The first place I went, as mentioned in the previous post was Ann Arbor. Where the places were in Ann Arbor was awesome, it was cute with a lot of everything which was completely accessible by walking. Plus we chose a warm sunny day to go which was perfect. There was some tile and graffiti art which you can see in the pictures below. Now I guess I'll just tell you about each venue we explored
1. Gallery Project-When we went they had the show “Politics of Fear” going on. A lot of the art work was really interesting, but a lot of it was not really to my taste, and a couple of the things in my opinion weren’t really all that good. However, there was one thing I really found interesting there was a teacher/painter, Lynn Galbreath, from Oakland University that did a piece of work on the theory which she was teaching to her class about this weird circle that you can be watched from anywhere and not know it. Sorry I can't remember the name, pretty sure it starts with a P though...
2. Ann Arbor Art Center-This place serves three purposes, a classroom for people to learn about things like ceramics which they were doing when we went there, a store which has amazing glass art, like pendants and spheres which were amazing. They also had a gallery, which, when we went, the show really was not nearly as good as the store downstairs.
3. Work: Ann Arbor-This was like the Gallery project which had various pieces but, none were really to my taste at their current exhibition at the time. But I thought it was interesting that it often functions as an interstate exchange with a school from Minnesota, which is nice because then you spread yourself out of your area.
4. Michigan Museum of Art-This place looked so massive from the start, and it had a variety of historical art and contemporary art. The historical art was pretty interesting across the board. They also had a contemporary section with some cool stuff, like the non Dali painting as I call it (it looked like it could have been), but then there was also the huge canvas which was one color and a barely visible thin line on the left side which really??? Whatever. But the other two things that I really like was the sculpture created from guns and gun parts which looked fantastic. Lastly they had a table screen that you hovered your hand over it and could move things around and select things like you would with a mouse on a desktop. Very Iron Man 2, therefore I have named it Jarvis! Picture below!!!
Gallery Project- Can't remember the Artist but this piece made me laugh!
Gallery Project-This was probably my favorite piece in the gallery which I looked at.
Gallery Project-This piece was the most amusing look closely and read everything.
Gallery Project-Second half of the above picture, sorry it didn't come out as cleanly.
Gallery Project-Don't throw any supplies like this away do a piece like this!!!
Gallery Project-This is part of the work from the Wayne State teacher I mentioned above the circle thing is what I was talking about. Even if I don't have the name at least I have the picture for you.
Gallery Project-In the basement they had an eerie couple pieces, much like the basement. Here's one
Some art on the walls of the buildings in Ann Arbor
Outside my gallery of choice.
Ann Arbor Art Center-The current exhibition floor
Ann Arbor Art Center-Another view of the exhibition
Ann Arbor Art Center-My parents by one of the pieces (yes the whole thing was a family trip!)
Ann Arbor Art Center-Me by another piece
More building art. Kind of looks like a lamb or a cow, actually both
Some mosaic work on another building
Work-Outside the building
Work-Still outside but of some of the stuff inside.
Work-I though it would be cool to take pictures of work outside the gallery instead of inside...so I did
Work-another piece from the outside, a better view in my opinion.
I think this was like a game center or something, I just thought it was a cool entrance.
Outside the U of M Art Museum
Still outside the U of M Art Museum
U of M Art Museum-Some older American/European paintings.
U of M Art Museum-Yet another, but I really liked this one.
U of M Art Museum-I liked this one too.
U of M Art Museum-A really cool door window thing.
U of M Art Museum-Me by that cool door window thing.
U of M Art Museum-One of the many hidden drawers in the museum.
U of M Art Museum-Some contemporary art which I liked, yet didn't think it deserved to be in a museum.
U of M Art Museum-Didn't like and think that these to belong even less, especially the tan one, you can't see but there is a thin messy light blue line along the left side.
I thought this was ironic since I was seeing a lot I thought was juvenile or ridiculous art, like the previous things.
U of M Art Museum-It's a old Asian dog sculpture. Dog was all I needed!
U of M Art Museum-I thought this was Salvador Dali painting, but it wasn't.
U of M Art Museum-Back to the American/European section of a pretty landscape.
U of M Art Museum-Some African walking sticks
U of M Art Museum-Another view of them
U of M Art Museum-My favorite one
U of M Art Museum-As I promised by mother and JARVIS!!!
Outside again, and another view of this sculpture I liked!
Just a cool building in Ann Arbor, in the Medieval style I like so much.
Another building I liked in the other style I love (Greek)
Outside a sports bar, can you tell?
Mosaics on the parking garage wall where we parked.
This is the page from my sketch book describing work as well as a sketch of one of the pieces I saw.
This concludes the Ann Arbor portion of this program.
