International Museum of Art & Science - Armando Garcia, Week 4

    



     My week started with packing some bags for the back-to-school event. The bags would be given out to kids and were filled with stickers and had a bracelet activity. After I was done with the bags, my supervisor had me shadow her at a meeting with the other department heads about the next phase of the museum. I do not know how much I can actually talk about, but the meeting involved new exhibits, activities, and redesigning some of the spaces in the museum. After the meeting, I spent the remainder of the day organizing the library. I found books that were about foraging and identifying edible and medicinal plants in North America and they let me keep them along with some other books I thought were interesting.

 














my new books




I started reseraching tapetes de areña or sand rugs during Dia de Los Muertos. In Oaxaca, artists make a variety of tapetes with some depicting religious figures like the Virgen de Guadalupe or with dancing calacas and cempasuchil flowers. Some stories say the tapetes are made so that the souls of the dead have a place to rest. Looking through Facebook groups and old newspapers, I found some artists in the valley that do tapetes. I hope that they are able to participate in the Dia de Los Muertos event to show off tapetes de areña to our community.


   An example of tapetes de areña



The museum debuted a new art exhibit during my last week. The collection is called Abstractions by Anne Marchand. The artist was inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope photographs and used different materials to show off the color present in the universe. I got to attend the soft opening of the gallery the day before and there was a surprising amount of people that were talking about what they saw in the paintings and how they could tell how she was inspired. I didn’t know exactly what they were talking about, but the colors and patterns were very nice.


 Abstractions by Anne Marchand. 

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