Terry Tempest Williams
In Part One of this week’s show, we talk with writer and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams about her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Terry Tempest Williams starts MOSAIC in Italy, where she has gone for a workshop to learn the art of mosaic. She puts that learning to use later in Rwanda, where she helps survivors build a memorial to the victims of the Rwandan genocide in their small village. She bridges the two journeys with another journey to Utah to study the last wild prairie dog communities in America, communities that are part, she says, of a critical–and critically endangered–ecological mosaic. The mosaic that creates beauty out of brokenness is the theme Tempest Williams follows as she brings us on her remarkable journeys.
Web Extra: listen to Williams read from Find Beauty In A Broken World here.
LINKS
- Information about critically endangered Utah prairie dog from Center for Native Ecosystems.
- Prairie Dog Coalition website
- Sign the petition to protect the Black-tailed Prairie Dog under the Endangered Species Act
- Barefoot Artists Rwanda Healing Project
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[...] MOSAIC: FINDING BEAUTY IN A BROKEN WORLD, Terry Tempest Williams takes us to three places she connects through the themes of art and community: first, a workshop [...]
[...] MOSAIC: FINDING BEAUTY IN A BROKEN WORLD, Terry Tempest Williams takes us to three places she connects through the themes of art and community: first, a workshop [...]
[...] Terry Tempest Williams has also written about Rwanda. Her book MOSAIC: FINDING BEAUTY IN A BROKEN WORLD is about using art to heal the human soul after great trauma. She took a workshop to learn the art of mosaic as a way to deal with the horror of 9/11 and its aftermath. She put that learning to use later in Rwanda, working with survivors in a small village to build a memorial to victims of the genocide. Here’s an except from our conversation. You can listen to the entire interview here. [...]