Proposal to the board of directors of Denver Art Museum

Proposal to the board of directors of Denver Art Museum

Project title: Proposal to the board of directors of Denver Art Museum

Artist: Rodger Shimomura

Venue: Gallery One

Exhibition type: Solo

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Introduction

The Denver Art Museum is located at Colorado, in the city of Denver in its Civic Centre. The Denver Art Museum boasts an art collection which along with Indian American Artwork includes over 68,000 more pieces of art excellence from all over the globe.

It has nine curatorial departments, namely Asian art; architecture, design & graphics; painting and sculpture (European and American); photography; Western art; and textile art; New World (pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial); modern and contemporary and native arts (American Indian, Oceanic, and African).

Museums make it a point to display a variety of different art, architecture or cultural artifacts, all of them which possess a historical or cultural value. As mentioned above, there are above 68,000 pieces of artworks in the Museum. However, that does not mean that any modern works of art that are created by yet 'undiscovered' new talent, should not be show-cased if they are worthy. As times as progressing, we are able to witness more and more artworks based on established design for instance, Rothko or Monets' style of artworks; there are more and more new styles of art being explored and work on every day.

Some artists created artworks that exist only for the sake of arts. Aside from being a piece of décor, the artwork has no value, while others create it in order to impart an underlying message. My selected candidate, Rodge Shimomura, is one of the artists, who paint for a reason and not just for the sake of art. His artworks are based on the traditional Japanese art style, but all of them also possess a meaning or message in them. These artworks, act like a platform for the artists to express his opinions to all the people who view his artworks.

Also, because of his unique Japanese heritage, the exhibition of his work could help promote the Denver Museum as the only which promotes Japan-American relationships.

Biography of Rodger Shimomura

Rodger Shimomura was born in the year 1939 inside the Central District of Seattle; he spent the first few years of his life with his family at the Puyallup State Fairgrounds, at that time the government of United States was building permanent camps to accommodate the refuges and immigrants that have arrived in the United States. Once the project was completed Rodger Shimomura along with his family members moved to the Minidoka camp, that were located in the southern Idaho. Among his family members his father was the first person to leave as asked by the administrators to search for a job outside the western coast. Once after the father of Rodger Shimomura found a permanent job, afterwards Rodger Shimomura along with his family settled down in Southern Chicago. Once, the war ended Rodger Shimomura along with all of his family members returned back to ...