WELCOME

Welcome to the Urban Culture course at Avila University created by Susan Lawlor and Dotty Hamilton.  We travel with our students to great cities to explore art museums, engage with the architecture, study the local film and music venues, and experience the ethnic enclaves as a way to learn about the culture of urban spaces and the interaction of art and environment.  It's a fun, intense learning environment.  

Thursday, May 20, 2010

The Contemporary and Puck's


I love the Contemporary.  We had a wonderful tour with Hayley, who raised interesting questions such as 'What is Art for - social commentary? Museum display? or pretty paintings on your wall?'  The content of the artwork we saw was about identity - gender, racial - and political commentary about politics, war and power.  
So after that heady stuff, we had lunch at Wolfgang Puck's  - a lovely space in a beautiful museum.   The tour and the lunch were sponsored by a generous Avila alum, Jeanne Olofson, who has the good taste to reside here in Chicago.
After that?  Free time:  shopping, Navy Pier, Hull House, and whatever else the students could think of...

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