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Special Edition
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
However, you have to start somewhere. Both my sister and I chose to become teachers. Education I understood, and art was the one thing that I loved and was good at. It had given our family a splendid life and I wanted that to continue. I met my husband Bill while teaching on Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert during the Vietnam War. He had been a “Navy brat� and had lived in Morocco, Guam and both US coasts, and he too had traveled through Asia and Europe. We backpacked and skied and planned for him to go to grad school to study environmental science. The environmental movement was well underway and we wanted to be a part of it. We moved to Colorado where I studied woodcarving and Bill found a home in the Atmospheric Science Department at Colorado State University where he studied tropical meteorology. That resulted in a professorship in the Meteorology department at Penn State University and a concern for climate change and global environmental justice. While at Penn State I studied printmaking. I began a project of printing on fabric and creating masks and costumes of imaginary goddesses that could tell the stories of social and environmental concerns. I drew on the mask traditions that I had seen in Mexico, Canada, Bali and the Hopi pueblos of Arizona. I wrote the stories into song and had