Lynda Barry: What is an Image?

Lynda Barry graduated Evergreen in ’79. Her blossoming career as a cartoonist, teacher, novelist, business owner and more embodies the interdisciplinary approach practiced at Evergreen. These days a portion of Lynda’s work is devoted to giving speeches and providing workshops that explore creativity, writing, and what an image is. The Post Crescent recently sat down with Lynda for an interview before one of her talks.

Evergreen’s TEDx is Monday, February 25, 2013 4-7pm

TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege: Local Innovations for a Changing World is the second TEDx conference hosted at Evergreen. It’s coming soon and you’re invited.

Last year Evergreen hosted its first Tedx conference, TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege: Hello Climate Change, 11 speakers from across the community shared their thoughts on the ability — and responsibility — of formal and informal education to inspire and empower action in this era of climate change. David Roberts’ video was picked by TEDx interns as one of ten top videos of 2012.

from Inside Evergreen: Food, Health and Sustainability

Faculty Martha Rosemeyer (at right) discusses spices with students in the program Food, Health and Sustainability in the Sustainable Agricultural Lab at Evergreen’s Organic Farm. — Shauna Bittle photo

Click here to view the latest One Minute Evergreen

Last week, we got a call from faculty Martha Rosemeyer who invited us to visit her program Food, Health and Sustainability as they cooked together in the lab at the Organic Farm. The students had worked on creating nutritionally balanced one-pot meals. During our visit last Friday, they were learning to add a layer of complexity to their dishes by using the distinctive flavors of several different cultures including India, South America and Asia.

We filmed and photographed as the students chopped, sautéed and simmered; and our mouths watered as the flavors of their dishes came together over heat. After cooking, the class ate together family-style and we were lucky enough to get to sample the delicious fruits of their labor.

Martha Rosemeyer took a few minutes of the day to sit down with us and talked about how important it is to apply the study of food science to cooking at home, and creating meals that are both exciting to taste and good for the body. Her words and our images are featured here in our latest One Minute Evergreen. Enjoy!

Students carefully fill bell peppers with a mixture of quinoa and chicken before baking. Each group was assigned a different cultural cuisine and used the spices and staples of that cuisine to make a unique dish. — Shauna Bittle photo

Food, Health and Sustainability students carry their meals from the lab kitchen to the farmhouse. The class ate family-style and everyone had the chance to sample all the dishes created by their classmates. — Shauna Bittle photo

Original post created by Inside Evergreen, a multimedia blog run by Photoland

North West Asian Weekly honors Tina Kuckkahn-Miller

Tina Kuckkahn-Miller, Founding Director of the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center

If you’ve been at the college in any of the last 17 years your experience has been shaped by Tina Kuckkahn-Miller. Tina is the founding director of Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

NW Asian Weekly will honor the work of Kuckkahn and other women of color in the Pacific Northwest. Learn more and see the full list of honorees.

 

Darby’s Cafe featured on the Food Network, owners Sara & Nate Reilly ’01 celebrate

Nate and Sara Reilly ’01 pose with TV show host, Guy Frier, outside of Darby’s Cafe – photo from www.weeklyvolcano.com

Last Monday “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” of the Food Network aired an episode, Hometown Haunts, featuring Olympia’s own Darby’s Cafe. Sara ’01 and Nate Reilly ’01, co-owners of Darby’s Cafe, didn’t have cable TV at home to watch the show so they invited friends, family, and customers to join them at the Capital Theater to watch the show and celebrate; proceeds went to Thurston County Food Bank.

– The Olympian has more on the story

 

 

Flocking to the feather art of Chris Maynard ’88

Evening Rush Hour – Carrion Crow Feathers. Art work by Chris Maynard ’88 www.Featherfolio.com

From Reddit to the Huffington Post the internet has begun to notice the work of Chris Maynard ’88. Feathers are Maynard’s medium; his most used tool: a surgical scalpel.

The Olympian has more on this rising artist and the crowd flocking to see his art.

Want to get your hands on a piece by Chris?  Learn more about the event and buy your tickets to the Art of Living today!

from The Horse’s Mouth: Interview of Jakob Shockey ’12 – Endangered Pygmy Sloths

Jakob Shockey stoking a fire. Photo from www.jakobshockey.com

Last November a team of Evergreen students published a peer review article in PLOS One, an open access, peer-review, web journal. Their project documented the condition of the pygmy three-toed sloth ( Bradypus pygmaeus), which is critically endangered. As a follow up to our original post on this project here is an interview by the Seattle Weekly Blogger, Matt Driscoll, of Jakob Shockey and Sam Kaviar, Evergreen students who traveled to Panama to study pygmy sloths:The Horse’s Mouth: Evergreen State College Students Jakob Shockey and Sam Kaviar Discuss Trying to Save the Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth

Inside Evergreen – highlight of Peter Bohmer

Peter Bohmer (right) talks about Political Economy and Social Movements at the Fall 2012 Academic Fair. He describes the class as a critique of capitalism and the study of how people organize together to create a better word. — Shauna Bittle photo

Photoland’s blog, Inside Evergreen, has just release a new multimedia presentation honoring the work of Peter Bohmer:

Click for the One Minute Evergreen, highlighting Peter Bohmer.