Portia Munson The Artist Who Displays Hoarded Collections As Art
Juliet LOVES pink. So it is with great amusement and girly fun that she and I have explored a pink pop-up, and a pink restaurant in NYC. Recently, the Flag Art Foundation featured Portia Munson’s “Pink Project” and so off we went, (her dressed in pink of course) to explore and see it for ourselves.
The exhibit explored artworks that array ordinary objects within containers, a theme that artist, Portia Munson readily played with. In the past, we had seen her pink objects exhibited in a glass coffin and also perfectly lined up on a pink table, OCD style. This time though, her exhibitting format took over a room. A pink bedroom! Juliet could not have been more thrilled looking around at all the pink gloriousness.
She brought her Barbie doll (also dressed in pink for the occasion) and showed her around. Out loud, she dreamed of living there and said, “Mommy, I wanna live here.” Here she is after I explained she couldn’t.
haha! We stayed in this room, playing I spy for quite some time. It was the girliest sensory overload one could imagine. thousands of discarded pink objects ranging from toys, to fashions, to stuffed animals and shoes, filled every crevice, every corner.
It was truly amazing to see! The canopy for this pink bedroom was made up of pink children’s onesies of all kinds which made me wonder how many items of pink clothing Juliet has gone through at the ripe old age of 5.
The artist actually sewed all of these clothes to create this tented effect.
From reading about Portia’s passion for pink, I understood that she was exploring the marketing of femininity and questioning how culturally loaded the color was.
Leaving the exhibit, I started questioning where the line between hoarding and collecting for art’s sake was drawn.
Check out her last NYC exhibit called, “The Garden” below.
What do you think? Is this hoarding or art?
As a bonus, she also jam-packed her printables with amazing menu ideas with her pre-printed tent cards! Using some of her suggested ideas, and some of my own entertainment ideas, I’ve collected 15 fantastic fun-filled ideas for your very own fab Frozen event!
Build a real one outside while wearing tiaras if it happens to be a snowy day. Or do what we did, build a snowman out of marshmallows, chocolate chips, pretzel sticks and candy corn! The printable set has the perfect sign for this activity. And I found Ziploc bags with Frozen characters printed on them to send them home with Olaf!
We had an Elsa blue microphone, so it seemed natural to have a Frozen Kareoke moment but your singalong could simply be belting out tunes along with the Frozen soundtrack and any old microphone (or wand turned into microphone).
Think, Elsa, blue, white, glitter, and Anna pink! The almost-5 – year old kids painted their own nails and I was truly impressed at their level of concentration and skill! Juliet here creatively decided to paint each nail on her hand a different Frozen-themed color and it turned out great!!
With the printable tent card as our inspiration, we created rice krispy treats. You could create these with white snowflake sprinkles or white and blue M&Ms for an extra sweet Frozen surprise.
We played catch with my furry, white Christmas ornaments but you can use any white ball or heck a real snowball or a stuffed Frozen character!
And it was easy, given Angela’s Parties To Go already labeled and included printables for all these items.
It’s all about the toys at this age. Pulling out toys for the kids under one theme, helps everyone to focus and helps us mommies to keep some semblance of order around the house. I don’t know about you but I manage the overflowing toys and prevent boredom by rotating (i.e. hiding and pulling out) toys. One day we’ll have a 
They had fun trying to make the biggest bubbles possible and chased each other around with the bubble wands. We gave one away to each playmate along with stickers, snowflake hair elastics and adorable glitter soaps in Elsa colors made by
These customized soaps can come with glitter and the Elsa character or with any small toy hidden inside! The kids had a laugh attack playing with the soap in the shower…while still in their Elsa dresses!! 
SO much Frozen fun! What is your favorite idea? And do you know any Frozen fans that would like this? Make sure to share the post and give it some love with a comment below!
