Research

So I went to an exhibit of Romare Bearden yesterday in the Reginald F Lewis Museum, with my Africans in the New World class. Some really great collage work.

I also wanted to include the two books I just finished reading and would really recommend. One was Lies my teacher told me by James W. Loewen and the other was A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki.

Lies my teacher told me was investigating history text books in the US and spoke about specific people and events that had been left out of textbooks and analyzed why.
Takaki does not speak at all about or to textbooks but is just a history book in itself and is really really informative. It goes through the different groups immigrating to the US throughout different time periods and the problems they endured and how they over come or attempted to over come these political and social problems.

In search of some Johnny Cash...

After along journey to Chile, I have returned, ready to get working on the final drag of my last semester as a college student and finally finish my thesis work. I was doing alot of re-educating while down in Chile, mostly about US history, and now I'm ready to finish the plates that have for too long stumped me.
Here are some photos from the Botched Taxidermy show:

These are the wonderful models I used for the Botched Taxidermy class before heading off to their new home.

This is a hat I had painted before heading down to Chile.