Blog 25: Mentorship Blog Questions

Literal:

-Mentorship Hours at LAM

- Graciel Nardi, Director Latino Art Museum

909.484.2618 - 909.620.6009

281 S. Thomas St. Suite 105

Pomona, CA 91766

latinoartmuseum0@gmail.com

http://www.lamoa.net

Art Colony Pomona

Interpretive:

What is the most important thing that you have gained from this experience? Why?

- The most important thing that I have gained from my experience from volunteering at the Latino Art Museum was being able to get out of my comfort zone and being more involved in the art world. For example, I would have never gone to volunteer. I was always to shy for anything, but volunteering there allowed me to meet more people like volunteers or people in charge of the museum. I also gained a better understanding of the art world and how exhibits work. My father always told me about how it was to run a museum, so I was able to physically experience that. I also gained the skill and experience of talking to different people whether they are artists showing their work or guests looking at the art. 

Literal:

How has what you're done helped you to answer your EQ?

-It has helped me answer my eq as well as create my eq. When I would go volunteer when I wasn't busy doing anything I would walk around the museum because I was always so busy working I never got a chance to actually look and and appreciate the art. When I would walk around I would see all these beautiful art pieces and I always wondered what inspired them to create them, this is how my eq was made. Then, I began to see the style of styles that the artists were using or what techniques what they have been using. Some of the style I have seen before because of previous artists as well as techniques. With every exhibit we had  I was able to find my answers for example, building on your own ideas, with this I was able to see artists that have used a style and have included their own idea into it. With symbolic value, I saw that artists were adding symbolic value into their pieces, whether it was personal or just experience. I was able to find all my answers by volunteering at the museum, but I had to incorporate it into my senior project of Mexican folk art instead of just paintings.