VOTE

I am from WI I would be remiss if I did not do something today about voting since we are having our first recall vote in our state ever today. I have a strong opinion about that but am not going to share it here but I am awed by the process of voting today, and it is not just because I got a standing ovation and a drum roll from the poll workers for being number 1000 in my district but that was outstanding. The idea of the peoples voice made this piece stand out to me. it is not a famous artist but a group of teenagers that made it. I love that it is all it is supposed to be no taint of corruption no jaded views on the world yet just what voting should be
http://www.kidsvotingguilford.org/downloads/2011ArtContestWinners.pdf

MAke way for the ducklings.

I love sculptures like this so tangible so whimsical. This one is located in Boston and was made by Nancy Schon it is called "Make way for the Ducklings" This to me is adorable and possibly a tripping risk. I love the idea though of little sculptures like this around a park. Bring art to real life involves children and the imagination. what do you think about it?

What an artist and what a subject!

I normally do not look much at the artist or the things about the art I post before I write about it but I was so struck by this statue and the realization that there are too few representations like it when the books of bravery and outstanding acts of African American people is large and long. I was reading about the artist and admire both his skill and his life's work goals I hope you find Gabriel Koren from Hungary as interesting as I have in learning about him. This statue is Prudence Crandall with student.

Normally I would write here what is see in this piece but I will mix in what I know about this as I go. I kept finding this on a kids page then I found out why Children lobbied to have it made sent in pennies to collect for it. Prudence was a remarkable women and I would be dishonoring to her name and legacy if I did not just tell her story here. She was a Quaker school teacher that admitted a black girl into her class room in 1832, a revolutionary act. This act lead to the community removing their white children from the school. So she closed the teaching school and reopened and offered the classes to 20 African American girls from up and down the eastern shore of the us. the opposition was great a year after this a law was passed prohibiting schooling black children from out side the state with out the towns permitting it: this law was called the black law. She continued to teach the girls and was arrested and put on trial. With one judgment against the the school took it all the way to the supreme court and won!  With this the towns people grew angry vandalized the school and finally burned the school down 1834 forcing her to close. Connecticut repealed the law 4 years later. With the support of Mark Twain she was recognized and provided money monthly and her school still stands.

Leonid Afremov

I found this painting by Leonid Afremov he is an Israeli oil painter. It just stood out to me I could not find another name for it other than #6 So take time to take this in with me. 

I love the vibrancy of the colors and movement it seems to bring you can see some of the quick steps of some of the people walking while the couple strolls along window shopping after a dinner date there is so much life and joy in the way this is painted  the reflection of the puddles adds so much. It feels to me like a busy pedestrian walk way when it is better weather while a few people are taking advantage of the bad weather for less crowds some are there because they have some where to go and have had no choice in the matter.  I think this place in the afternoon would be filled with shoppers and ladies lunching and business people rushing from meeting to meeting. a place where community is built and friendship are started and life it self is lived. 

What do you see?