Tim Girvin ’75
Beginning this week, Everett Community College (EvCC) is hosting an exhibit by the internationally recognized designer and illustrator Tim Girvin ’75. A reception and workshop are part of the project.
Additionally, if you’ve clicked around the blog you may already know that Tim has been instrumental in its design. If not, you can learn more in our About Page.
Film by Rachel Leah Jones ’93 screens at the Olympia Film Festival, Tuesday November 13 at 5:00 PM
Rachel Leah Jones ’93 will screen her latest film “Gypsy Davy” at the Olympia Film Festival, Tuesday November 13 at 5:00 PM
Selected by Screen International as one of the top 10 movies of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, this documentary by Evergreen alum Rachel Leah Jones (who will participate in a Skype Q&A following the screening) tells the unusual story of her father, flamenco guitarist and serial womanizer David Serva. Shot over a ten-year period across three continents and utilizing an ingenious editing structure that Variety describes as akin to a “flavorsome, twisty literary novel”, Jones turns a tangled family history into a homemade epic. Featuring performances from some of the finest flamenco artists in the world, as well as interviews with the many women and children that Serva left in his wake, the richly textured film pivots on an attempted reconciliation between the filmmaker and the father who left her thirty years earlier. As Paul Sturtz, programmer of the True/False Documentary Film Festival, wrote about this new classic of the genre, “other than a few other landmarks like Capturing the Friedmans, I’m not sure I could name very many films that use interviews so effectively…. this is quite special, and begs to be watched.”-Olympia Film Festival
Filmmaker Rachel Leah Jones ’93 remembers a childhood with her flamenco dancer father, David Jones.
Editor’s Note: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy we asked Erik Fabian ’00 to share his experience from New York City.
Erik Fabian ’00 lives in Clinton Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY and works in Manhattan where he manages the Moleskine brand in the Americas from Moleskine America office in Chelsea.
As we cross the cusp of October and November in 2012, Hurricane Sandy has redrawn the lines that define and divide the northeastern United States. A new line that divides the haves and have-nots in NYC currently stretches east to west in a band near 30th street in Manhattan. To the south, a third of Manhattan island is without power. There is little traffic except bikes and taxis during the day, no working stop lights, no working subways, office building are shuttered, grocery stores are closed, and people are without running water. Night brings a spooky, suspicious, desolation that is exhausting the locals as much as is the lack of showers. Most restaurants are closed but you see a few curbside fridge clean-outs – like a westside steakhouse that caters to Wall Street executives selling their $70 dollar steaks as $10 steak sandwiches from curbside grills. To the north, the coffee shops are full of refugees seeking WIFI, warm drinks, and electrical sockets. Continue reading
This Halloween the President’s Office was open to trick-or-treaters and a band full of monsters, animals, and mythical creatures visited:
Animator and illustrator Drew Christie ’07 created this cover art as well as the illustrations featured throughout this issue.
The latest Evergreen Magazine is now available just in time for election season. The Fall 2012 magazine highlights various ways Evergreen alumni engage in the political process.
Evergreen students, faculty and alumni continually demonstrate extraordinary public engagement, driven by a sense of responsibility rooted in social justice.
This issue also features the colorful drawings of cartoonist, Drew Christie ’07.
Admissions counselor Julian Genette ’08 takes Evergreen’s lovable mascot, Speedy, with him on his travels. Over the past few years, he and Speedy have covered thousands of miles, talked to thousands of prospective students and had some international adventures as well.
Join Julian in spreading the Evergreen word, and some of its unique charm, by nabbing your own Speedy from the Greener Store (its under gifts) to take on your rambles. Email us a photo with caption and we’ll post it here. We can’t wait to see how far Speedy can go.
Our friends at the Organic Farm pulled off a great event last weekend. Check it out!
Field report author, Ken Tabbutt.
Editor’s Note: Member of the Faculty, Ken Tabbutt provides the following Field Report from his program’s Fall 2012 trip to Yellowstone.
The upper-division science program, Environmental Analysis, used the first few weeks of Fall quarter to travel through the west in order to study microbiology, hydrogeology, and analytical chemistry in an integrated and applied manner.
The trip followed the path of the Missoula Floods up the Columbia River Gorge, through the scablands and up the Clarks Fork drainage. A week in Yellowstone National Park provided an opportunity to grasp the interconnections between the unique geology, thermal systems and microbiology.
Clyde Barlow and Ken Tabbutt lead their students through Yellowstone National Park–an environment epically rich in both science and artistic beauty. Photograph by Shauna Bittle
Visits to the Berkeley Pit of Butte, Montana and Silver Valley, Idaho focused on the mining history and the physical and biological processes that create acid mine drainage and metal contamination. A final stop at the unusual alkaline lakes of Grand Coulee provided an opportunity for students to sample lake water and identify chemoclines, thermoclines and do alkalinity titrations until the wee hours of the morning.
One Minute Evergreen: Yellowstone
Yellowstone ranger Wes Hardin leads Environmental Analysis students through Mammoth Hot Springs. ** Faculty Ken Tabbutt, Andy Brabban and Clyde Barlow take a group of students through Yellowstone National Park with the program Environmental Analysis on Fri., Sept. 30, 2012. The group was studying the unique geological and microbiotic conditions in the park.
Last month, The Evergreen State College’s radio station, KAOS 89.3, was celebrated as one of the top ten Community Radio Stations in our nation. The accolades come from the Princeton Review and the magazine, Performer. You can learn more about the role of community and non-commercial radio stations through this great article!
Last month Bre Pettis ’95 was featured on the cover of Wired Magazine. His desktop 3-D printer may very well change the world!
Bre was also featured on the National Public Radio program, The Scratch.