Art Committee Kicks Off the School Year

The 2017-2018 Sixth Form Art Committee members are off to a strong start. As an opening event for the year, ten of the members travelled west to visit the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, known locally as MASS MoCA. We started off with a bit of lunch and a few spins of the outdoor piece, Music Box, by the artist driven collaborative, New Orleans Airlift.  The piece is named The Corrugarou, and it is a fun to use crank-driven re-make of Huebner and Schrock’s Chateau Poulet.  Using rotating fans with different size tubes, it produces “hauntingly beautiful droning tones”.  Inside the museum itself we roamed through three floors to admire the works of Sol LeWitt. The first floor works were from his early career, the second floor his mid-career works and the top floor held his more recent pieces. Follow this link if you would like to see more about Sol LeWitt’s artwork at Mass MoCA.   http://massmoca.org/sol-lewitt/.

We also discovered sculpture by Louise Bourgeoius and meandered through the beginnings of an installation on the main floor. It was a wonderful trip and the only thing we didn’t have time for was an ice cream cone on the way home. I told the boys I owe them one. We are all looking forward to an active year and are plotting our goals now. See photos from the trip here.