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VCU Mass Communications major Akeem Hutcherson is gearing up for his semester in the United Arab Emirates at the American University in Dubai.
You will probably want to bookmark his impressive website: Destination Dubayy
Stay tuned for more of his adventures!
VCU fashion design and merchandising majors along with their professor, Linda Lee, have just returned from Guatemala on Sunday. This morning, they spoke eloquently about their experience to an audience including VCU Education Abroad staff, the executive director of the Office of International Education, the head of the Fashion department, and the dean of the VCU School of the Arts.
The project was in collaboration with the Highlands Support Project and Richmond's own AlterNatives fair trade shop located in Carytown. They spent their time in Guatemala working with local women artisans to develop a clothing line (including accessories) to market in the US. The results are amazing. Not only are the products that they created beautiful, but the impact that the experience had on the participants is deep. The students expressed their sincere love of the people and culture of Guatemala, and many are planning to return in the near future. The garments that are featured below should be available for purchase at AlterNatives in Carytown in the spring. Also, keep an eye out for the VCU-HD-TV three-part series about this project.
For more information, contact VCU Education Abroad (abroad@vcu.edu) or Ms. Linda Lee at (ltlee@vcu.edu)
The garments
The students
The accessories group
Linda Lee
Student James Bilbo presenting the line name, "Darla Luz" which may soon be trademarked