Cultural visit

, but Louis had no interest in working there. Unfortunately, he did not have any interest in it; instead he enjoyed nature, and painting landscapes. He traveled to Germany, France, Italy and Morocco. At Chartres Cathedral, in France, he especially admired the stained glass windows. The colors were extremely vivid and decorative. They reminded Louis of the glowing colors in the jewelry in his father's store. When he returned to New York in 1870, he opened an interior decorating business. Many wealthy people including Mark Twain, and the Vanderbilt's, wanted his designs in their homes. He also worked with Thomas Edison to light the Lyceum Theatre in New York City. Tiffany opened a factory in Corona, Queens, where he produced decorative and colorful lamps and windows made from stained glass. Tiffany's works are usually associated with Art Nouveau, a style which uses designs inspired by nature. If you look closely, you will notice trees, flowers and insects incorporated into his works. The Neustadt Collection includes lamps and windows.
             Hong Sung-dam was born in 1955 in the Sihan Island south of the Korean peninsula into a situation of poverty and oppression. He began the "People's School of Art" in Gwangju, a city in Southwestern Korea, in 1983, and organized an artists association in 1985. Hong was imprisoned for his participation in the creation of a mural in North Korea depicting various injustices suffered by South Korean people. He was subjected to torture in prison, and released in 1992 after unrelenting protests from humanitarian groups. Since his release, his work has turned away from the specifics of war to address global issues of communication, violence, protest, and rehabilitation. The exhibition will include Hong Sung-dam's most well-known work, Dawn, (1981-1988) a series of forty-nine prints memorializing the human situation of Korea in the 1980s. In May 1980, students, workers, intellectuals, religious leaders, and other supporters of the Korean democratization movement rose up against the military regime in power in Gwangju (Hong's home).