Trash
Floating on Cloud 619
By Albert Songalia at October 7, 2011 | 8:15 am | 13 Comments
Hi folks! This is your friendly neighborhood artist and museum facilitator, Albert Songalia, back again to give you the new happenings here in The New Children’s Museum. It’s been a busy, crazy week here at the museum. We got a lot of our TRASH artists coming in to work on their art for the exhibit [...]
more...Beauty in the Beast
By Albert Songalia at October 4, 2011 | 7:57 pm | 11 Comments
Hi everybody, this is Albert Songalia, artist extraordinaire, rockin’ museum facilitator, and hardcore penguin fan, back again to give you the skinny on what’s been going on at The New Children’s Museum. We have some color changes in the exhibit. The first set of colors you may notice is the black and yellow on the [...]
more...Jane Clifford Talkin’ Trash
By Jane Clifford at October 1, 2011 | 6:15 pm | 17 Comments
In two weeks, the museum will open a new exhibition. The focus is trash. It’s not always a pleasant subject. Maybe that’s why we avoid thinking about it. The only time we do is when it’s time to get it to the curb. Well, that has to change. Yes, we know that. It’s been drummed [...]
more...On the Go: October Calendar
By Jane Clifford at October 1, 2011 | 3:36 pm | 14 Comments
TRASH Exhibition and Block Party — Of course, the first recommendation is to visit The New Children’s Museum on Oct. 15-16 to enjoy an all-new exhibition during two days of free family activities, block-party style. The street around the museum, at 200 West Island Ave., in downtown San Diego will closed off for the fun. [...]
more...Entertainment: Waste Land
By Jane Clifford at October 1, 2011 | 8:01 am | 29 Comments
It may not be the easiest film to watch, at first, but “Waste Land” is an eye-opening and uplifting look at one artist’s dedication to an issue. The multi-award-winning documentary was directed by Lucy Walker, who followed renowned artist Vik Muniz (above) as he journeyed from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil [...]
more...Entertainment, Featured, Trash, Tweens & Teens, Whats Happenin'
Oscar the Grouch on Trash
By Jane Clifford at October 1, 2011 | 7:35 am | 0 Comment
Welcome to our Q&A with the experts. For October, the topic coincides with the opening of the museum’s new exhibition on trash. What better “spokesman” on the subject than Oscar, the resident grouch on Sesame Street, whose home is a trash can. He has an, uh, appreciation for trash, as you can see here: But [...]
more...Farewell ANIMAL ART, Hello TRASH
By Albert Songalia at September 20, 2011 | 9:04 am | 18 Comments
First off, I would just like to say hi and hello to you all. My name is Albert Songalia, aka Penguino. I’ve been an employee of The New Children’s Museum for over three fun years, working as a Museum Guide and Facilitator, and, on occasion, as an artist and camp artist for this lovely organization. [...]
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