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Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Friday, June 05, 2009

Rwanda Knits: changing lives one stitich at a time

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I recently stumbled across this wonderful inspiring project in Rwanda and just had to share it here! Teaching women to knit---using knitting...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Ghana coast & row, row, row your boat

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After traveling in the hot and humid inland, the coast of Ghana was paradise...slightly cooler (but still humid) with a refreshing ocean br...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

April is National Poetry Month

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April is National Poetry Month here in the USA--and I like to honor poems and the poets by featuring some here throughout the month...here ...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Ghana Kente Cloth #2

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After visiting the Craft Market, we went to another small village and visited a facility with numerous Kente cloth weavers, and glorious col...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Ghana Craft Markets and Kente Cloth #1

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While in Kumasi we visited a Ghana Craft Market with out guide, "Mr. Charles." In this compound many artisans were actively creati...
Monday, March 23, 2009

They Danced for Us

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Everywhere we went in Ghana in our bus---the people would gather around or come up to the windows and try to sell their goods to us. I was t...
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I am an artist who was born and grew up in Alaska, as did my mother--my grandfather was a gold miner. I am recently returned from serving in the US Peace Corps as a volunteer on the Island of Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean. Some of the tasks I did as a volunteer : I taught art at a primary school, helped the school with development projects, volunteered with a youth group, and volunteered helping to organize and produce a local literary festival. I also worked for over 20 years on commercial fishing boats in Alaskan waters and lived for over 18 years in the Alaskan "bush" with no electricity and no cars. Alaska has shaped my view of life and culture, but so has raising two daughters, a life of making art in many mediums, and owning my own Used and Rare Bookstore. I guess I am somewhat of a vagabond who has done many things in my life--deckhand on a fishing boat, bookseller, nanny, chef, administrative assistant in a college dean's office,mom (that is a job!) but I always come back to artist.
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