S-ART-urday (1Canoe2 on Etsy)

1Canoe2 is a best friend duo from Missouri.  Carrie Shryock and Beth Snyder create letterpress works from a big red barn in Missouri.  Read more about their process and their journey as friends here.  Check out some of my favorites from their print collections:

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I seem to have a trend going of liking prints from various states.  

NYC

TX

Alphabet

Betty the Librarian

Let's Go Ride Bikes

Home Sweet Home

 View previous S-ART-urday posts: DIY Paint Chips, Tom Slaughter, Eric Carle, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Mattin, Chuck Close, Robert Rauschenberg

Washington D.C. Part 2

Here are more photos from my day in Washington, D.C. For a girl that wants to work in a museum one day, I was seriously in heaven.

Flight attendant uniforms
at the Air and Space Museum

John Glenn's space suit

"I have a feeling that there is just one more flight in my system."  -  Amelia Earhart, June 1, 1937 before what would become her last flight.  

Woolworth's lunch counter from Greensboro, NC sit-ins

World War II canning poster at NMAH

NMAH

JFK's inauguration

Filing cabinet broken into at Watergate at NMAH 

Berlin Wall at NMAH

Library of Congress

Creating the United States

Hope for America: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture

Hope for America jukebox

Above is a screen shot of a jukebox from the Library of Congress politics and pop culture exhibit that played songs about political or social issues.  I listened to snippets of a lot of my favorites from the 1960s and 1970s, but played this entire song in honor of my mom, who introduced me to Aretha when I was just a young little thing.

Baltimore and D.C. Part 1

My last stop in my tour of the northeast over spring break was Baltimore to visit my longtime friend Liza.  We have been friends since 1st grade.  Unfortunately, Liza found out the day of my arrival that she had to go to Florida for the weekend for work.  Her lovely roommates, Ellie and Eleana, were gracious enough to host me for the rest of the weekend.

Laura, me and Liza circa 1996

Liza, me and Laura - 2007 Senior Prom 

Laura, Liza, Krista, me and Allie - Christmas 2010

Since we had a change of plans, I decided to go to D.C. during the day on Saturday and hopped on the train early in the morning and returned to Baltimore that evening.  Trying to squeeze everything I wanted to see into one day was a challenge I did not meet. What better excuse for a return trip though - on a weekend that Liza is home! This is what I did see:

U.S. Capitol

National Archives

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

World War II Memorial

World War II Memorial

World War II Memorial

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Lincoln Memorial 

Librarian Twitter Bingo

These topics are spot on. The dominate my Facebook wall and Twitter feed. 

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Monday musings

I know no one looks forward to Mondays, especially after a weekend with gorgeous weather and lots of down time.  Here is some inspiration to get you through the day..eh, week if you need it.

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S-ART-urday (Robert Rauschenberg)

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was born in Port Arthur, Texas and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II.  For a brief period, he used the GI Bill to study art in Paris, but moved to North Carolina after less than a year. He moved to chaotic and exciting New York after North Carolina and became truly inspired.  Not really belonging to any one movement, he rejected the Abstract Expressionists and embraced popular culture and non-traditional materials.  In 1997, the Guggenheim Museum organized the most comprehensive exhibition of his works ever.  Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective featured nearly 300 works.  Rauschenberg died from heart failure on May 12, 2008.  

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Find out more about Erased de Kooning (1953), Rauschenberg's work created by erasing a work created by Willem de Kooning.  

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Bed, 1955, is one of Rauschenberg's first combines. This mixed media piece was on view during my trip to MoMA last week. It is oil and pencil on an his actual pillow, sheet, and quilt.

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This piece, Untitled (Asheville Citizen), was made from two canvases, matte black paint, and a piece of the August 3, 1951 Asheville Citizen newspaper. Asheville is near Black Mountain College, an experimental arts college with professors like Josef Albers, where Rauschenberg was a student during the late 1940s and early 1950s.   It is reminiscent of Mark Rothko. This was on view as well during my visit.

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Signs, 1970, is a silkscreen print that really sums up the 1960s through an assemblage of various clippings. Images include U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Janis Joplin, Martin Luther King, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.  According to Rauschenberg, Signs was "conceived to remind us of love, terror, violence of the last ten years. Danger lies in forgetting."

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Lotus Bed I from The Lotus Series, a 2008 series of twelve digital prints.  View more of his prints here.

View previous S-ART-urday posts: DIY Paint Chips, Tom Slaughter, Eric Carle, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Mattin, Chuck Close

D.C. Sneak Peak

The photo on the right is a coffee table at the National Museum of American History.  When I saw AnneMarie's post this morning, I immediately thought of the similarities between these two images: their colors and statements.

NMAH

This exhibit featured photos, posters, and newspaper clippings from the 1960s.  I found the juxtaposition of the My Lai Massacre and the Woodstock poster promoting peace interesting.

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More D.C. photos to come!

Read all the posts about my spring break trips: New York 1, New York 2, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. 1

Did you take any fun trips recently? Tell me about it! 

All photos are my own unless credited otherwise.All images appearing on this blog that were taken by the author are exclusive property of Jamie Burke.  Reproduction with permission only.  

Philadelphia

In Philadelphia America was born and raised 

On the Founder's playground is where I spent most of my days 

Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool

Spending my weekend with Holly Poole 

Ok, that was my incredibly cheesy homage to West Philadelphia's own Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Now I'll leave all the words up to the photos:

City Hall

Happy 100th birthday Girl Scouts!

Beatles' themed souvenir t-shirt

Constitution was signed in this room in Independence Hall

Independence Hall

  

View of Philadelphia from Philadelphia Museum of Art 

Read all the posts about my spring break trips: New York 1, New York 2, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. 1

Have you ever been to Philadelphia? What was your favorite part? 


All photos are my own unless credited otherwise.All images appearing on this blog that were taken by the author are exclusive property of Jamie Burke.  Reproduction with permission only.