Thinking about Maya Lin, environmental messages are really important to her, but so is the beauty and form and pattern of water itself. “We always have an art making component, so something hands-on. It is basically interpretation and hands-on,” said Matthews. “ Art Lab is our education gallery space where we take the main themes in the big ideas from our current exhibitions and break them down. Truly Matthews, assistant director of education and engagement at Virginia MOCA, shares about the development of ART Lab and the purpose that it serves as an exhibition space. It serves as an educational space to learn about local conservation programs and environmental concepts. ‘ART Lab’ invites everyone to explore techniques that Maya Lin practiced in creating her artwork pieces. “Her pieces take a complicated idea and put it into a visual form that you can just very quickly understand,” said Babbitt.Īfter viewing ‘Maya Lin: A Study of Water,’ guests can engage in the ‘ART Lab’ that is an interactive gallery space for all ages to enjoy designed by the education team at Virginia MOCA. She uses art to take these really complex ideas and simplify them.” The other thing is, humans, we’re very visual creatures. The implications of water highlighted in the exhibition depicts its necessity, accessibility, scarcity, and abundance.īabbitt added, “She has gone on to do so much work raising awareness around the environment and using her art to create those conversations and keep people talking about it. Each piece highlights the artistic forms of global and regional waterscapes across time that urges practices for ecological balance. The ‘Silver Chesapeake’ (2009) featured in the collection consists of Lin’s recycled silver. The featured works are composed of water droplets made of glass, icebergs made of plaster, riverways made of steel pins and waves made of wood. Her artwork representations of water in various media embodies sustainability through using recycled and reused materials. Maya Lin’s environmentally-focused artistic work looks at water in many forms and patterns, including rivers and rising tides, icebergs and the decline of their melting poses. We’re a community center, and we use art to create community conversation on topics that are relevant to our area,” said Babbitt. My favorite part about working here, and why I just love this mission so much is that we were not just an art museum. “At Virginia MOCA, part of our mission is we’re locally relevant and nationally resonant. Virginia MOCA deputy director of institutional advancement and VWU ’00 alumnus, Homer Babbitt, shares about his passion of working at VA MOCA and their mission. Virginia MOCA seeks to raise conservation consciousness in Hampton Roads by featuring two environmentally focused exhibitions: ‘Maya Lin: A Study of Water’ and ‘Open (C)all: What is Missing’. The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is an accredited, non-collecting contemporary art museum at the Oceanfront.
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