Violin Performance

Concurrently with my art show there was violin performance and exhibition by Suzuki Violin Studio run by my friend. Suzuki method of teaching kids playing violin seems pretty awesome - kids learn by playing games, singing songs and imitating adults playing violin. All kids that performed seemed to have a lot of fun, which I think is very important. Needless to say, I also had a lot of fun watching the kids perform. They were super-adorable and professional at the same time.


A few photos from the performance and violin exhibition:

My Photos at the Crocker Art Museum

I got incredibly lucky and got offered an amazing opportunity to showcase several of my photos at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. I decided to display five photos that I took in 2006 in Namibia. Not many people travel there, so I thought these photos would be of interest to a wider audience. Don't tell anybody, but I did not have a fancy SLR camera then and all of these photos were taken with a compact digital camera. Yet another proof that any camera can take museum-worthy photos.

Here are my photos and I in the museum:

With my extremely supportive husband:

Sacramento Crocker Art Museum

At the end of May a few of my photos were exhibited at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, giving me a chance to look at other art exhibited there. The Crocker is a typical small city American museum: it showcases everything from paintings to sculptures, from traditional to modern, from the US, as well as all over the world.

I was not too impressed with the traditional paintings in the museum (though Anil liked them), but I enjoyed several pieces of the contemporary art. I also liked the building in which the museum is located and I'll make sure to visit it again next time I'm near Sacramento.

A few artworks that I liked:

Alamogordo - Museum of Space History

Sadly, I would not recommend this museum to anybody. It is not bad, but there are many much better ones elsewhere (e.g. in San Diego and in Washington).

The two (small) highlights of our visit there were:
1) playing with sound enhancer located in the outdoor space park
2) trying to land a space shuttle using a simulator... Anil was much better at it than I was, but still, neither of us should really be an astronaut...

Here are a few pics:

Short history of space discovery:

Anil in a space shuttle simulator:

Trinity Site can be visited only on one specific day during the year, so I doubt that I will ever make it there. This will have to suffice:

The photo of the first monkey in the space: