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I went to Judith Hopf’s exhibit at the Hammer Museum for my final event. As soon as I walked in I saw numerous sculptures made up of brick and cement holding them together. I really appreciated how Hopf creates her sculptures with raw materials from the hardware store. This inspires me to believe that I can make beautiful sculptures. I found it interesting how each sculpture had a different finish. For example, the penguin sculpture (my favorite) had a very smooth body and beak but its arms seemed like they were hand molded. This sculpture looks like it took a lot of time to sand down and perfect. The feet look like they were chiseled into shape where you can see the air pockets in the feet which show dimension and depth. Penguin sculpture  Feet sculptures I found the ropes hanging In the corner of the room remarkable. It was a stark difference to the rigid brick and concrete I the center of the room. Ropes hanging from the

This week’s lectures were amongst the most interesting to me. As a child I always enjoyed watching The Jetsons. The Jetsons TV show has been around for just over 50 years, at the same time as the cold war. The Jetsons TV Show Characters I was too young at the time to understand that such technology actually existed and was improving day by day. The topic of space and art will continue to be a huge driving force in scientific advancements around the globe. As we learned this week, the Soviets launched Sputnik I in 1957 which made history by becoming the first artificial satellite (NASA.gov). Soon after Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut was sent into outer space and completed an orbit of the Earth (Wikipedia.org). Yuri Gagarin Neil Armstrong This prompted the USA to respond by sending Neil Armstrong to be the first human to physically walk on the moon (Wikipedia.org). All of this, to me, shows how us humans have been extremely interested and invested in the art