Polaroids and Pretzels
March 30th, 2009The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum joined forces to offer Big Brothers Big Sisters matches the opportunity to creatively explore the visual arts. Our Saturday interactive workshop incorporated the Gedi Sibony and Bruce Nauman exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis as well as the Old Masters works from the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
After travelling through the galleries at the Pulitzer and the Contemporary to explore the concepts of light, framing, and portrait, the participants made masterpieces of their own. Each big and little sister/brother pair received a Polaroid camera and created 10 self-portrait photographs. Nicholas Regnier’s Self portrait with a Portrait on an Easel from the Pulitzer and Bruce Nauman’s Self Portrait as a Fountain from the Contemporary were especially inspirational for this project. Then participants used colored paper, markers, and even pretzels to create a frame for their art. A second project (inspired by Bruce Nauman’s use of wordplay) used pretzels to create an edible work of art of words and sentences.
We had a blast with this incredibly creative group. Thanks to all of the matches who came and spent their Saturday with us!
