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10/8/01

STUDENT WORKS BASED ON NEPAL STUDY EXHIBITED IN SLU GALLERY

CANTON - "Coca-Colonization and Cultural Conservation: Globalization, 
Sustainable Development and Empowerment in Nepal," and exhibition of 
photographs by Matt Gaines and papermaking by Lydia Brown, will be in 
the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University from October 
15 through December 7. 
	For a University Fellows project in the summer of this year, 
Brown, a junior from Fitzwilliam, N.H., studied Himalayan papermaking 
as a means of cultural conservation and sustainable development. "While 
in Nepal, I learned how papermaking and papercrafts have become a catalyst 
for the empowerment of women," she says, providing jobs, income and a 
certain level of independence for many in local communities.  
	Gaines, a sophomore from London, England, was one of a group of 
students participating in the Summerterm course The Personal and the 
Planetary: An Enlightened Interface. "One of the first things that struck 
me about Kathmandu was the proliferation of signs, billboards, street 
umbrellas and other manifestations of the gargantuan transnational 
conglomerate throughout the city," he comments. "Quite rapidly, however, 
I grew resentful of the fact that it was impossible to shoot some 
photographs without the Coca-Cola sign."
	In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a slide lecture 
on Thursday, November 8, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center, 
on "The Art of the Book in Tibet," by Jim Canary, head of the conservation 
department of the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington. 
A workshop on Tibetan papermaking, printing and bookmarking will be given 
by Canary and Brown on Friday, November 9, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Brush 
Gallery. Participation in the workshop is limited to 15; call the gallery 
to register.
	For more information, or to arrange individual or group tours, 
contact the Brush Gallery at (315) 229-5174.

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