In art class today we finished up our clay gargoyles and handed in previous projects. We planned our next assignment, we talked about new techniques, and missing artists.
Ai Weiwei is an internationally acclaimed Chinese artist, who is best known as a designer of the Bird's Nest Stadium of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Lately however, he has been known for his critique of the Chinese government.
This past Sunday morning when trying to board a plane at a Beijing airport, he was stopped and taken away in police custody. Not only has his affiliates been called for questioning, but computers, documents, disks and hard drives have also been seized from his studio within the past few days. Weiwei is still currently detained, but no specific information regarding where or why have been released.
-Em
Eco-Note- I'm really hoping that by now a bunch of you have tried to cut back on your plastic water bottle intake in order to switch to a more environmentally friendly canteen, right? (YES, is the answer I'm looking for...) Well what if we apply this to juice boxes and pop too? To minimize the need for waste, we can put our juices for lunch in water bottles for our lunch bags, this way we can buy in bulk to minimize packaging materials!
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