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See the Facebook post by VCU How a VCU alumna used dryer lint to rescue her art career Cancer treatment destroyed most of the muscles in Heidi Hooper’s upper arm. She saved herself from depression and found a new way to create using an unlikely source. Portrait of Andy Warhol using dryer lint with soup cans in the background. "Andy Warhol in Dryer Lint," Heidi Hooper's tribute to Warhol and winner of a 2014 Niche Award. (Photo courtesy of Heidi Hooper) By Erica Naone Office of Development and Alumni Relations Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 Heidi Hooper was a metalsmith working...

A couple of nights ago, my wife hollered to me that the dryer was smoking, even as she shut it down. I grabbed the machine, dragged it out of its slot, and disconnected it from power and the dryer vent, ready to drag its hot and still smoking carcass into the yard rather than have it burn the house down. The smoke was some of the most acrid I have encountered, and that includes my time as a firefighter in structural, woods, marsh/brush, boat, and vehicle fires. Before I made it to the threshhold, though, the fire burned out. With...

President Obama and wife Michelle leaving a restaurant in Martha's Vineyard, whilst on their summer holidays Michelle Obama adds another designer to her United Nations fashion portfolio. America's First Lady Michelle Obama's holiday wardrobe this year includes a vibrant, patchwork, folkloric dress by the London-based Nigerian designer, Duro Olowu. The dress, a funky, layered, smock-style, features at least five different silk prints. Mrs Obama was photographed wearing the dress while out for dinner this week, with her husband, in Martha's Vineyard. She has previously worn Duro Olowu's designs in 2008 and 2009, and has long been a 'collector' of...