The "Kemper"

This past Saturday our family visited the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. I think it's a great museum to take smaller children, because it's smallish (four rooms total), never very crowded, frequently has a new visiting artist on display (NOT the actual artist, but his/her work), and it's FREE! We go there as often as we can. Currently, a photographer by the name of Stephen Shore has a rather extensive Autobiographical Landscape exhibit showing at the Kemper. His work is fascinating. He photographed all these things that should be perfectly ordinary, but by using light, positioning, and other artistic mumbo jumbo, Mr. Shore made these ordinary things beautiful. I really enjoyed it...heck even my 18 month old liked it. I bet you would too. Take the family. It's a good time. www.kemperart.org. Oh yeah, the picture to the left is by Stephen Shore. It's entitled U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973, and is from Uncommon Places, Aspect One, 1973. It was my husband's favorite. There were a couple photos of some mountains in Montana that really stood out to me.