After our walk through the streets of Lusaka, we returned to Lubuto Library where I visited the painting students in the Arts Center. The Visual Arts Program began in 2007 and gives a core group of ten students the chance to attend weekly painting classes and to work independently throughout the week in the studio.
The exciting news is that the Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, has invited the students to exhibit their work in June of 2011-- the same time as the annual conference of the American Library Association will be in the city. I am excited because I plan on attending the event. A chance to dress up, see some great paintings by Lubuto artists, and spend time with other Lubuto Library Project supporters.
Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. Cheap Flights to Lusaka
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