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La Sussurrata
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Kalispera! My name is Cynthia Korzekwa and I will be teaching the recycling workshops at La Sussurrata. Before deciding whether or not to sign up, you’d probably like to know a little bit about me. I was born in San Antonio, Texas where I
attended university majoring in Fine Arts and Literature. For several
years I taught in a local high school but felt the need to accumulate
more life experiences. So I moved to Italy (where I still live when
not on Paros). Here I continued to work artistically exhibiting in the
States and Europe. For awhile I even had a graphic art business. Then
I began teaching again this time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan,
Rome
and Florence.
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sunset
& ouzo, a daily ritual on paros| Eight years ago I read The
Scientific Warning of 1992 and it changed my life. Read the introduction
that follows—it may change your life, too.
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about. |
As a personal response, I began the blog, ART
FOR HOUSEWIVES, focusing on the use of household waste to make things.
This was July 1993 and recycling was not at all trendy at the time. The best
ideas I came across were those of women’s cooperatives in countries
like India, Brazil, and Africa where trash was used to make things because
they had nothing else.
A few years ago, I published “Arte
per Massaie” (Art For Housewives in Italian), an illustrated essay
with simple instructions on how to use waste to make beautiful and functional
objects encouraging women to Make
Art, Not Trash.
During the summer I organize workshops on Paros and during the winter I organize them in Rome.
