I'm extremely excited about the upcoming Gorgeous exhibition, which features art by both the Asian Art Museum and the SFMOMA. As interns, we were given the task to come up with Family Fun Day art activities that would encompass aspects of the Gorgeous exhibit.
The activity I came up with is a Found Objects box. Each museum visitor could create their own box, which is supposed to visually represent who they are as a person. The outside could be how other people view a person, and the inside could be how they view themselves. People could decorate their art using different objects such as glitter glue, jewels, and old photographs. I'm hoping that by creating a Found Objects box, visitors are able to relate to different portraits in the exhibition. As Samuel Butler said: "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always portrait of himself."
-Cami