assignment 2 b.

MoLAA is Museum of Latin American Art.
I was able to watch the first two of the three video clips listed. The first one was Gregorio Luke, the museums (ex!) director and a few others give an excited and inspired description of the MoLAA. Luke went over the programs that are offered to the public, describing the exhibits and asking for donations for the future goals of the MoLAA. The MoLAA is located in Long Beach and is the only contemporary Latin American museum in the United States. They were excited to redesign the building, (which they have). The second video was a tour made from a collection of photographs set to beautiful music. The author did a great job cataloging the information; first- the introduction of the artist and title of piece followed by the article its self. I loved the folk art in the entry way. I really loved Walter Goldfarbs, “The Fall of the King II.” I was surprised and happy to learn that the MoLAA has several collage pieces, I enjoy that medium. I noticed that there were quite a few female artists being featured, which pleased me as well. As for the third video on the list, I was unable to access it, so I did a Google search for MoLAA news. I picked around at a few different articles and discovered that MoLAA is the only contemporary art museum dedicated to Latin American culture in the United States. They have an artist workshop program that ranges from children, novice and professional abilities. The MoLAA has a strong commitment to the performing arts as well, music and dance performances happen regularly.
Three questions for my classmates:
1.) Describe Johnny Palacios Hidalgo’s “untitled” piece.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kUa2HgJEITQ&
2.) What district in Long Beach is MoLAA located?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lcj6ld0gKck
3.) What day is MoLAA free?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hu5geLH1Q9A

There was a few interesting facts that I picked up from the MoLAA website. The first bit of information was in an article describing the permanent collection the discussion was about how spiritual and religious practices affects art, “Cuban artist, Jose Bedia focuses on the Amerindian and Afro-Cuban cultures that practice the religions of Palo Monte and Santería or a ritual form of communication with the spirit world in search of man’s relationship to nature and animals.” I had heard of Santeria before, but never Palo Monte… so I look a little trip to http://www.wikipeadia.org/ and found out that Palo is a practice that originated in the Congo and came to Cuba and the Dominican Republic buy way of the save trade. The Palo focuses on the power of their ancestors and the power of the earth.
The second interesting bit was that the Robert Gumbiner Foundation donates over one million dollars a year to the museum.
Who is this Robert Gumbiner?
I googled him: Dr. Gumbiner conceived and founded the MoLAA in 1996. He was a successful physician and championed for fair and affordable health care for many years. He is a writer, a teacher and loves the arts.
Lastly the third fact that I found on the MoLAA website was that the building was originally home to a silent movie studio. So much art for one place…