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Arts & Life
Rachel Slade
Arts & Life Editor
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Wednesday, January 16.2008 Page 3
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Fashion highlights social responsibility issues
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By Melissa Crowe
Intern
Fifteen fashion design seniors
from the College of Visual Arts
and Design displayed original
garments created using organic
materials in the Union Gallery
Monday
Students created garments that
reflect public concern for social
responsibility by using materials
that are used to design, compose
and construct consumer prod-
ucts.
All the materials used were
either found items, organic
fabrics or post-consumer mate-
rials. Everything from shower
curtains to newspaper clippings,
Mardi Gras beads, lawn tarps and
roadside construction materials
made its way into the designer's
garments.
Mesquite senior Blanca Rentería
formed a dress with market bags
her mother brought back from
Mexico. She said she was having
trouble coming up with an original
idea for her project.
"My mom was in Mexico, and I
asked my professor if anyone had
used those grocery bags before,"
Renteria said. "My professor
said 'no,' so it worked out great."
Her project focuses on recy-
cling. Since the bags are reus-
able, she said she knew it
would make good material.
"They're authentic," Renteria said.
"In Mexico, you use those instead
of plastic bags."
Mesquite senior Hanh Dang
said her inspiration came from
weddings and all the beautiful
paper discarded after the cere-
mony. Instead of throwing deco-
rations away, Dang said they can
be saved and used for something
else.
"You could make a wedding
dress from old wedding mate-
rials," she said.
Dang hand cut more than 250
paper flowers of varying sizes
to adorn her dress of recycled
wedding textiles.
Another approach to social
responsibility was healthy eating
habits. Taiwan senior Annie
Yang manipulated low sodium
Campbell's soup labels to construct
her dress.
She scanned one label and
edited the image, changing both
the size and color of the original
labels to draw attention to her
design.
"I even wore it on Halloween
last year," Yang said.
Woodlands senior Kristen
Maeder designed her dress with
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Dallas senior Ashley Clement readjusts her dress during an exhibit in the Union Gallery Tuesday night, which displayed dresses made of
recycled material and created by senior design majors.
organic bamboo fabric that she
dyed with organic blueberries,
pomegranates and beets.
"The skin of the blueberries
collected all in the fabric, it was
terrible," Maeder said. "I had to
pick it all out by hand."
Her inspiration came from the
'30 s French fashion designer Paul
Poiret, whose style, she said, was
to take a raw square of fabric and
drape it over the model's body. She
created her dress using the same
principle.
"If it is taken down, it's just a
square of raw fabric," she said.
Going for a comfortable feel,
Austin senior Bethany Harding
purchased an old yarn afghan
blanket of yellow, white, green and
orange from Goodwill.
"The inspiration was actually
Latin art," Harding said. "I wanted
to do lots of vibrant 'look at me'
kinds of colors."
The geometric design of the
blanket reflects the angles and
lines of Latin temples she said.
"It's abig, old Grandma blanket,"
Harding said, "but I didn't want to
lose that fun, comfortable feeling,
so I made fingerless hobo gloves
to match."
NT alumnus Ashley Risica said
she was in awe of the exhibit.
"It's awesome," she said." I have
never seen anything like this. They
can create something so beautiful
out of crap material."
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FreeRice works to end world hunger
ByJillian Daniels
Intern
In a world where Web sites like
Facebook and My Space invade
households daily through brightly
lit computer portals, Houston
sophomore Kristen Bryant finds
a way to use her computer as a
means of "giving back" — in rice.
In October 2007 the interac-
tive Web site FreeRice.com was
created. Site viewers are tested
on their vocabulary skills, and
for every correct answer, FreeRice
donates 20 grains of rice to the
United Nations' World Food
Programme, which, according to
its Web site, delivers food to more
than 90 million people each year.
The site's advertisers pay for the
donated rice.
For every three consecutive
words the participant gets correct,
the vocabulary changes to a higher
level of difficulty.
Bryant, an avid visitor to
FreeRice since its creation four
months ago, said she's on the site
an average of one hour each day.
"It's addicting—it's exciting to
learn new words and get to help
people," Bryant said. "Plus it's
something else to keep me busy
online other than Facebook."
While 20 grains may seem insig-
nificant in the face of raging world
hunger, Bryant continues to click
away.
"It's great because even though
it seems like world hunger is too
big an issue and FreeRice isn't
doing that much, just spending
five minutes a day on the site, you
can change the life of one person
by giving them food," she said.
"You don't have to give money or
even that much time — just five
minutes."
Bryant said she has donated as
much as 3,000 grains in one sitting,
and, according to the Web site,
nearly 7 billion grains had been
donated as of December 2007.
"Sometimes I'll set goals for how
many grains I want to get," Bryant
said, "and I'll stay on for hours until
I reach my goal."
Pamela Sybert, the director of
educational consortium for volun-
teerism in the College of Public
Affairs and Community Service,
said in an e-mail interview that
sites like this are on the rise.
"We'll see more sites such as
FreeRice because predictions
are that the current generations
will not contribute to nonprofits
and causes in the same ways that
previous generations have," she
said. "The current generation is
more likely to give or donate online
than, for instance, responding to
a mail solicitation."
Newly introduced to the site,
Sybert said she just might become
a regular visitor.
"I will probably ask my students
in the philanthropy and fund-
raising class to take a look at it, too,
since it suits the subject matter,"
she said. "I found the site worth-
while, and I will go back to it. I
found it fun!"
For this same reason, Bryant
said she will continue to get the
word out about FreeRice.
"Most people come back to me
really excited about how many
grains of rice they donated that
day," Bryant said. "It's such an easy
way for everyone to get involved
in making a difference in other
people's lives. There's not a reason
not to do it."
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