• Tales of the Field Trip
• Our Public Art Project

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Tales of Sharing and Caring

I'll just put up a couple of brief notes this morning. We had, of course, a wonderful time, as we always do on these field trips. Pat and I were tired after the Justice Studies Association meetings, and I was remiss in not e-mailing individuals I knew wanted to go. We relied on our Dear Habermas announcements exclusively, and this, after school was well over.

Pat was the only one there on time, and a good thing that was, since I had goofed by setting the time a half hour before the museum opened. Donna Woods was there, an artist friend of Donna's, and Frances Cardoza and Jacqueline, her daughter, and Michelle and John and their two children, Pat's grandchildren, and Suzanne, another of Pat's daughters, and jeanne and Arnold. Pat had telephoned the museum the week before to see if we could use tables in an art space for our project. But we had been too tired to follow through, so we walked in unannounced. Well, straggled in would be more like it.

The young man in charge that day, Isaac . . . , looked at us a tad suspiciously as our chaos descended upon the just opened doors of the museum. But, as luck would have it, I had prepared a sheet on our project that very morning, and phoned Pat, who dutifully printed copies, since my printer hasn't yet been fixed. I eagerly thrust the handout into his hands and responded to the query of where we were from by pointing to our handout. Of course, I had forgotten that we're from CSUDH AND the University of Wisconsin. That threw him for a moment. Had we just flown in from Wisconsin? Satisfied that we must be legitimate, for who could concoct such a story and scene, Isaac welcomed us. And what a welcome!

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The let us have their workshop.
We met an exhibiting artist - Donna - exchanged addresses with them.
Our project, etc.

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Our Public Art Project Today

One of the things we share as a community is a wonderful variety of cultures. Tomorrow, June 18, is Father's Day. We turned Mother's Day into a Day of Sharing Love with each other and with our children. We'd like to do that with Father's Day also. Our project today will celebrate sharing and caring. As you go through the museum, see if you can discover the many ways in which people share their love for each other:

• color - bright, happy colors
• form - lines which make X's, hearts, shapes which seem to reach out to others
• space - drawing the eye to focus on something

After our visit in the museum we will put what we have learned into our own art work which we will bind into a card or book.

How to make the book:

• Put the pages together in the order you would like them.
• Paint your pages and let them dry thoroughly.
• Then fold the pages together and mark the spacing for the stitching of the binding.
• Use one of the needles to put holes in the papers.
• then thread the needle with yarn, and stitch the pages together in a creative pattern.
• That's it. You've made a book!

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