Title: Mooseum District Cow Location: Contemporary Arts Museum: Bissonnet and Montrose Artist: The Children of Museum District Day 2001 L. A. Holloman Sponsor: EOG Resources, Inc. The Mooseum District Cow was the brainchild of Holloman’s collaborator, Katy Butterwick. Butterwick thought it would be fun to have a cow for children to paint on Museum District Day. The cow was covered with simplified drawings of the museum’s facades and other decorative elements in a “color-book” style. It was placed in front of the Contemporary Arts Museum and children were invited to come complete the cow by painting in the shapes. Holloman explains, “As a very young child, I loved coloring books. When I filled them up, I would make my own, and fill those up too. I never made a connection between what I was doing and making art until my family moved to Houston and I saw the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the first time. It is the hope of Katy and myself that children, visiting the museums on Museum District Day – some perhaps for the first time-will work on the cow and realize the same connection. Making art is important. It fosters a creative process that encompasses all facets of daily living. It is what gives the human community its soul.”				Send a Postcard

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