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...Drawing on her diverse background?and a foundation art course in Britain?Magyar works with more than 90 small local producers and craftspeople who design a range of household items made from indigenous materials. The results are innovative and stylish. Bark cloth?"a wonderful material that is peeled from the trunk of a fig tree and traditionally used as clothing"?is coaxed into purses, cushion covers, jewelry bags, even Christmas stockings. Ugandan village women's basket-weaving skills are applied to banana-leaf and raffia place mats, palm-leaf cutlery trays and millet-stem and raffia lampshades and coasters...
...various conservation efforts, but he is also a member of several rifle organizations.Melton started the meeting by introducing the Commission’s newest member, a woman named Jennifer Martin. I was immediately impressed by her. Although she is young, she has a degree in biology and a strong background in writing grants for Game and Fish. Martin is not opposed to hunting (she hails from a hunting family), but she is not a hunter herself, instead opting for hiking and music composition in her spare time. “Game and Fish is getting...
...sell modern art prints." She was quickly inundated by customers looking for other home products and, since 2000, has combined her love of traditional local craftsmanship - basketry, weaving, leatherwork - with her own appreciation of designs that are both useful and attractive to Western sensibilities. Drawing on her diverse background - and a foundation art course in Britain - Magyar works with more than 90 small local producers and craftspeople who design a range of household items made from indigenous materials. The results are innovative and stylish. Bark cloth - "a wonderful material that is peeled from the trunk of a fig tree...
...conducted and the ways in which those are not friendly to women candidates.”The report contains a number of new guidelines designed to make searches for new faculty more equitable. For example, the report calls for search committees to be “diverse in background, perspective, and expertise.” This year, Hammonds also oversaw faculty recruitment, reviewing over 400 tenure appointments, and in almost two dozen cases her office provided funds to help woo professors from groups that are under-represented in the faculty.Hammond said that her work is not done. Next year...
...room on the first floor. Usually hanging in a distant corner, it gives you a jolt when it springs on you. It's a rectangular oil panel: a group of adolescent Brahmins, bare-chested and with gleaming, sacred threads dangling around their torsos, sit cross-legged against a burgundy background. One of them stares at you, one turns away, and the central figure, with a white-and-red paint mark on his forehead, looks beyond you, as if seized by an inspiration. The painting, Brahmacharis, is mesmerizing enough if you are a foreigner, but for any Indian, its power...