Workshop #4: Gallery Tour: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective

On November 17th, I headed to the Arts at Baruch Mishkin Gallery during club hours too attend the Gallery Tour: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective (close to 1:30, after i got done with the speech review session with Sue). This Arts at Baruch workshop aimed to display Baruch College’s vast art display to freshmen students. It started with us taking off our bags and hanging them up, signing in, and gathering around the lady who would be conducting the tour. We all became quite still and silent as we gazed upon the magnificent pieces of art in front of us. I had never seen such wonderful paintings before. I quickly became awe stricken when i learned about the significance of these pieces of art. The paintings, with their radiant streaks of color all coming together to form a marvelous picture, were made by a girl, Mercedes who was younger than we were. As she grew up, her paintings became better and more realistic. This tour inspired me to produce paintings of my own and I now have a new found appreciation for art. Thanks to this workshop, I admire painters and their works. I think everyone should go to this workshop because it is truly a marvelous experience and I will definitely recommend it to my fellow students. This workshop met my expectation and went far beyond them I went in expecting to see boring paintings, I came out with a whole new perspective on art. The artist surprised me the most, I did not expect someone of such a young age to produce such incredible works of art. I hope every freshman attending Baruch College attends this workshop for it was a life changing experience.