{"id":28721,"date":"2016-08-29T15:34:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=28721"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:34:31","slug":"art-is-my-salvation-hart-house-art-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2016\/08\/29\/art-is-my-salvation-hart-house-art-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Art is my Salvation: Hart House Art Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week has been like swimming through a tank full of jellyfish \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nThis week has been a tough week for me. A lot has happened and a lot still remains to be going on. The majority of it has simply been personal, but sometimes personal obstacles are the ones that seem the most difficult. And in my opinion, rightly so, because to me personal battles are actually opportunities to grow in disguise.\r\n\r\nIn times of personal struggles, I have found that creativity and art are two things that ground me. Writing in a journal for instance, or even doodling in sketch pad. But sometimes inspiration to be creative doesn\u2019t come easily when faced with a mountain that needs to be overcome. In these times, I enjoy finding inspiration in the more traditional way: that is surrounding myself with art. And what better way to do this than by taking advantage of Hart House\u2019s free monthly Art Tour?\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSo here\u2019s a bit of a backgrounder on Hart House\u2019s art collection. It began in 1922 with the acquisition of A.Y. Jackson\u2019s \u201cGeorgian Bay\u201d. If you are a fan of Canadiana, then you\u2019ll know that a Canadian art gallery should at some point have a piece from the Group of Seven housed within its walls. Of course, different rules apply to more contemporary galleries, but what I\u2019m trying to get at is that this first acquisition was a significant one.\r\n\r\n60 years later, the Justina M. Barnicke gallery (the Art Museum in Hart House) decided it was time to build storage for their quickly growing art collections. Today this storage room holds over 700 pieces of art which has and currently is dictated by U of T students. Some of these pieces are well known in the international art community and some have even been dubbed \u201cNational Treasures\u201d!\r\n\r\n\"a<\/a>\r\n\r\nIf you decide to take the Hart House Art Tour you will be regaled with this story again, but at least you\u2019ll be able to get this in person and ask any searing questions you may have about what I\u2019ve just told you. In any case, when I last took the Art Tour I expected to be immersed in the Justina M. Barnicke gallery collection, looking at the works housed in there but surprisingly we were taken on a tour outside of the gallery.\r\n\r\nWhat was amazing about this is that I was given the background and new information about art pieces that I passed by regularly. This effectively made the times that I have spent and the times that I most likely will spend at Hart House even more significant. Knowing who the artists were who created these pieces as well as understanding the context of their creation makes observing each wall with a painting so much more fascinating, adding a new layer of depth to an already overly astonishing building.\r\n\r\nNot only that, but the tour was interactive. The discussions that stemmed from each work was enjoyable and provided new perspectives to each piece. In my opinion it brought a closeness to a group of strangers that is usually hard to come by. Though I most likely will never share a space with these individuals again, I can say that I have a fairly decent understanding of how they view the world based on how they viewed certain pieces, and I\u2019m sure they would say the same about me.\r\n\r\n\"a<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis Art Tour only happens on the last Tuesday of every month, and depending on your tour guide different pieces will be discussed. So this month the tour is scheduled for August 30, 2016. Meeting time is at 3 pm right at the hub. If you are interested to go on this tour or want more information check out what the Hart House website<\/a> has to say. I\u2019m pretty sure that I\u2019ll be going on this tour again and hopefully it will provide the grounding that I need to be collected as I continue climbing \u201cmy mountain\u201d.\r\n\r\nWhat are some ways that keep you collected when you are going through difficult moments? Leave me a comment a below!\r\n\r\n\"a<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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This week has been like swimming through a tank full of jellyfish \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nThis week has been a tough week for me. A lot has happened and a lot still remains to be going on. The majority of it has simply been personal, but sometimes personal obstacles are the ones that seem the most difficult. And in my opinion, rightly so, because to me personal battles are actually opportunities to grow in disguise.\r\n\r\nIn times of personal struggles, I have found that creativity and art are two things that ground me. Writing in a journal for instance, or even doodling in sketch pad. But sometimes inspiration to be creative doesn\u2019t come easily when faced with a mountain that needs to be overcome. In these times, I enjoy finding inspiration in the more traditional way: that is surrounding myself with art. And what better way to do this than by taking advantage of Hart House\u2019s free monthly Art Tour?\r\n\r\n
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