It's Been A Week on Off the Wall Friday

Friday, March 1, 2024

It's Been A Week on Off the Wall Friday

Dorothea Lange, Seeing People Exhibit

Okay so here is this week's tip....don't think you can take a quick 2-day trip to Washington DC and not come home exhausted and your mind a big creative blur. We only saw 2 museums, The National Gallery and the National Museum of American History and it still was stimuli overload. It wasn't just the museums which were amazing in themselves, but also the whole National Mall area. We took the metro in from Arlington, VA, and popped up in the Federal Triangle station which is the middle of 10 neoclassial HUGE buildings. I truly could have gone and toured the architecture of the buildings you hear every day - IRS, EPA, etc.

The Dorothea Lange exhibit was just as amazing as advertised. The thing about the National Gallery is that they own so much art, that you never quite know what they are going to have up on view. Not to mention, I keep getting lost in their galleries! One of these trips, I'm going to take the map and just mark galleries off as I go through them.

The American History Museum added the Entertainment Nation exhibit on the 3rd floor. It's a mass of pop media culture with lights and music to match. It truly was crazy!

So I came home with my creative soul full and my Fitbit happy. And it got me thinking....the National Gallery is a free-use museum with all of Lange's work stored at the Library Congress....and it so happens they have a very useable website.....andddddd

Down the rabbit hole, I went!

I am suggesting you take time to look at all the amazing stuff the Library of Congress has put online BUT don't blame me if you end up looking for three days straight.

I do have a very cool idea for my next series...but I promised my husband I would not start another until I finished my Calendar Cows. To that end, August Vacation Cow is officially sewn!