Designed by Cultural Outreach with A Woman's Touch ny American who has traveled to Iceland knows what it is like to try and explain the experience to compatriots at home.
Faces go blank.
Friends carry on as if you had just returned from Mars, and many haven't a clue about the people, language or culture of the place. So rejoice, American Icelandophiles. There is a woman in Washington who is busily working to change all this by raising the profile of Icelandic art and culture, and she is, single-handedly, doing quite a job. Next she found Icelandic artists and musicians living in the USA, and with no official backing or budget, offered them her home as a venue for shows. There have been nine events so far and requests from Icelandic artists and performers both in Iceland and North America for inclusion in the program are multiplying like rabbits.