EVENT #1

RUTH CHANDLER WILLIAMSON GALLERY

This museum is one closer to my home in Claremont California. Unfortunately, the museum was partially under construction so I didn't have the opportunity to see the lovely ceramics they usually have. A classmate and I got to take pictures of the paintings they did have up but I did some research on some of the beautiful art they usually have up. This is me to the left next to a poster advertisement they had.


As my classmate and I first started looking around in the museum we became extremely confused because we could not figure out how this place related to both art and science. We saw the art but we weren't noticing the science. However, little by little we began to make more and more connections that we would have never really thought of if we hadn't had the opportunity to be in this class.



The first thing I ran into that helped me make a connection was this book to the right. There I was ready to give up on trying to make a connection when suddenly I ran into this book they had on display. Towards the bottom of the book I read "Intersections of Art and Science". I became surprised to actually find this in there. I did more research behind it and i found out that this particular museum was having an exhibition on this.
" This exhibition features works by six artists who create imaginative spaces that take their point of departure from scientific phenomena at extreme scales, both vastly huge or vanishingly small. In light of the recent decoding of the human genome and the many implications of this breakthrough, this exhibition’s scientific focus is particularly compelling."

-I found this on their site and felt it was more scientific rather than related to art. Again, I was shocked. 

My classmate also made other wonderful connections in this museum related to art and science. For example, she had taken a picture of a painting of the industrial era which had a railroad painted as well and quickly she made the connection with technology advances. This painting was the art of what made possible the US expansion.

Overall, our experience in this museum located in the Scripps College was a pleasant one. I wish I would have actually visited the museum during the time that it was completely set up but regardless I still got good things out of what I saw.