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Find Your Feelings

For the following exercise, you will be using artworks from the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College eMuseum. Use the questions below to guide your exploration of the online collection.

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Exercise

1. How are you feeling today? Find an artwork in the eMuseum that elicits that feeling.

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What components do you see in the artwork that make you connect it to that feeling?

2. Think of a favorite memory. Reflect on that memory in two or three sentences, then find an artwork in eMuseum that connects to the memory.

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What do you see in the artwork that connects it to your memory?

3. Find an artwork that you find appealing. Create a new title for that work.

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New Title:

What do you see in the artwork that inspired your new title?

4. Find an artwork in which you would like to live.

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Why would you choose to live inside this piece? What might your life be like living inside the setting presented in the work of art?

5. If you had to pick an artwork in eMuseum as a screen saver, which would you choose?

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Why would you like to see that artwork every time you are on your device?

Remember – you can save these works of art in your own eMuseum collection.

Image: Arroyo Near Tesuque (detail), Willard Ayer Nash