Busy, busy, busy
Wow! I've had a busy three weeks? I've done so much I don't know where to began. I wish I had been taking time out to blog about all the things I've been doing because I could have gotten a lot of posts up by now. But mostly I've been spending my time online reading HP/RW fics, they're my OTP for the moment :o)
I wanted to post what I've been up to in order but I just had to post about this day first.
April 19th we went into Fort Worth for the day. My daughter received an award from the area PTA because they sent in her Reflections entry to state! They had it at the Modern Museum and gave us free entry. The Modern is a wonderful museum and I had managed to drag my husband out there when they were free this past fall and he enjoyed it so he was willing to go again. The main exhibit was Martin Puryear who has a permanent installation in the museum my husband loved called Ladder for Booker T. Washington. It was an interesting sculptural exhibit mostly concerning space. They had a table set up at the entrance with these neat sketchbooks with different kinds of paper in them and pencils. Also on display were three awesome paintings by Kehinde Wiley. They were amazing in person but I think mostly a person who understands or at least has witnessed Black America would see a lot of what was going on in those paintings. Fortunately the museum had printed these lovely booklets with explanations and photos of the works. The awards ceremony was nice and then we went outside to the Kimbell ground to have a picnic snack, a break, feed the squirrels and take some pictures.
The Kimbell, as well as the Modern, is a museum that is as much a work of art as the art it holds. So I took some black and white photos. These are my first but I just love the way they turned out and had to share them.
With such great subjects and weather, it's hard not to take a good picture.
Then we went to the Main Street Fort Worth Arts festival. It was packed with people and amazing artists. We saw so many gorgeous things its hard to even take it all in. So mostly what I came out with was a feeling of trends. Glass is , of course, always beautiful and colorful and fun and funky. Collage is very popular and can truly be turned into "art". Metal can be formed into such amazing things. Photography and digital manipulation of photos was all over the place, but not my idea of art I'd like to spend a fortune on. Jewelry artists are wonderfully unique. And overall, I don't have enough money to buy any of it but fortunately inspiration is free. And I know I could buy some similar pieces of photography online for a fraction of the cost, if I leaned that way. It really inspired me to start quilting again and maybe start painting my drab walls and get some color into my life.
So that was one day out of a busy 3 weeks. I hope to post more soon now that it looks like things are slowing down a little bit. There will soon be end of school award ceremonies and such.
I wanted to post what I've been up to in order but I just had to post about this day first.
April 19th we went into Fort Worth for the day. My daughter received an award from the area PTA because they sent in her Reflections entry to state! They had it at the Modern Museum and gave us free entry. The Modern is a wonderful museum and I had managed to drag my husband out there when they were free this past fall and he enjoyed it so he was willing to go again. The main exhibit was Martin Puryear who has a permanent installation in the museum my husband loved called Ladder for Booker T. Washington. It was an interesting sculptural exhibit mostly concerning space. They had a table set up at the entrance with these neat sketchbooks with different kinds of paper in them and pencils. Also on display were three awesome paintings by Kehinde Wiley. They were amazing in person but I think mostly a person who understands or at least has witnessed Black America would see a lot of what was going on in those paintings. Fortunately the museum had printed these lovely booklets with explanations and photos of the works. The awards ceremony was nice and then we went outside to the Kimbell ground to have a picnic snack, a break, feed the squirrels and take some pictures.
The Kimbell, as well as the Modern, is a museum that is as much a work of art as the art it holds. So I took some black and white photos. These are my first but I just love the way they turned out and had to share them.
With such great subjects and weather, it's hard not to take a good picture.
Then we went to the Main Street Fort Worth Arts festival. It was packed with people and amazing artists. We saw so many gorgeous things its hard to even take it all in. So mostly what I came out with was a feeling of trends. Glass is , of course, always beautiful and colorful and fun and funky. Collage is very popular and can truly be turned into "art". Metal can be formed into such amazing things. Photography and digital manipulation of photos was all over the place, but not my idea of art I'd like to spend a fortune on. Jewelry artists are wonderfully unique. And overall, I don't have enough money to buy any of it but fortunately inspiration is free. And I know I could buy some similar pieces of photography online for a fraction of the cost, if I leaned that way. It really inspired me to start quilting again and maybe start painting my drab walls and get some color into my life.
So that was one day out of a busy 3 weeks. I hope to post more soon now that it looks like things are slowing down a little bit. There will soon be end of school award ceremonies and such.