Moore students and faculty enjoyed a weekend full of art in October as they visited the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (the Clark).
About 25 students were chaperoned by Fine Arts Chair Robert Goodman and faculty members Alice Oh and Jerry Kaba. The department sponsors two trips a year, one in the spring and one in the fall, but this venture was different.
"This was our first overnight trip," said Goodman. "We had never done anything like this before."
The group took a bus to Massachusetts Saturday, October 12, and toured the Clark. Everyone was in line Sunday morning when MASS MoCA opened. Goodman said a highlight was work by Trenton Doyle Hancock, which combined painting, sculpture, animation and performance, "and was a really great show to see."
Goodman said MASS MoCA had a number of topical exhibits that dealt with race, immigration and politics.
"It was important for the students to understand the cultural terrain in which they are making work, and spaces like the Clark and MASS MoCA exposed the students to really important, highly ambitious art that they are not going to have the opportunity to see elsewhere," Goodman said. "It exposes them to artists, it exposes them to venues and they see the scope of what's possible."
The group also had a private tour of the studios of the MASS MoCA artist residency program.
