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...ability of printmaking to augment the depth of original paintings or sketches is the reason artists persist with the techniques. The new print exhibition of Indonesian pop artist Agus Suwage, running at the STPI from Sept. 26 to Oct. 24, is a case in point. Agus began his residency at the Tyler Institute in January with a desire to protest a 2008 Indonesian antipornography law that he felt curbed the freedom of women and artists like himself. "It affects pluralism and Indonesia needs to be pluralistic," he says...
...Asians didn't really understand what we were doing," says Eu of the STPI's earliest years. Even so, Asian artists began to grow curious, drawn by the technology and on-site expertise that would be at their disposal. "It's like a candy store to most artists," says Hungerford. Painters the caliber of Filipino Ben Cabrera and India's Atul Dodiya took up residencies. Both the STPI's artistic reputation and financial underpinnings slowly strengthened...
Such a convergence of education and opportunity is already happening in Independence, where the Gilliams live. As part of an innovative program in low-income neighborhoods, the city school district began hosting weekly dinners for students and their families, paid for with federal funds from the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Families get a free hot meal and a cooking demonstration that shows them how to prepare similarly well-balanced entrées at home. "Part of that initiative is to get children to sit down and eat with their parents, and part of it is to teach families what...
...much of their information from the Internet. The farmers said they were persuaded to buy so-called "certified" jatropha seeds, which were said to grow in tough conditions. They were also told they would be given advice on how to plant their fields and that once the plants began to produce seeds, agricultural officials would buy them at prices upwards of 1,000 shillings ($13) per kilogram. Farmers were also told that demand would increase steadily for the oil produced by the seeds. (See pictures...
...plant] was more fragile, especially in its initial establishment phase, than we thought," says Jan Van den Abeele, executive director for Better Globe Forestry, a Nairobi-based group that studies optimal conditions for planting trees in dry areas. And many farmers had no buyers for their seeds. Some began giving them away to neighbors...