Night at the Museum

Your Reflections

This page compiles your reflections on art, community, museums, and more, informed by your time at Night at the Museum.

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  • Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)

    Niagara by Louis Rémy Mignot jumped out of the canvas. The painting felt so real to me that it appealed to all my senses. I felt like I was standing at the edge of the huge Niagara Falls with the wind and salt water rushing across my face. I could hear the sounds of the crashing waves and smell the sea. The realism of the painting helped me connect my emotions and senses to the art.

    Simona Pitterman

    Hunter College

  • Compare how this experience reinforced or challenged your previous ideas about museums. Would you encourage other Macaulay students to visit museums?

    Today’s night at the museum greatly reinforced my ideas about museums. Prior to tonight I had already thought that museums were a great place to expose yourself to other cultures, history, and just things that you would never typically see. Today helped reinforce this by adding another layer to museums, which is a social aspect. I was in a group with someone from my cohort that I did not regularly interact with and I used the museum to connect with them and share our perspectives together. This showed me that museums are not only a place to expose yourself to art and artifacts but to also socialize and share ideas in the same space.

    Isaac Amouzou

    John Jay College of Criminal Justice

  • Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)

    I liked the art piece titled “Web of Life”. I’ve been thinking a lot about the circle of life and the way the universe controls things beyond our reach. Humans are not completely self sufficient beings and we rely on the environment to keep us alive and moving. This artwork captures what it means to be a human moving in cycles with the seasons and changes of the earth.

    Michelle Nisimov

    John Jay College of Criminal Justice

  • Compare how this experience reinforced or challenged your previous ideas about museums. Would you encourage other Macaulay students to visit museums?

    This reinforced the idea that museums allow you to see a version of yourself in the art presented. I would 100% encourage Macaulay students to visit museums often because as intellectual scholars, we have the responsibility of immersing ourselves in other cultures, worlds, and experiences. That includes seeing ourselves in art made by people with different lives, which is exactly what a museum provides.

    John Jay College of Criminal Justice

  • Where and how do you see yourself, your communities, and/or New Yorkers in this museum?

    I see it reflected in many ways. I believe New York is a collection of different heritages: from the colonialism that shaped how we think about nature to the indeginous identities that might not show but millions of the new yorkers who are latín american and nativa american carries. That is what believe this exposición does best: a saturation on culture Messy enough that it matches how messy the history of a place like the americas is.

    Leon Villagran

    Hunter College

  • Where and how do you see yourself, your communities, and/or New Yorkers in this museum?

    I see New York not only in the art pieces but in the choices made by people like me, New Yorkers to exhibit under represented art. New York is the capital of diversity and this can be seen by the curators choice to not have one focus but rather represent different cultures.

    Eli jacobson

    Hunter College

  • Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)

    The piece of artwork that invoked strong feelings for me is Heat 1919 by Florine Stettheimer American,
    (1771-1944.) The piece of artwork stood out to me the most because of the way the artist drew each person.
    The artist were all sitting in different position each doing their own thing, yet their all sharing a space. It made me feel a connection with my Personal life because that be happening with me and my friends.
    We will hang out together in my house but all be doing our own things. The painting became reletable

    Kadiatou Diallo

    City College

  • Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)

    Immediately when I got out of the elevator and walked into the first room, the first thing that caught my eye was the Niagara fall. This is called “Niagara”, an oil on canvas by Louis Remy Mignot. The vibrant colors and details of the waterfall grasp my eyes to look at it and walk closer and closer to it. This piece of art invoked strong feelings of my very first trip with my whole family and relatives. Even though I was sick on the trip, I still recalled the roaring falls just like what the description of this painting said “terrifying power of nature”.

    Irene Wu

    College of Staten Island

  • How would you relate your current major or field of study to your experience at Night at the Museum? What connections can you see?

    I can relate my current (intended) major to my experience at Night at the Museum in a few ways. I am planning to major in Television and Radio, and being in a media-related major requires a lot of analysis skills when it comes to art. Film is largely about using all elements of art to create a cohesive set of images, and in the Brooklyn Museum, each room has a cohesive set of art pieces that allows the eye to glide around the area. Museums such as the Brooklyn Museum are also great places to gain inspiration for our own art as students, and this trip was an example of that.

    Olive Treadwell

    Brooklyn College

  • Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)

    The piece of artwork that invoked strong feelings for me is Heat 1919 by Florine Stettheimer American,
    (1771-1944.) The piece of artwork stood out to me the most because of the way the artist drew each person.
    The artist were all sitting in different position each doing their own thing, yet their all sharing a space. It made me feel a connection with my Personal life because that be happening with me and my friends.
    We will hang out together in my house but all be doing our own things. The painting became reletable

    Kadiatou Diallo

    City College