blue sky was actually just an indoor blue background. I also liked Rineke Dijkstra photographs of Almerisa where she took photos periodically throughout the girls life to see the changes. I also liked Ray Navarro's piece equipped where he had three pictures of devices for the disabled with funny phrases under them.
Day 2: Shelby's review of Institute of Contemporary Art
The ICA had a lot less to offer than the MFA, which was good for me because I take forever in museums. A lot of work by Charline von Heyl was on display, and though I didn’t like her collages so much, her paintings were generally beautiful and visually stimulating. One of them made me think that I was looking at the back of a painting and that the front of it was facing the canvas. My favorite of hers, though, was Solo Dolo.
Normally I’m not really into photography, but one photo really stood out to me above the rest. It was part of Philip-Lorca Dicorcia’s series Hustler, a series where he takes photos of male prostitutes in staged places and positions, and pays them for the shot the amount they would normally charge for other services. The man in the picture looks almost sad, and if not for the description, you would not have known he was a male prostitute. The series does a fantastic job of humanizing the models, giving the viewer empathy where any other way would be sympathy.
Day 2: Alisa's review of Institute of Contemporary Art
On Tuesday, we went to the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The museum was not as big as the MFA and this means that we saw all of the contemporary art pieces. The museum itself looked amazing. There was an ocean-view in the back and it had a media center where there was touch screen computers. The media room was also cozzy which made everything relaxing. I liked most of the art in this museum but the one that stood out to me the most was a cube/box made out of straight pins. The surprising thing about this is that not only is it made out of straight pins but the artist managed to do this without using glue. I also liked the art piece swoon composed. It was huge and we also saw the videos of her crew making it. Her art piece was very detailed and intricate. She also included a 400 pound bamboo sculpture which was hanged from the ceiling. My least favorite piece would be the one where an artist just takes a picture of a person’s face. I thought that it shouldn’t be in an art gallery because it was set in a way that it seemed like an ordinary portrait of someone. Overall, I thought this museum contain different styles of contemporary art which I enjoyed.
Day 2: Maddie's review of Institute of Contemporary Art
On Tuesday we went to the ICA. There was a lot more work that I didn’t like compared to the work that I did. A lot of the work I didn’t like was by the artist Charline von Heyl. I couldn’t understand it nor did I like the way they looked therefore I didn’t like any of her pieces. There were some wicked cool pieces though. For example, a cube made entirely of pins just holding themselves together. And pieces of wood from a crime scene suspended from the ceiling at different lengths. One of the things I enjoyed the most was being able to watch a short film on how the ICA building was made and the thought process that went into building it. Architecture is also art, and you can see how that applies really easily in the building. I liked how because it’s right on the harbor, the architects in charge of designing the building took advantage of that and really wanted the water to be a big part of the design as well as making the building look contemporary and be able to keep looking contemporary for the years to come. So, not only did I enjoy some of the work displayed at the ICA but also the ICA building itself.