Chicago Trip: Contemporary Photography is cool!

Intro to blog

On Saturday, October 14th Chicago, Illinois warmly welcomed three tour buses filled with eager MSU students. Ok, well maybe Chicago did't really "warmly" welcome us and maybe the students weren't so "eager" either, at least not with the early morning wakeup call the day before the Michigan Michigan State game and a long bus ride. But either way, we had arrived in Chicago. I have been to downtown Chicago numerous times before this trip but never experienced it the way I did on this class trip. I have always done the normal touristy things before like, visit Navy Pier, shop all of the famous stores, take pictures in "The Bean" and all the other exciting famous Chicago tourist attractions. But, one thing that I had never experienced, beside "The Bean," was the artistic side of Chicago. Every venue that we visited was a new and exciting adventure to me We started off in The Chicago Art Museum, went to the City Space Gallery, The Fine Arts Building, the MOCP Museum of Contemporary Photography, Arts and Artisans American Gallery, Blick, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Illinois Institute of Arts, and Millennium Park. What a busy day it was!

We went into the Museum of Contemporary Photography, planning to run in and look "really quick" and ended up staying for awhile! The piece that stood out to me the most was a collage made of 4X6 pictures of the sun. From the entrance this is the first thing you see across the room. At first I thought it was just brightly colored squares with yellow circles in the middle, I didn't get it but thought it was cool anyways, so walked over to get a closer look. Upon further review I realized that each rectangle was a picture of the sun. It was really cool to see all of these different depictions of the sun.