Mondays with MoMA

Step 1 Step 3
Look closely Activity: Shrine for support
Questions Materials: objects of personal significance
1. What materials and objects do
you notice? 1. Take a few minutes to connect to a
2. What do you notice about how time when you overcame a challenge in
the objects are arranged? your life.
3. What questions do you have about 2. As you are thinking about this, think of
this artwork? sounds or songs that helped you
through this time and provided a sense
Step 2 of grounding or strength.
Learn more 3. Gather any objects that are
connected to this significant
Disease Thrower #5 is a sculpture, shrine, experience.
healing instrument, and headdress. It is 4. Find a special place (a box, a corner
made up of personal and ritual objects and of a room, or any surface) that you can
is activated by sound when the large easily access. Arrange the gathered
circular gong at the top of the piece is objects in a way that best represents
struck. This artwork is part of an exhibition the thoughts and feelings from that
called Luz y fuerza (Hope and Strength). time.
5. You can visit this shrine, interact
When the artist, Guadalupe Maravilla, was with the objects, and play your
overcoming cancer, in addition to western sound or song whenever you need
medicine, he experimented with traditional support or healing.
healing techniques including sound baths, 6. You can add to your shrine as you
which use vibrational instruments to have new experiences and discover
create therapeutic sound waves. Maravilla new ways of overcoming challenges.
decided if he survived, he would learn how
to play gongs and share the sounds with Step 4
others. “Having audiences come to my Share!
sound baths and learning about how sound
can be medicine is something that I think is Share your shrine with a friend or family
really important. But also, to me, what's member. Or you can email it to us at
really exciting is that some people can walk MoMA: schoolprograms@moma.org.
away without even listening to the work
and feel very fulfilled by experiencing the Watch Guadalupe Maravilla’s sound baths:
work as sculpture.” https://art21.org/watch/new-york-close-u
p/guadalupe-maravilla-the-sound-of-heali
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lead partner of education.

Generous support for School and Teacher

Programs is provided by the Carroll and Milton
Petrie Education Program Endowment, the William
Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund, and the Mimi
and Peter Haas Endowment Fund for Elementary
School Programs.

Additional funding is provided by the

Ducommun and Gross Family Foundation and by
I re, cotton, wood, plastic, loofah, paint, straw, Florida Water,
m and objects collected from a ritual retracing the artist's
a original migration route. © Guadalupe Maravilla. Fund for
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