Learning and Discovery at the Edgar Art Gallery

She’s got the whole world, obviously, in her hands, but what I see is, “She’s got a whole world of opportunity ahead of her as she leaves the middle ground and heads off to high school.” To me, this piece represents the transition from childhood to young adulthood, as displayed at the Edgar Art Gallery last Sunday.

The organizers of the gallery insured that every student displayed a work of art. Everything on the long display in the middle of the gallery was interesting, but I love the bright colors in the featured art in my photograph.

I’m not quite sure, functionally, what the blue sculpture is, but I like the colors and the shapes. It reminds me of Charlie Brown’s shirt, and I love Charlie Brown.

I love music too, so of course I was drawn to this piece. Notice the big screen in the background of this shot. Included in the gallery was a slide show with a constant stream of photographs of art pieces the students had created. I love that!

“Let there be peace.” That one is really beautiful. I like how the artist incorporated letters, symbols, shapes and colors, all pieces of the puzzle in the complicated concept of world peace.

My goal when I ducked into the gallery after it had closed was to take a few snapshots of items that were created by students the same age as my son, Brad. But I liked how the art was all mixed up with 5th grade art on the same boards as the 8th grade students’ work. That was a nice display because it was interesting to note how far the older students have come.

Awesome!

“Let it rain!” Love the rain drops atop the mushroom.

Being a bit of a tree fan, I rather like this painting.

I’m not, however, a big fan of mice. I have a mousetrap on my desk at the Times because a mouse actually walked up to my hand once. Ew. But that’s a totally fun sculpture! Well done! It looks like you caught the bugger!

Corner shelves. I think somebody REALLY liked the one that was once displayed at the top left.

The layers of shapes and colors drew me in, and I wanted to capture that feeling with my photograph. See how the straight lines lead to the colorful round balloons?

This piece was called “Roller Coaster.” I did this crazy motion blur thing in Photoshop because the background had a trash can in it. I hate trash cans. What do you think of my crazy photo illustration? Love it? Hate it? See, if I’d been REALLY smart, I would have just walked over and moved the trash can. Lesson learned. Probably would have been a lot faster than the layer masking and motion blurring, that’s for sure. As a photographic artist, I am always learning.

I am drawn to the sculpture tables. I think it has something to do with the sparklies. I really like sparkly things.

I was drawn by the sun, and then I thought, what is that red thing? I LOVE the color! I love the display of blue, red and yellow on the table too. This is the “Table of Unfinished Art.”

Obviously, I studied this red thing quite a lot. I was trying to figure out what it was, or what it was going to be once it was finished.

So I asked my husband, Mike, “What is that?”

Instantly, he replied, “Sputnik!”

Then he looked at it closely again, picked up the red balloon and said, . . .

. . . “Hmmmm.”

“Aha!”

Hot air balloon!  

It was at this point that I took note of the name on the little tag: “Bradley Shaver.”