Fun at Artsplosure!!!

Ms. Garvey and Ms. Bethel checkin out the sculpture garden.

I hope you were able to make it out to Moore Square this weekend to check out Artsplosure. I visited the festival on Sunday with Ms. Garvey and Ms. Bethel, two of our wonderful first grade teachers. We checked out the Impressionist sculpture garden. It was cool to see these figures that were originally part of impressionist paintings turned into 3D, lifesize sculptures.

Me with Logan, the designer of the necklace.

There were lots of tents filled with artwork for sale. We looked at photography, paintings, wood carvings, pottery, and so much more! One of my favorite things to look at is the jewelry. There are so many different ways to make jewelry. Some people make it with beads that they've created themselves with glass, some people use found objects or metal that they cut and bend and hammer to create interesting and original designs. I bought a necklace that was actually designed by the artist's daughter, Logan, when she was only 5 years old! She drew out the design and picked out the words and her mother made it using metal. It just goes to show that you don't have to be a grown up to create wonderful artwork.

We also saw an awesome sand sculpture and watched as people worked together to help create a community art installation. Installation art is a genre of art that is created for a specific area and is often meant to change the way you see and understand the space that it is created in. Sometimes art installations are permanent and sometimes they are only meant to stay for a short amount of time.