{"id":1107,"date":"2024-01-30T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlinegram.com\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:18:52","slug":"hands-on-art-at-the-brooklyn-museums-new-education-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlinegram.com\/hands-on-art-at-the-brooklyn-museums-new-education-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On Art at the Brooklyn Museum\u2019s New Education Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It could easily be an alien civilization: Its citizens have no gender, no organized religion, no formal government. They inhabit a lush ecosystem of candy-colored vegetation, where plants can grow infinitely tall. Residents travel on driverless, ring-shaped buses that hover in the atmosphere. A single year lasts more than two centuries.<\/p>\n
Yet as extraterrestrial as this environment sounds, you can soon encounter it in Brooklyn. Called \u201cArtland,\u201d it is an ever-expanding fantasy world and traveling museum exhibition designed by children, molded from modeling clay and overseen by the internationally renowned artist\u00a0Do Ho Suh, whose two young daughters conceived it. On Saturday, from noon to 3 p.m., \u201cArtland\u201d will welcome the public to a free celebration of the newly renovated\u00a0Toby Devan Lewis Education Center\u00a0at the Brooklyn Museum, where visitors can sculpt imaginary flora and fauna to add to the show\u2019s phantasmagoric jungles.<\/p>\n
In some ways, the installation symbolizes the new center, which aims to help visitors find their own pathways into art.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all about world building, right?\u201d Shamilia McBean Tocruray, the museum\u2019s director of education, said in an interview. \u201cAll about creating possibilities, and really akin to the invitation that we\u2019re making to our community to say: \u2018Come in here. What can we make together?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Titled \u201cArtland: An Installation by Do Ho Suh and Children,\u201d the show inaugurates the Norman M. Feinberg Gallery, just inside the entrance of the redesigned education center. The 9,500-square-foot wing also includes three art-making studios equipped with audiovisual technology, as well as education offices that foster collaboration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n