Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Just Let The Kids Do Their Thing, And We'll Be Fine







Every year the Museum hosts an art exhibit from the Anchorage School District.  I managed to get there on the last day.  When you look at the work these kids do, you know that we're in good hands in the future.  There were so many worthy works. Here are just a few.

I'm not sure what Heaven was thinking here, but this definitely says she's feeling and thinking about big issues. 






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The piece in the exhibit is just the right face of this box, but I knew that the detail wouldn't show up so I added some close-ups of the details. It is really quite amazing.











Here I've meshed three together - Ellie's frog (close-up, not the whole thing), Kynsey's octopus, and Cache's wolf and caribou.










Here's another one where I'd love to talk to the artist and ask how this portrait was conceived and what it all means.  It took me a bit before I saw the musical notes.  A really interesting piece.
Tristan Burgess Grade 10 - Zebra









A beautifully executed and interesting work.  Who are these men?  How did the artist come up with this?


















I'm afraid I didn't do Katie's piece justice here.  The whole picture is in the lower right, then I've zoomed in on reflections in what we guessed were drops of water on the table.  Interesting piece.





There was just something about this large poster that spoke to me.


Hazel Marucut Grade 10 - Sirens of the Deep

I don't know why.  I guess it's the complicated simplicity of this piece and the slightly racy innocence. 



I know why I liked this one - I used to make similar doodles in class when I was bored.





They weren't quite together like this in the exhibit, but it seemed the right thing to do.  The tiger fish is by Brey Anna.  The rest you can see if you enlarge it.













Sarah Birdsall Grade 11 - Textured Hand
 And this one speaks for itself. 


My 14 year old companion at the exhibit saw one picture by a classmate.  We both agreed that in most cases, it was pretty easy to tell which ones were done by boys and which by girls.  But not all. 

5 comments:

  1. LOL The "portrait of two men" is clearly Jimmy Page and Robert Plant! Nice to know the kids are still into Led Zep...

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  2. I thought that looked like Robert Plant. Thanks Boscoe.

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  3. I was going to post the same.
    There are some good album covers here. Those double lps with all the fascinating artwork and inserts... wiping the inside cover of In Through the Out Door...In The Evening...

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    1. Back in the day I might have thought how much older Page and Plant looked. Today I thought how young they look.

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  4. The Birdsall artist of the last one must surely be related to serigrapher and former art instructor Byron Birdsall who used to live in Juneau but moved north.

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