Young Women Museum Trip

Our activity for young women this evening was a trip to the Springville Art Museum. I made a scavenger hunt for the girls based on my previous trip with Brenda. We turned the girls loose and let them wander the museum on their own, but at the end gathered together and had each of the girls show us their favorite work of art and tell us why they liked it. It was fun to see what they were drawn to. I like serving with the young women in our ward, and I like serving with my advisors too. 

Hazel Davis, me, Rachel, Ashely, and Lizzie Jensen, Kate Seamons, 

Mia Thornock, Rebekah Stovall, Janie Rasmussen, Ada Bushman

Art Ball, Salon 100 Prom

Brent and Brenda got tickets to the Springville Art Museum's annual Spring Salon Art Ball. Brent ended up having to be away, so Brenda invited me to accompany her. I readily agreed as I love the Spring Art Museum, I love the Spring Salon, and a love a ball. I don't go to many balls, but it was an offer I had no desire to refuse. 

Brenda and I met up with some friends of theirs from Virginia (I think) and wandered around the museum as we waited our turn to get dinner. There were some really terrific pieces. I also like to select one or two I would buy if money were no object, and I found several I quite liked. Below is one I would have selected. It is by the artist Rebecca Klundt and is called God's Good Cup. The picture has a poem attached to it that reads, 

God's Good Cup

Pours Our Light

on a Soul as Black as Night

I see each of those blocks as blessings God is pouring out on each of us, even if life feels dark and hard. There is an abundance to overflowing, a continual shower of goodness from a loving Father in Heaven. Visually, I just love it.  

 

On the upper floor of the museum, they had an exhibit of works the museum had purchased during each decade of the last 100 years. Brent and Brenda had several of them that they borrowed when they were living in Taiwan that hung in their residence. They were really terrific too. It was fun to learn about the history of the Spring Salon and feel cultured. Dinner was delicious, the conversation stimulating, and to cap it all off, there was gelato being served in the basement and we got there when there wasn't a line. While we did not dance, we did poke our heads into the gym next to the museum that was part of the school that the museum was created from. Very little has been done to the gym in what seems like 50 years. It would be a great venue to film a movie set in the 60s. It was a super fun evening and I was delighted Brenda invited me. Maybe we can go again next year with our husbands.

Spring Salon--in the Summer

Since April, Kent and I have wanted to go see the Spring Salon at the Springville Art Museum.  We have put it on the schedule, only to have it displaced by other, more pressing things.  But the show ends Friday, and if we wanted to see it, we needed to go.  So tonight we did.  On Wednesdays, the museum is having what they are calling "Art Buffet," a come-and-make-your-own-art table for kids and grown-ups alike.  While the kids made flowers, Kent and I wandered around and looked at art.  Blythe wanted to make sure I was within viewing distance, and she wanted help (both unnecessary), so I looked at art in two adjoining galleries.  There was some pretty fun stuff this year.  Kent and I always play "Which piece of art should we buy?" just to see if we agree on anything.  This year, we didn't.

Flower creation

On the bottom floor of the museum, there is a super fun "Family Vacation" exhibit, hearkening back to family travel in the 60s.  This exhibit was geared towards children and had lots of interactive activities.  Unfortunately, my camera battery died so I got all of two pictures.  I probably would have taken 10 or so.  There was a little diner with menus and food, a "find the price" of common items 50 years ago board, and a photo booth with Delicate Arch as the backdrop.  The kids were delighted with the diner and served us meal after meal.  We took a picture of us in front of the arch, but it was with Kent's phone and it didn't really turn out.  It was a fun evening.

I got the two leg drumstick chicken dinner, and Kent got the pizza/hotdog/chips meal.