Correction on my last blog: it was the 8th week of classes. Tomorrow, the 7th of March, will start the 9th week.
This past Friday, I traveled with the BPMI club up to Rochester, MN, to visit Mayo Clinic and Minneapolis, MN, to the Belle Museum. I left my place at 5:00 am, and after our professor arrived about 10 minutes past the scheduled leaving time, we hit the road in a 15 passenger van and a car. At Mayo Clinic, we met with the medical illustration staff, toured some of the facilities, and had an artwork show-and-tell amongst the illustrators and us. It was interesting and I definitely understand the importance of medical illustration, but I don't want to be a medical illustrator or animator.
Another couple hours of driving and getting lost (those in charge printed off Google directions but did not bring a map of Minnesota so we ran into some problems when we missed the exit), we arrived at the Belle Museum, a natural history museum with lots of dioramas which I really enjoyed. Some of them were a little outdated, but the excitement I felt when looking at the moose standing mid-step in a muddy bank vs. the the "meh" attitude at Mayo shows that a job as a museum exhibit fabricator would be a much better fit for me. I love how dioramas create these little worlds with an overall visual impact, and then once you get closer, you start to notice all of the tiny details- the grasshopper at the base of the prairie grass, the colors of the leaves painted on the background.
Any way, after that, we went to a restaurant near there for dinner before arriving back in Iowa around 11:00. It was a long day with over 8 hours of driving. I guess it was good practice for my spring break trip down to New Mexico. Our college church group leaves early Saturday afternoon, and we will drive until the next morning so we do not have to stay overnight somewhere.
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