Sunday at the galleries
Dad and I visited the Walker Art Museum before he left town today. After doing our best to appreciate some of the more controversial exhibitions (namely, Midnight Party (an investigation of our dreams and nightmares through art), we were about to make a break for the gift shop when a gallery on graphics caught our eye. We decided we better check it out as we both like graphic art and I recently learned that "op" (as in op-art) is a word all by itself (thank you scrabble). The exhibition was hands-on, relevant, and a reminder of all the inventive art that digital media has exposed to audiences. So cool! I jotted down a bunch of ideas for my classroom. Here is one video that I've seen before but could always see again: I also really liked Doyle's Identity Guidelines. He created a standard self. Here, he is showing two variations on his standard outfit. As a ninth grade English teacher, we talk a