Extra Credit:CULC Art Crawl

Beth and I in front of the dinosaur and coat

This event was big, with a lot of artwork spread without the Clough. I visited each floor and viewed the various pieces. On the third floor, the big dinosaur display and the coat were the first things I noticed after walking up the staircase. The coat seemed a bit random to me until I read the description to know what the story was behind it. I still find the story of the coat a bit strange because I don't understand why anyone would think it would be a good idea to put LED lights in the coat to begin with, but I'm glad that the creator of the project was able to improve the coat by taking out the LED lights on her own and add an inner layer to the coat.

LED coat

Jurassic UrRu

I got to actually meet the artist who created the dinosaur sculpture above. She was standing nearby, anxious to hear what people's opinions of her work were. She explained that this dinosaur may have been related to the more familiar Stegosaurus. She spoke about how she made it with paper mache underneath the fur and that she was going to put a camera lens in the eye, and display it in her house. It was nice to meet her and speak to her to realize how much work she put into her project and all of the plans she had for it.

The display of photography was very impressive to me. I love photography and wish that I had put in a photo for the art crawl. I admired a lot of the photos, and it was interesting to see the work of a friend of mine who had two pieces on display. 

photo of "Dude at the Beach"

I really liked the above photo because of how beautiful it was and because how natural and un-posed it was. The "little dude" just happened to walk in front of the shot, but it ended up making the photo, adding a nice thought of pondering life in the piece.