Photo of my friends and I at the National Fine Art’s Museum in Santiago, Chile. My freshman year my global class went on a trip to Chile, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I loved all of the art and museums and my classmates and I had even more fun imitating all of the art we liked. This group photo was a treasure for all of us.
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Global Week Nine
Image: A picture of the ocean taken by me in Santiago, Chile. On our trip to Chile we traveled to Santiago and Valparaiso. We met incredible people, visited amazing museums, and lived life changing experiences. I was extremely grateful that I had done so much reading and researching on Chile’s history and important figures in the world of art and poetry. My favorite museums were the Museo Violeta Parra and the Museo de Arte Precolombino. After doing an arpillera project in class, I gained a small understanding of the amount of time and effort and meaning that goes into making them and both museums had amazing sections of textiles that…
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Global Week One
This week in Global we read “Oyinbo” by Sarah Manyika. “Oyinbo” was a very thought provoking piece that summarized Manyika’s life and own struggle with her identity growing up. Manyika was born to a white mother and a black father, and her mixed heritage was a heavy factor in her identity. Throughout her story I began to see that identity is not strict, or rigid, and definitely not unchanging. Due to my American upbringing, I always unconsciously assumed from the way that people around me and in my country acted, that race was most important to a person’s identity. America has a long past with slavery and its effects are…
