Katie Ness

fun times

Posted by kn1179 on November 2nd, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

Yesterday was the annual art department trip to New York City, which turned out to be the BEST one yet. I absolutely love the city, the flurry of activity is a craved experience after months in Grantham and I always leave with some new ideas or inspirations for projects i’m currently working on. Roughly around 150 students go each year. You can pick whether you want to be dropped off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Museum Of Modern Art. All of us graphics kid swarmed the one headed to MOMA. MOMA houses the famous, prestigious Starry Night by Van Gogh and I think about twenty-five people were crowed around the rather small, 24 inch piece when I walked into its gallery space. A little too many to really enjoy the painting. There is such a phenomenal collection at the MOMA, but after about 2 and half hours we had decided we had seen enough and wandered out on the street to continue our day.

A group of us headed to NYCAMS…which is Bethel University’s study abroad program in New York, which a couple Messiah students have studied and presently are studying at. GO here to check out the program: NYCAMS But the best part of stopping there was that we hiked 12 stories of stairs to the top of the building and got a 360 view of the city. GORGEOUS…located in mid to lower Manhattan it had the perfect view of the empire state building and Chrysler building. I felt like I could have been part of the movie Across the Universe, during the final scene’s climax when Jude is performing on the roof!

Next a couple of us graphic design students headed to AIGA for the exhibit 50 books/50 covers. A showing of the years 50 best book cover designs. The exhibit was set up like a dinner party and each book considered the plate. You could sit down at the table, read through the book then move to the next. For my senior seminar class I had to conduct a phone interview with an artist/designer that I admired. I picked Helen Yentus who is a book cover artist located in Manhattan working for Random House. I was excited to find that four of her covers were featured at the AIGA exhibit! I stood before them, shocked, I had just spoken with her the week prior! I guess I didn’t completely realizing the magnitude of her work!

Then of course we took a little time to shop, because that is almost a must when visiting New York. Ironically enough, the three guys I walked around with ended up taking home the packages while I left the city with Nothing! shocking!

To conclude out night we ate at a great restaurant in little Italy and I was able to have gnocchi a potato/pasta type food that I haven’t eaten since I was served it by the nuns in Italy! and surprisingly it was just as delicious.

all is all it was a day of success and fun times, which I think would be echoed by the rest of the students