Banerjee’s photographs ask us to reframe the way we look at our environment, by focusing on one eco-system--the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--and the indigenous tribes, native animals and geological structures that populate it.
San Francisco-based artist and teacher Wendy Testu discusses her latest project: a labor of love that galvanizes one community around its social and environmental history.
"We took the very basic idea of theater, which is a relationship between an actor and an audience, and expanded that to build community."-Christopher McElroen, co-founder and executive director of Classical Theatre of Harlem-Beckett's Waiting for Godot has been lauded by many as the play of our time. (A recent British National Theatre survey determined …
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Major Jackson's books of poetry include Hoops and Leaving Saturn. The latter was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His work has appeared in such publications as the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, and The New Yorker.
"When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget."-Norman Borlaug-Norman Borlaug is credited with saving 245 million lives. That's …
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Elvin from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo.The video above is about Elvin, a healthcare professional who has worked as a nurse for more than 20 years and also holds a degree in political science. He has been married for 25 years and has three children.As InvisiblePeople.tv writes: "Elvin sounds like someone you'd meet at a baseball game …
Artist and wanderlust William Wacker shares images and impressions gathered during his recent tour of Asia, why he needs to catch up on vampire flicks and how, when it comes to art, it’s sometimes best to “shoot from the hip.”
The New York Times recently proclaimed the death of photojournalism.
"The door remains open for the regime to respect the wishes of the Burmese people and international community, and to step toward the path of engagement after so many years of isolation."-United States Department of State-Aung San Suu Kyi, the visionary Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was sentenced Tuesday to three years …
"Studies have shown that up to 46 percent of women in developing countries have experienced at least one episode of sexual abuse in childhood. Most girls in developing countries live in a world completely devoid of safety. In a previous blog I talked about a World Bank study that found that as far as poor …
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