Our First Class Trip of the Year !



Artwork by Emily Duffy



After a great discussion about the tragedy of 9/11, we took our first class trip down to Miami. The weather was great and we were on our way to find some inspiration. Our first stop was fantastic ! Our  very own Art Director, Lorie Setton had two of her pieces up at a show at the Christopher Miro Gallery, we were so proud of her and really loved her work. After a little lunch we hit a really powerful show at the LMNT Gallery which featured an extraordinary collection of conceptual pieces revolving around the events of 9/11. When we returned to the studio we grabbed our journals and wrote about the works and our thoughts about the exhibit. We would love to share just a few of those thoughts with you and a few of the pieces we created as a tribute to 9/11...

Dear Journal,

Yesterday we went to Miami, we had the privilege to visit two incredible art exhibits. The first one featured artwork from our very own Lorie which was so cool ! Next, we had some lunch and then we were off  to the 9/11 Memorial. Unfortunately, it rained on the way there but I didn't let it ruin my day ! There's no "raining on my parade !" When I first took a look around I real needed to look and I really mean look to understand the artwork at first. Then once I grasped the concept, I really fell in love with it. This memorial really affected me and I wound up taking pictures of all the art pieces because I wanted to remember them. As they say when associating with 9/11, " Never Forget ". My favorite piece's in the memorial were the " two medicine " towers representing all the medicine the creator had to take as a result of helping clean up the debris from the aftermath of the twin towers. My other favorite was an outline of NYC with a heart monitor symbolising the timeline of terror events in NYC leading up to 9/11. All in all, this was an incredible trip and I would love to go back.

Love,

Ashley Kleinman

Artwork by Rachel Bates



Yesterday we went to a 9/11 Memorial art gallery in Miami which was very interesting. There was a giant wing from a plane with pictures showing birds flying into planes. This demonstrated how powerful a single bird can be to a plane and how devastating it must have been for a plane to go into a building. My favorite piece was either the skyline of the city with a heartbeat or the cabinets with all the medicine in it. These people were doing such a good deed by going to Ground Zero and helping out and now so many of them have terrible diseases or cancer. The skyline, to me, represented the city before 9/11 thriving with a good heartbeat then during and after9/11 the city was almost at a standstill but then eventually people learned to move on and live their life. Another interesting piece in the gallery was the circles with all the pictures of the people who had died on that tragic day. I heard the number of people that died over and over, which was close to 3,000, but you don't really realize how many people died until you see all their faces.

Rebecca Luckman

Artwork by Lara Bouilland

Without a doubt the combination of our artwork, the trip down to Miami and sharing our thoughts in our journals has really impacted us and given us a much deeper more compassionate view about the history of 9/11. And we are totally looking forward to our next trip, so stay tuned !