Arts Crawl 2012

On Friday I attended the Arts Crawl at the Palmer Museum. It was a new experience for me, and I kind of liked it. Having no idea where to even start I sat and listened to music in the dining café attached to the museum. A young man was playing his guitar singing cheap cover songs. I thought that this was very interesting not only for me but for the museum. I didn’t expect live music to be considered art at this art crawl, but this surprise in a way opened my mind to the whole day. Starting off hearing music at an arts festival made me appreciate that everything is art. Art has no boundaries. I felt that from seeing something that didn’t originally seem like art to me first, I had an open mind to check out other things during the day and appreciate it as art.

From there I moved down a hallway that interestingly was completely covered in drawings. Each drawing on a normal sheet fit like a puzzle of confusion. There was a lot going on in the mural such as mountains, alarm clocks, lightning, and your standard chaos. I was just amazed though that every piece of paper fit perfectly into the situation. Another interesting gala was the strange art gallery, which was filled with interesting things that you would never consider art. Some of these things included a cube filled with sand, a naked body made out of magazine clippings on a mannequin, and my favorite piece: a giant gummy beat sitting on a chair made of icing and other gummy bears. I remember having to make gingerbread houses around Christmas time and never considering it art, but just like the old cliché “one man’s trash, is another man’s treasure”, but for me both just looked like a good lunch.

I ended my day by adding to a mural on a wall. The top of the hallway said, “What Is Happiness”, and everybody posted a picture of what they thought was happiness. By everybody, I mean myself and every 6 year-old who was there. I drew a sun because when the sun is out, I am always happy.  Of course it was the worst drawing ever, but at least I tried. Some of the 6 year-olds might have considered it art. But overall, the Arts Crawl made me think about our discussions in class “What is art”. After writing several papers trying to figure out what art is, the Arts Crawl made me realize everything is art, so appreciate it.