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The East African
Wednesday January 20 2021
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Adorned with the wellbeing symbols My Granary, My Home is suggestive of basketry as a life fulfilling practice, that stores and provides for society, she adds.
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On display at Sarah Nakisanze’s recent exhibition titled “My Granary, My Home” were five artefacts made from local materials such as bark-cloth, cowrie shells, raffia fibres, and straws, among others, focusing on Social Sustainability.
Social Sustainability is the third dimension of Sustainable Development referring to the state of good quality of life enabled by valuable societal relationships and ecology sustenance systems.
Nakisanze says that Social Sustainability can be attained through social ideas that facilitate societal welfare including equity, wellbeing, social cohesion, participation and sustainability awareness.
Texture is the word that Arlene Hecht used to describe the similarities of four artists on display in the Falmouth Art Centerâs Landrau-Partan Gallery this month.
That is why Ms. Hecht, who served as guest curator for the show, titled the show âTexture Crossover: Work by Viktor Guyetsky, Will Kirkpatrick, Leslie Kramer and Frances Vaughn Merton.â
Ms. Hecht is the owner of the former Gallery 333 in North Falmouth, which she ran for more than 25 years.
âTexture Crossoverâ is on display through February 1.
The four artists in the show have diverse backgrounds, and they all specialize in a different medium.
Born into a German Jewish family, Hesse was about three years old when her parents left their extended family behind and fled the Nazi regime, arriving in New York City in 1939. Her parents divorced in 1945, and her mother committed suicide a year later. Despite her traumatic and tragic early life, Hesse was an accomplished student. As an adolescent, she already wanted to pursue art, and she attended the School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design). She went on to study at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (from September 1952 to December 1953), Cooper Union (1954–57), and the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University (B.F.A., 1959), where she studied with artist Josef Albers. After she graduated, Hesse returned to New York City and supported her art by working as a pattern designer for a textile company. In 1961 Hesse exhibited her work for the first time in a show titled “Drawings: Three Young Americans” at the John Heller Gallery. She met and marrie