by StaceyHB | Jan 22, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Travel
Welcome to part 2 of my photos of Kuwait. I was only there for a few days, and a few of the museums Patricia and I went to visit were shut. The one I’m really sorry about was the Tareq Rajab Museum. If I ever get back to Kuwait, which I sincerely hope I will,...
by StaceyHB | Jan 17, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
I was hoping to have got some great images of my trip to Kuwait online by now, but I am having problems uploading images to WordPress, so whilst my website people (doesn’t that sound posh?!!) are getting back to me (hopefully with a solution), I thought I would...
by StaceyHB | Jan 11, 2010 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
I am sitting in my hotel room overlooking the bay towards the old Kuwait City. Through the heat haze and the dust raised by the building works in the city, mingled with the higher dust raised by troops in the desert, I can see the murky outlines of some stunning high...
by StaceyHB | Dec 23, 2009 | Art, Education, Life, Psychology, Teaching, Weaving
Just recently, I woke up and looked out of the bedroom window onto a beautiful morning – low winter sun shining on the willow tree forming a tracery of orange against the clear blue sky…. Orange?! Look again – yes! Orange! Bright, vivid, ineffably orange....
by StaceyHB | Oct 6, 2009 | Art, Education
This is a long post as I want to tell you about an important local event. This weekend was the start of the British Ceramics Biennale in Stoke-on-Trent. This initiative, in the home of British Ceramics, is a tremendous event both for ceramics in the UK and also for...
by StaceyHB | Sep 20, 2009 | Education, Life, Philosophy, Psychology
In this quarter’s Philosophy Magazine, there is an article asking Where Are All the Women? Whilst there are roughly even numbers of men and women studying philosophy at undergraduate level, that number begins to have a male bias at MA level, and more so at PhD level,...
