Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

Acclaimed film director Julie Dash worked with six area high school students over the course of their participation in the IMA’s Museum Apprentice Program to produce short films featured in the exhibition Smuggling Daydreams into Reality: Yesterday, Today and Forever.

The exhibition opened Saturday and runs through January 18, 2010 in the IMA’s Star Studio. I spent my Tuesday lunch in the exhibition. The students’ video works and the film documenting the process with Dash drew me in. I was also tempted to add my own daydream to an IMA Flickr set shown in the exhibition as a slideshow. But my stomach was growling so I’ll have to go back.

I was delighted to sit down with Julie for a quick chat earlier this year.

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The IMA Blog team welcomes New York-based artist Orly Genger as a guest blogger.  We asked her to share some thoughts on her IMA exhibition, Whole.

I’m obsessed with making something that matters. I’m obsessed with working. And I believe that it is only through hard work that good work is made.

One of the most important things to me has always been to keep my hands moving, to keep making things. I worry about what I make and what it means after I make it.  I also used to think that talking about art, especially your own art, ruins it. That’s partly why I dropped out of art school. But I’ve softened on that in recent years, which is maybe a result of having gone to art school. I do talk here and there about my work and hope it won’t ruin anything, but instead reveal a bit about the way I’m thinking, at least in the moment.

Overhead shot of "Whole"

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It’s been awhile since I’ve rambled on about some projects, so I felt like the time was right to do so.  Today.  I have a lot of favorite things I like, but occasionally, I’m able to nail that down to a specific numeron uno – like a favorite dinosaur, car, airline or tie knot.  So when considering the amount of social networking sites today, I always, always point to Flickr.  I love Flickr.

Danny Beyer, sporting the new IMA Blog t-shirt

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