Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
Kate McIsaac ,1ST LIEUTENANT, U.S. ARMY and Laura Klein, ARTIST
Kate McIsaac just celebrated her 30th birthday in Baqubah, Iraq. She is a 1st Lieutenant in the Army, serving in OIF IV – V at FOB Warhorse as a postal officer. Her unit is from Long Beach, California.
She is also a first-year law student at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa and will either go into criminal law or First Amendment Libel law. Libel law is near and dear to her heart.
Kate also has a degree in Journalism and worked as a journalist for several years.
Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
Barbara Boxer, U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA and Barbara Leventhal-Stern
The first words I associate with Senator Barbara Boxer are passion and courage. In my mind, I saw an image of a boat that “keeps on course”.
Because the exhibition serves to inspire young women who could be faced with adversity or hard decisions, I inserted excerpts from our email dialogue so they could read about the sources of her commitment themselves.
Thanks to Senator Boxer, and Michael and Adrienne, her talented staff.
This box represents the beautiful mosaic of children in the United States. The girl holding the flag is my niece who was recently adopted from an orphanage in China and became a U.S. citizen.
Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
KATE MCISAAC ,1ST LIEUTENANT, U.S. ARMY and Laura Klein, ARTIST
Kate McIsaac just celebrated her 30th birthday in Baqubah, Iraq. She is a 1st Lieutenant in the Army, serving in OIF IV – V at FOB Warhorse as a postal officer. Her unit is from Long Beach, California.
She is also a first-year law student at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa and will either go into criminal law or First Amendment Libel law. Libel law is near and dear to her heart.
Kate also has a degree in Journalism and worked as a journalist for several years.
Welcome to Singapore, truly inspiring city where East meets West. A Country with a unique array of rich ethnic cultures. A vibrant city with many exotic, exciting and extraordinary attractions for visitors. Visitors should be able to feel the spirit of harmonious Singaporean living together as ONE UNITED PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF RACE, LANGUAGE OR RELIGION. Let the World be UNITED like Singapore and there shall be PEACE & HARMONY.
Tajima Box Project. An artist and an extraordinary woman collaborate to create a box.
Fannie Flagg, ACTRESS, COMEDIAN, AND AUTHOR with Ramona Otto, ARTIST.
When I was told that I would be doing a piece on Fannie Flagg, I was honored. We are from the same generation, and I’ve always enjoyed her TV and film work, and was impressed that she was also a brilliant author and screenwriter. Because word play is often a part of my work, my original thought was to make the box into a soapbox, and then I could make the theme into whatever message was important to Fannie.
Fannie’s wish was to have a positive art piece because she was tired of all the negative art and energy being released into the world. She hoped her piece could reflect that life was good.
I hope my title gives a whole new meaning to the word “cheerleader.”
The Maasai are a pastoral people who live in Kenya and Tanzania in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. The Maasai believe all the cattle on earth were given to them by God. The Maasai way of life is spent in moving from one place to another in search of grass and water for their herds.
Today, the unique customs and traditions of the Maasai still exist and are treasured by them. Great effort must be made by all to see that this treasured culture is preserved for the future.
By revealing this beauty of the Maasai people, I hope my contribution in some way helps in the preservation of this priceless culture.
The small portrait is of a Maasai woman painted on a fragment of a special and very useful “Oleleishwa” tree. The tree is used by the Maasai to clean calabashes for milk, as perfume, for making clubs and thatching beds.
For centuries, women in Bosnia have been telling fortunes by looking at the bottom of their cup from which they drank coffee. This is a sort of white magic. They turn the cup upside down and then different shapes from out of the coffee grounds left in the bottom of the cup. Each ‘figure’ represents a symbol; dog-fidelity, horse-strength, rabbit-speed…
The weasel has a special place in the history of Bosnia. It represents the protector of the Bosnian rulers.
The weasel, which is a very blood-thirsty animal, amazes us because of the gentleness of the mother.
I started thinking about this after I had seen this ‘figure’ in my cup.
I want to send you a small part of my country
Bosnia & Herzegovina.
This is a gift from me to You.
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