Thursday! This means that there will be in the high traffic club hours. Instead of roaming around and blending into the crowd, we (LC 20) decided to go to the Sidney Mishkin Gallery. The gallery mimicked the museum experience. We had a little tour from Dr. Sandra Kraskin. She was extremely helpful. To be honest, if I had walked into this gallery by myself, I would have been uninterested in the pictures. Most of the photographs in this gallery are everyday photographs that we see in the news and news articles. Dr. Kraskin brought up the common theme of social groups among these pictures. Growing up and being exposed to technology and the internet, our first thought of social groups was Facebook.
This gallery taught me to look and think outside of the box. Social groups are found all around the world in every ethnicity and every culture. Some are proud groups such as a group of fans rooting for the same soccer team. At the same time, there are groups that people are forced and threatened to be a part of; for example, a band African guerilla soldiers filled with little kids whom are no older than ten years of age. This gallery made me realized how important social groups are and how fortune we are in the United States. The basic rights and freedom that we take advantage of (and sometime abused) are the very same rights that other nations are dying to obtain. Although this gallery was short and simple, the message behind it was definitely an eye opener.
I agree. My experience at the Sidney Mishkin Art Gallery wasn’t what I expected. Thursday afternoons are known as club hours and most of us from LC 20 didn’t want to put our time to waste. We decided to head to 22nd street and check out the widely talked about art gallery.
When we arrived to the gallery, there was about ten or eleven LC 20 members; the gallery was empty. We has a short five minute introductory tour from Dr. Sandra Kraskin. She was very kind and she told us about the gallery’s theme, social groups. As said above, our first thought was Facebook; however, Dr. Kraskin was expecting for someone to say family because we are all close to our family. Most of the pictures were ordinary pictures. Each photograph represented something different. There were pictures of Swedish soccer fans, naked people playing baseball, religious people praying; it was unexpected. When I heard “art gallery” I was expecting some crazy art work that we could find in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and etc.
Like the student above said, this gallery about social groups portrayed the importance of the groups. It also taught us that we should be thankful for whatever riches and technologies we can afford because there are millions of people worldwide that aren’t as fortunate as we are. Despite a small gallery and a shorter than anticipated visit, I enjoyed the Sidney Mishkin Art Gallery; I think we all did. It was a nice workshop. I’m looking forward to the other workshops as well!
-Robi Baazashvili of LC 20
This was my first workshop, it was beyond my imagination for sure. I wasn’t sure what to expect when we all decided to just head over to the art gallery and it was interesting.
The place itself was hidden on 22nd second street around the corner. The gallery itself was small but held a lot of pictures. To be exact it held a lot of photographs. I didn’t expect it but it wasn’t that surprising since photographic exhibitions seems more common than before. The guide Dr.Krashin was pretty thorough explaining each section of the gallery. It was definitely a learning experience.
The overall theme was social groups and we saw groups throughout time and throughout the world. It ranged from children soldiers to actors from the 70s. It really made me think about the connection we as people all share with each other. Than i realized we as an LC are an awesome social group that is really important to me.
The overall exhibit was despite being small had big meaning. The notes on the wall helped convey a lot about the artistes and the photos. It was a cool workship and I hope the others are just as fun. Hope we LC 20 all get to go together next times too.
Walking into the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, I felt as if I was walking through a train ride through time. The photographs in the gallery were deeply filled with emotions, traits, and visuals that distinctly represented the characteristics of each group. As a fan of art, I deeply appreciated all the photographs presented at the gallery because they brought into that connection of belonging to a group. Life as we put it is in groups, humans belong in groups, animals are placed in groups, and just about anything you can think of are classified into their respective groups. I couldn’t have agreed more on the message presented from each of these photographs. I enjoyed looking at the photograph with the Swedish soccer fans, the family portraits, and the religious photographs. I was deeply fascinated with that one photograph in particular on the children that were slaves because I have read many articles on that particular topic. Overall, I believe the visit to this art gallery was really great and I believe all these photographs represent the quote, “A picture represents a thousand words.”
– Annie Lam of LC 20
I felt the same way about this art gallery. I though the fact that we went as a group made it a lot more fun and interesting. I was surprised that the gallery was so close. I thought we would have to go very far to reach it.
When I was told we were going to go to an art gallery I expected to see several abstract picture that were painted. But when I arrived I saw that the pictures where photographs that showed different social groups as Dr. Sandra Kraskin explained to us. I thought a a lot of the art we saw was very interesting especially the pictures that showed the African genocides. You could feel what the people in the picture felt by looking at their facial expressions.
I really liked the fact that Dr. Sandra Kraskin got us involved by asking us question instead of just talking the whole time. After showing us a few of the pictures she allowed us to view the pictures on our own which I liked since it gave me a chance to focus on the pictures that caught my eyes. Overall, i thought this was a new, good experience.