dresser trunks

i forgot to tell you what tashi and i did last saturday. we went to the family art jam at the uva art museum. this is a great program the museum offers where you get to learn about and explore exhibits with your child, and then make a project based on an exhibit.



the featured exhibit of this art jam was the dresser trunk project. this was a really funky, 3-d exhibit that combined sculpture, found object, photography and language to show and tell stories about travel, history, black culture and segregation along the southern crescent rail route, from new york city to new orleans. it was very cool and i want to go back to peek into peep holes and pull out moving slabs.



the project was to decorate our own little dresser trunk, and base it on a place we've been, or would like to go. i did india, because, i am still obsessed with the place. tashi did cyprus. amongst the craft supplies there were wooden spools, glass beads, pom poms, felt squares, stickers, markers and lots of magazines.



we really didn't have enough time to complete our projects, but we brought our little dresser trunks home and hopefully they will continue to grow and fill with our visions and memories of these two wonderful places that we've traveled to and from.