ART?...YAY!

Learn- I visited a few websites and I learned about several upcoming events in Modesto. I found out that Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is being performed at the Gallo Center! I would love to go to see this with my daughter and husband. I remember I went to one play when I was in middle school on San Jose. I really liked it. I guess I never went to see a play again because my family is not the type to go to those types of events. There is also the Third Thursday Artwalk and art work being displayed at galleries like the Mistlin and the CSUS Student Gallery. Arts and Culture activities are important to a community. But I never realized this because my family has never been involved in community events. I am going to start going to these events because I want to feel that I am a part of the art community in Modesto and I want to teach my daughter about appreciating art (something that I don’t think I have learned fully even though I am an art major!) and to help her feel that she is a part of the community in Modesto.

My Eva doing some painting!

Act-In all the time I have lived in the Modesto area I have only been involved in a few art events in my community. I was in the Young Masters Art Show in Mistlin Gallery when I was in high school and I have submitted works in the TCAC Spring Juried Art Show. I have always felt that I should get more involved in the art community, I mean I’m an art major! I have never even gone to an Art Club meeting (I wanted to join this year but the meeting times interfered with classes I had or there were other things I had to do). I also have never been to a Third Thursday Artwalk! WTF?! Damn me and my excuses! I will go on November 18 to the Third Thursday Artwalk and to visit the Student Gallery. I will take my Eva, of course.

A woodcut I made of Eva.

Imagine- I, Monkey Woman, think there are good arts and culture events in Modesto. I just think people like me overlook the opportunities to attend these types of events. I think there could be more advertising about the events going on in Modesto. A lot of people, including my family and I, have no idea about upcoming events in Modesto. SO…I will use my money to do advertising for events going on in Modesto! How boring! I think more people should know that EVERYONE can be involved in art events even if they don’t see themselves as “artists.” I think this is my problem; I don’t see myself as fitting in in the “art community” even though I love doing artwork. I need to get myself and more people around me involved in the Modesto art and culture community. In five years I hope to get my family, the rest of the people in the Modesto area, and I to be more excited about being involved in the Modesto art and culture events.

FUN TIME!!

Learn: I had no idea about some of the leisure activities that exist in Modesto. For example, I had no idea there was a cycling festival here! Ugh...I wish I had a bike...I'm going to steal my brother's bike tomorrow. I also didn't know how important it is for us to just have fun and relax...without t.v. or movies. I'm going to tell my husband to go to the park with my daughter and I. The fresh air and relaxing will benefit the three of us.

Act: When I was young, I enjoyed bike riding. I was never really involved in sports when I was younger...I was quite fat. I did enjoy playing tag. I was regrettably never into any physical activites until I was in my late teens. I started jogging then. All the physical activity I had in my high school years were because of my P.E. class. I enjoyed ultimate frisbee and capture-the-flag games...even though I never captured a flag -.- For my activity in Modesto I walked to the soccer field/golf course/park/ baseball field by my house...John Thurman Field. I took my daughter in a stroller. When we got to the field I laid a blanket down on the grass so my daughter could play. She is only 14 months and still isnt too comfortable walking so she mostly crawled around. She just played around with a few balls I brought along and enjoyed pulling grass out of the dirt. After she got tired of playing I put her back in her stroller and did a lap around the golf course. I would have enjoyed it more if the path was paved. It was only 50% paved and the rest was dirt. The stroller kept getting stuck in the dirt...which is irritating when one is trying to speed walk.

Imagine: I am going to hold a weekly activity day at a local park. There will be a capture-the-flag game!; an area for kids and another for adults. There will also be a maze area! But it will not be made of corn but of grass!...which I will make grow super fast with my laser vision! There will also be other games like that one game where you tie your leg to another person's and try to reach a finish line....awesome. I will also shoot poisonous banana seeds at people's feet to make them dance and get them moving!...I kid, I kid...or do I? >_> I will fund all of this because I am filthy rich, dammit!

This foo' is about to have his flag captured! WAHA!

Aw...he got lost on my grass maze. :[