Starting to get more consistent haha

So I wanted to make sure I wrote on here about my children's field trip! Last week we took Elephant Class to the SOMA Museum of Art in Seoul to a Keith Haring Art Exhibit! Keith Haring was an influential pop artist in the 1980s who found his fame through drawing on the New York City subway station walls. Here's what www.haring.com says about him...

"He began to create drawings in white chalk upon these blank paper panels throughout the subway system. Between 1980 and 1985, Haring produced hundreds of these public drawings in rapid rhythmic lines, sometimes creating as many as forty “subway drawings” in one day. This seamless flow of images became familiar to New York commuters, who often would stop to engage the artist when they encountered him at work. The subway became, as Haring said, a “laboratory” for working out his ideas and experimenting with his simple lines

Throughout his career, Haring devoted much of his time to public works, which often carried social messages. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, in dozens of cities around the world, many of which were created for charities, hospitals, children’s day care centers and orphanages. The now famous Crack is Wack mural of 1986 has become a landmark along New York’s FDR Drive. Other projects include; a mural created for the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 1986, on which Haring worked with 900 children; a mural on the exterior of Necker Children’s Hospital in Paris, France in 1987; and a mural painted on the western side of the Berlin Wall three years before its fall. Haring also held drawing workshops for children in schools and museums in New York, Amsterdam, London, Tokyo and Bordeaux, and produced imagery for many literacy programs and other public service campaigns.

Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, its mandate being to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children’s programs, and to expand the audience for Haring’s work through exhibitions, publications and the licensing of his images. Haring enlisted his imagery during the last years of his life to speak about his own illness and generate activism and awareness about AIDS.

During a brief but intense career that spanned the 1980s, Haring’s work was featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. In 1986 alone, he was the subject of more than 40 newspaper and magazine articles. He was highly sought after to participate in collaborative projects ,and worked with artists and performers as diverse as Madonna, Grace Jones, Bill T. Jones, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol. By expressing universal concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, using a primacy of line and directness of message, Haring was able to attract a wide audience and assure the accessibility and staying power of his imagery, which has become a universally recognized visual language of the 20th century.

Keith Haring died of AIDS related complications at the age of 31 on February 16, 1990."

I know you are thinking...why are 5 year olds learning about this guy, a little much right? Our school is kind of an Art based school and well the kids are kind of baby Einsteins! Believe me they soak up this information like little sponges, they know more about Keith Haring and Vincent Van Gogh then the majority of the people reading this blog! no offence! They loved seeing the art gallery, and needless to say I loved seeing them see the art gallery!

What else is blog worthy...

My friend Jamie's dad is a christian pastor in Korea, actually I think kind of a famous pastor? His church has around 6,000 members and apparently in September there will be some kind of ceremony for him to become head of the dominon? Excuse me, for my lack of religious vocabulary! Anyways I went to their church and met him and his wife. They were very gracious and I would definitely like to go back just to see what a Korean church is like!

My week has been crazy hectic, I have parent teacher interviews starting tomorrow which is a bit nerve racking as I don't know what to expect. I have always been the child who didn't have to go to them. This is a true sign of my adulthood! haha. Tomorrow we are taking the children to a Korean Manners school, and believe me they could use some manners... haha, they will wear the traditional Korean garment, the hanbok. I am extremely excited to see how cute they will be! Talked to my brother Dallon today on the phone it was nice to hear from him and hear about his Vegas trip with his friends! Thats about all going on, its only hump day and I already can't wait for the weekend:)