Chicago Trip: Tricked me!

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!

In the Museum of Contemporary Photography I found myself staring at what I thought were photographs of the surface of the moon. They were, what I thought, photocopies of pictures from a book. Then I went over to read the description next to the picture and found out that they were pencil drawings! Jenny Akerlund drew these landscapes while looking at pictures of the moon in a book. The artist even copied the way the pages showed up on the scanner. It was unbelievable!