The Lower East Side Girls Club went to the Essex Street Market. Then, we took pictures & then went to a gallery called “Cuchifritos”. It had this amazing art & the art work seemed so thought about & took time to make. Even though there was noise from the store next door & they were ruining our interview with Felicity Hogan. I just loved the art work that looked like the artists put their heart into it. I would totally recommend it to my family & my adult friends.

Xoxo

Pnyessa

With the girls club, we went to this art place located on second street. It is called Kenkeleba & it has specialized in African-American work. There was beautiful work that the had worked on & I liked what I saw. The art amazed me & I was glad that I had went. The woman that told us each piece, Corrine Jennings, is the gallery owner & curator. She was also the curator of Abstraction Plus Abstraction that was located right across the street. She said her husband had done one art work, but I loved it all. There was one painting that was my favorite, but I did not get a photo of it. I would totally recommend it to you.

Love,

Pnyessa

The International Center of Photography was a great photographic place. It had very interesting photos which caught my eye. I was stood in front of the photo for a few minutes and looked to understand the pictures. I liked it very much and a few years ago I wanted to come to this school! I wanted to become a photographer and I loved to take pictures. To enter this school felt cool because I wanted to come here, I passed it a few times, and I wanted to at least enter and look through. And I got to and I was amazed at the photographers and photos. The ideas and the way these photographers took these pictures and put these up. The curator, Kristen Lubben, the woman we interviewed put these photos up [and made books] on the walls of the school. She was amazing and what she did made her sound very unique. People were amazed by her and wanted to be her. :]

The Jumeirah Essex House looked so beautiful with the artwork.The hotel itself was high class and it made the artwork look worth more. The entrance to the hotel was intriguing because of the doorman and the perfect-looking vases of flowers with the two pictures of Central Park on each side. There was a hallway which lead you to the event space where the photographs were on display. Before heading to the exhibit, there were shops in the hallway. One was jewelry store that had beautiful earrings, rings, necklaces, etc. There was even a ring that was $220,000!!
The other shop was selling items that you can buy and put in your home. The exhibit displaying the photographs looked like a place where you could throw a quiet party with family/friends where everyone drinks champagne and red wine with small food that waiters would walk around having it on a tray. The hotel was mind-blowing and really amazing to me. We interviewed, Jennifer Tripp, from Magnum, curator of the photographs in the art room. She said the hotel was about $400 a night. Phew!