Sunday, August 30, 2009

Artsy Fartsy...But Cool



Saturday afternoon we spent in Baltimore City at the American Visionary Art Museum. It was a wonderful experience for the whole family. All around the outside of the museum, there are beautiful mosaic tiles. Like this:



And the shimmery sparkly tree in front of the museum. What a beautiful sparkly creation!




The museum has tree buildings. There is the main exhibition building that has amazing artwork and sculptures by tremendously talented and creative people. Some of them almost moved me to tears. And some of them were so cute and clever, that we all were in awe. The amazing thing is that many of the artists started creating their artwork in elementary school. Like Dalton Ghetti, who started carving tiny sculptures out of his pencil lead when he was in third grade.
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The egg that fell out of that big nest This is a great place to take the whole family. There really is something here for everyone to enjoy

3 comments:

Linds said...

Love that last photo- those kids look so much older- so NOT right. Awesome looking museum.

Ariella said...

OMGosh! That pencil lead is crazy! Did he do that with his teeth? Very fun. We might just have to go.

SheL said...

Yeah... how DID he carve the pencil lead? Very cool pictures.