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Carnegie Visual Arts Center

  • March 24, 2006
  • Rated 2 of 5 by NiteOwlTX from LaPlace, Louisiana
Carnegie Visual Arts Center

The Carnegie Visual Arts Center is located in the historic part of Decatur. It occupies one of the cities most historic buildings.

The center is essentially a museum of fine art for a group that funds local contributors. When I visited the area, the museum was hosting two exhibits. The first was an art contest for children under 12; as you can imagine, this was a waste of my time.

The other exhibit was the story boards of the Anne Frank Diary. For those of you who are unaware, Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl, who lived in hiding in pre-WWII Amsterdam, Holland. She spent over two years in the secret rooms to her father's office before she and her family were found by the Nazi's and sent to concentration camps. Her diaries were discovered in this hiding place long after her death, but they remain the best insight into the Jewish side of Nazi control that we have today.

This is actually the second time I saw this same exhibit, as it toured through Houston over five years ago. I did enjoy the exhibit, as a chance to re-familiarize myself on the story.

Except for the Anne Frank story, which I had seen five years before in another museum, I was not impressed with this attraction. Comparing a small town art museum to one in a large metropolitan area is like comparing community theatre to a Broadway preformance; it might be entertaining, but it does stack up to the real thing.

I recommend a trip to the Carnegie Visual Arts Center for anyone interested in art or for students learning the visual arts. Also, if you call ahead, you might find some significant exhibits here (with a little luck).

From journal A Hard Nut to Crack

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