Life Imitates Art
Packed like sardines in the cab of a pickup truck, and bouncing in and out of the giant ruts and holes of Haiti’s roads, Andrew Meade, Dionne Jackson ‘95, and Mark Andrews were unsure of what to expect next. It had been four years since Meade’s last visit to the country, when he’d met with Haitian artists and gallery owners, purchasing art to sell at the Vassar Haiti Project, and then putting the money back into Haiti through a hot lunch program and toward funding a new school.
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Booming program takes off
Convincing middle school kids to come to school on Saturday is a hard sell, but Poughkeepsie’s Project Thunder has found a way to teach life skills and provide mentoring in a fun, hands-on environment. more...
A study in contrast
In one of Yoshu Chikanobu’s woodblock prints, a young girl practices calligraphy, her hair styled incongruously in a Western bob. In another, well-to-do men and women in Victorian garb are depicted at a horse race against the backdrop of a traditional Japanese landscape, illuminated by a display of fireworks. more...
