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Chelsea's Fiber Artist |
by Karen Leitner Long time Chelsea resident and renaissance man Stanley Bulbach is an artist, scholar and community activist. He is highly skilled in fiber art - flat weave tapestries - and his designs combine old-world technique with contemporary sensibilities. With a bachelor’s degree in the history of religion and a master’s and PhD. in Near Eastern Studies from N.Y.U., Bulbach is an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, and location of modern day Iraq and Iran. This background gives him a rich vein to mine from, regarding who we are and where we came from. Mathematics, astronomy, the law, writing and commerce all originated in ancient Mesopotamia. (To read the full article . . . .) |