Extra Credit #4 : Museo del Barrio, MUSEUM STARTER KIT: Open With Care
1. What do you think about Raphael Montañez Ortiz's mission to represent the Puerto-Rican-American and East Harlem community in a museum space? How is this presentation of art different that the story of modern art presented at MOMA (museum of modern art)?
I think Rapael Montanez Ortiz mission to represent the puerto rican american and east harlem community in this particular museum space is awesome to show a piece of the puerto rican community and east harlem community. This presentation of the museum is different from modern art at moma.
2. Pick one artwork in the museum, describing it physically and how it was made. How do the materials and the process communicate something about the community, culture, or neighborhood of East Harlem?
2. Pick one artwork in the museum, describing it physically and how it was made. How do the materials and the process communicate something about the community, culture, or neighborhood of East Harlem?
The materials and the process communicate something about the community culture because it's a bottle that is studded colorfully which represents the colorful community that puerto ricans are known for being loud and colorful.
3. Pick one object or group of objects that was provided by the community (non-artists). Describe if physically. Why you think the individual chose these objects, and what it represents about about their culture or neighborhood history?
There's a bunch of pictures showing the latina woman in all different period of times and it shows different types of women swell. I feel that the these objects represent about their neighborhood because it shows women doing different things and different times.
4. What do you think about this idea of asking the community to contribute objects that are important to them for the museum? Do you think that museum curation should be left to people with the training, should be totally crowd-sourced, or a combination of both?
I think it's very cool that the community contributed objects that are important to them for the museum because it shows what people think is important to them which is different to what other people consider important everyone thinks different it's cool to see how different everyone really is. I feel the museum curation should be left to a combination of both because the artist should be able to express how they feel and the crowd should get to see what they are interested in.
