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Judith Varney Burch

Art Historian, lecturer, visiting professor

Art, culture, tourism

"Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts"

Bermuda National Gallery

in Delhi with the Can. cultural guy from the embassy

chilly...out with officialdom in the back row....drummers and singers in the front

what an incredible opening for the exhibition in Salekhard, Siberia...the only town in the world on the Arctic circle

banner at the Shemanovsky Museum Complex in Salekhard

lecturing to kids in Siberia

out on the Gobi in Mongolia with my special friends from the Can. Emb. in Beijing

giving a talk in Jaipur, India

colleagues in Mongolia

banner in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia - on Sukhbatar Square

in Nanjing where I spoke (behind him) at the univ. an auditori

I am with Claire Poulin, Can. Amb to Latvia. Next she invited me to El Salvador, where again she was the Amb. ...now in Ottawa

Riga originally was a church built in the year 1200...yes, I said 1200

one of my lectures ..Gaston was the cultural attache...he is a gem and is still a friend- has visited me here in virginia.

1985speaking in the Jaipur museum - Anokhi

the lovely Indian woman brought me to her university of craft and design, where I spoke a few days later (My daughter)

figures created like the wall hangings...in Siberia

lots of news coverage

Mongolia - shaman sculpture...intriguing connection- and drumming

string games became imp in Riga

at a radio station, outside of Salekhard...in the Nenet area

at a prof round table...this is where I have been asked to become a visiting professor...Universidad Nacional de Rosario

working with children all over the world

with Peter Irniq and Marc Lortie, the Amb Peter created the inukshuk

Can. Amb residence in Paris

Paris March 2009 ConC3

Neuquen, Patagonia - a fine museum

announcement of the exhibition in Patagonia

in BL - in front of Mongolian wall hanging

girls in front of Beijing pieces sent to them

Ruth Tapatai wearing a pin given to her when she went to the Echigo Tsumarii Festival on the Sea of Japan

Beijing

enjoying seeing a catalogue with one of her wallhangings

Victoria looking at a picture of her mother - from my catalogue of Oonark prints