Museum Visit

I really enjoyed going to the museum today and looking at both exibits. The narrative that intrigued me most in the first exibit was about Chita Rivera. She was a dancer and it listed many of her performances and successful career. She was the principal dancer in the musical "Call me madam" and was also lead characters in West Side Story, Bye bye Birdie, and Chicago (just to name a few). I have been a dancer my entire life so I think I found it interesting becuase you do not hear a lot about Spanish dancers dancing in main stream shows and companies. That is why I was so drawn to this piece.

In addition, I found the Mali exhibit to be very interesting as well. I thought that the captions told a very interesting and needed story by this youth and even though they were very simple and brief, they told quite a lot about their social cultures. I thought the Bofohan, Kouara Village photograph really caught my attention because it was of a little girl in a huge chair. She was just very cute and the caption was simple, explaining that it was a young boy's sister. The other piece that caught my attention was the one of a woman who had just given birth. I had not made it over to this photograph yet and Bri pointed out the caption to me. It said that she had just given birth and was cleaning the baby's belly button with rubbing alcohol and rubbing its body with shea butter. It explained that after that hopefully the baby would fall asleep so the mom could go do chores and work. I cannot believe that after this woman had a baby she would be expected to do household chores. It exposed me to a completely different culture that I never knew existed. That is why I like this exhibit in general and the museum experience as a whole.