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...high school history class. She has since become deeply involved in human rights work, spending a gap year teaching Burmese refugees on the Thai border. When she contacted the OFA about doing an installation to raise on-campus awareness, she was introduced to Duehr to collaborate on a project with his public art workshop...
...five senses through a combination of visual and performance elements. Regarding the workshop, Duehr says, “With this piece, the goal is to bridge the two worlds between preaching and being abstract. We’re trying to connect with people on a human level.... The project is meant to bring viewers out of the realm of spectators and into the realm of action...
...draping saffron material from trees and considered asking exiled Burmese monks to meditate and pass out rice in the yard—an act that references past demonstrations in which monks symbolically overturned rice bowls to express their dissent against the military. Sugarman, who had envisioned a slightly simpler project, was thrilled by the way her ideas grew during the initial dialogue between the artists and activists in the workshop...
...plans to create a body of paintings on the subject of Italian cities for her thesis, said that having a thesis advisor with whom she had worked before would help her to channel “conflicting and contradictory voices” into a coherent project...
...sheer scale of the project is a potential problem, in terms of time, money and technology. The premise of using a biometric employment card (which would most likely contain fingerprint data) to stop illegal immigrants from working requires that all 150 million-plus American workers, not just immigrants, have one. Michael Cherry, president of identification-technology company Cherry Biometrics, says the accuracy of such large-scale biometric measuring hasn't been proved. "What study have we done?" he says. "We just have a few assumptions...