LACMA visit with teacher Jacob!

A group of students form Language Systems International,  Alhambra went on an excursion to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), lead by ESL/GRE-GMAT instructor Jacob Slingland, in order to experience one of L.A.'s landmark museums.

While at LACMA students explored  works of art by some of the most influential artist of the 20th century, such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinski and Jackson Pollock. Everyone enjoyed  inspiring examples of painting and sculpture in a variety of media. 

A few of which they experienced from within and even touched, such as Jesus Rafael Soto's Penetrable, which consists of hundred of suspended yellow tubes that the viewer is meant to touch, walk amongst and generally play with. While taking in some art everyone managed to take a selfie in front of the famous sculpture Urban Lights, by Chrish Burden, and even practiced a little English. 

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Hammer Museum Visit

On May 2nd, I met the students at the Hammer Museum at 11:30a.m. We checked everyone in, got name badges and started at the art gallery that housed the architecture exhibit. They loved it and took lots of photos :) Then at 12:30 we took a half an hour guided tour of the artist Pedro Reyes' People's United Nations. The Level 6 and 7 students enjoyed it and said they understood about 80-90% of what the guide was saying whereas the lower level students only got 20% of what was being said.

Getting ready to start a fun day at the Hammer Museum :)

The group grew exponentially by the time we started the People's UN tour 

By 1:15pm we ended up having lunch at two different restaurants, Denny's (for students who just wanted to have milkshakes and ice cream) and Panini Cafe (for students who wanted something proper) hahaha. We finished at the restaurants around 3:00pm. It took forever to take orders and then get everyone separate checks. 

After lunch I gave the students the options of either calling it a day or going back with me to the museum. 12 students chose to go back while the others decided to go to Santa Monica. We finished at the museum at around 4:10pm. It was so much fun!!! 

Sushant (#DTLAcampus)

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