Steph Langdon

  I'm still catching up on past adventures. Over the winter break, we had passes to see special exhibits & the kids insisted that we use them. We saw the 'Mary Cassatt At Work' exhibit at the Legion of Honor . We enjoyed seeing her impressionist paintings with women as the focus, but the kids were intrigued to learn about her print-making, which is what inspired our art. Amelia had also recently finished a print-making class, so it was a special surprise to learn about Mary Cassatt's.      We continue to play with different mediums, go outside our comfort zones with our creativity, & learn about art history/artists along the way.

We visited the new location for the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (345 Montgomery Street) back in January. I have been doing other things, but am now here to share what we created based on our visit. As part of their 'Poetics of Dimensions' exhibit by artist  Miguel Arzabe  we looked at different ways of weaving, like his 'Last Weaving' (shown above). Then of course we found our way to their Makers Studio to find old magazines to use to make our own woven art (*we love museums that have hands on spaces for adults & kids to be artists too!). His: Hers: Mine: We also had fun seeing the art of a claw game. The kids were able to get coins from the front desk and we talked about the psychology of wanting to win, feeling like you can win, and then losing. The kid were familiar with these types of games, but the exhibit challenged them to see it differently and as art. ICA SF is always free and was an easy train ride for us. If you haven't been, we'd ...