This is a gallery not as big as others that I’ve been to before but it
made a big impress on me. When
you get to down town riverside you can find a lot of beautiful architectures
from different time rage on the sides of the road. It’s a really cute downtown
once you get off from I-15 it will not even take you ten minute to get there
and the art museum is right on your left. There is a big “ART” sign in three-primary
colours in front of the gallery that you can tell you are in the right place.
When you walk inside, there are three different exhibition hall hanging
different kinds of artworks. If you keep walking straight you can reach an
outdoor like but actually indoor exhibition hall, there is a theme photo show
is on. The artist Michael Nye put on a show about Hunger and Resilience. The photo was really shocking. All of them
are black and white photo and all the people who are in the picture look either
tired, upset or unhappy. Why? Cause they are hungry. There are also a radio
that is use to tell you the story of the main guy in the picture. The fifty
portraits and audio stories show different people who have experienced hunger.
In simple, eloquent detail, these voices and images draw you closer into their
lives. The story is not intended to summary anyone’s life. My favorite photo
out of all is a man who is sitting on top of a rock and behind him are some
wood and box as well as trees. He looks
different than other people who are in the picture. He looks like he has some strength
and from what he said I remember the most is “when I don’t have food and hungry I will go
drive to the garbage can sometimes hunger lead you that way but I will not beg
for my food or pay a handle of my food, to me it is something about humiliate and
never let yourself down no matter how beaten you are. Never let the world beat you
down.” Michael said all the people in the picture are teachers and we are
students to listen to their world and learn from it.
When you turnaround and walk to the second floor of the museum you can
see another theme show is on which is called “52”. “She was born in 52,
has 52 favorite trees, and took
a 52-week art sabbatical…” she is Sue Mitchell, a printmaker mixed media artist. It’s all about trees in a local
park ----Fairmont Park. Sue is a local artist, she live in riverside for a long
time and she said Fairmont park is the place that she always go and enjoy the
cool in the shades of all those trees in her area until one day she realize how
amazing the patterns on the trees are and she started to study them. She
thought about doing this art show to show people the thing that she love and
she promise she will show every little details that in the processes of 52
weeks of collecting. So there is another room connected to the exhibition room, which is her studio. She
moved her studio from home to museum and does her work inside instead and
visitor who wants to cheat with her can do that easily. The whole room is full of her little detail
colleting from 52 weeks which you can see on your left hand of you go inside
she even has a memorial photo board for her animal friends that she found died
in the park. 
The most interesting part of her studio is a board which she named
it “birds poop art”. One day she was walking in the park trying to get some
picture for her trees but suddenly she saw bird poops on the ground that have
different shapes then she used them as one of her design elements. There is a
guy flying a skit, a man smoking a cigarette, a monster and a lot of other amazing
design based on the shape of the poops. She told me everywhere is art but you
just have to have the eye to find it. She has her own business so she went to
home school for he art classes and she told me those two different exhibition
rooms just like the epitome of her life. Outside, the show case room is how
people view her as a businesswoman, organized, perfect and orderly but actually
inside her brain there is another world crazy, imaginative and fancy. Through
out the whole 52 weeks she learnt a lot from the natural and enjoying her life
at the same time. There are some important things that I leant from her:
1.
Always
keep a notebook with you in case you have any inspiration you can write it
done.
2.
Open
your eyes to see the world, you will be amazed how fascinating and beautiful
this world is from a different aspect.
3.
Be creative and use your imagination but the
most important thing is to make some actions.
4.
Knowing
how to marketing is really important too.
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