TONIGHT: Art Without Borders in words and pictures

By Volcano Staff on March 30, 2011

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What happens when a local artist team travels to Bwindi, Uganda, to teach art making to members of the Batwa pygmy tribe? You'll have the opportunity to find tonight at Northwest Costume during a free lecture where local trip participants recount stories of their extraordinary journey and their efforts to aid the Batwa people, inhabitants of the Impenetrable Forest who were evicted from their homeland after it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Read the full scoop by Lisa Kinoshita here.

And peruse some photos from the Art Without Border trip taken by Carol Brady and Lynn Di Nino below.

Taking a break in the marketplace. Photo: Carol Brady

A Ugandan man uses pedal power to sharpen a blade. Photo: Carol Brady

Colorful headbands by the Batwa artists. Photo: Lynn Di Nino