This sixteen-week course, co-taught by artist Fred Elmore and scientist Jenny Royer, occurred twice a week in the Green Street Arts Centers afterschool program and aimed to explore and promote an understanding of global climate change issues. Using...
ProfessorProfessor & Chair of Earth and Environmental Science Department Johan Varekamp included a module in E&ES359 Global Climate Change entitled “The Colors of Climate Change,” which investigated the portrayal of the environment in landscape...
During the Spring 2008 semester, students led by Rachel Fischoff, 08 and Alexandra Provo, 10 studied visual and movement-based artworks relating to the environment (including earthworks and more socially conscious projects), and then presented work...
Of All The People In All The World is a fascinating performance/art installation that uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life. In this captivating exhibition, each grain of rice is equal to one person...
The Khatylaevs perform a fascinating and little known musical repertoire rooted in the animist and shamanist traditions of their native Yakutia, a.k.a. Sakha, the vast region of north central Siberia whose fragile ecology is now under increasing...
Assistant Professor of Dance Katja Kolcio added a Feet to the Fire module to DANC309 Advanced Modern Dance Technique III. The module focused on points of view pertaining to 1) how bodies/selves function, 2) how dance skills are cultivated and 3) how...
Part Greek chorus, part Doris Humphrey movement choir, part tongue in cheek, part cynical take on the notion of "green"...a ritual, a quirky, silent response to climate change. Maybe it could happen anywhere, at places where consciousness...
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Gina Ulysse designed a Feet to the Fire module with printer/ bookmaker Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. in her new service-learning course: ANTH232 Alter(ed)native Approaches: Middletown Lives. Students worked with Kennedy...
Assistant Professor of Government Mary Alice Haddad incorporated a Feet to the Fire module into GOVT/EAST382 Civil Society in Comparative Perspective. Haddad worked with Visiting Instructor Eiko Otake to create a module that explored this topic...