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Are you interested in becoming a beach naturalist? The South Sound Estuary Association is training people who would like to volunteer for the summer in their beach naturalist program.
Training dates are April 19 and 26, May 3, 17 and 31.
The first session will run from 6-9 p.m. at The Evergreen State College. The remaining classroom sessions are from 6-9 p.m. at the Boston Harbor fire station, 5046 Boston Harbor Road NE, Olympia.
Students admire the pieces produced by the program Rites of Passage during a gallery show in the Arts Annex on Thursday. The finished pieces incorporated ceramics and metalwork and reflected a wide array of influences. — Shauna Bittle photo
Sculptures created by students in Evan Blackwell and Jean Mandeberg’s program Rites of Passage. — Shauna Bittle photo
We are 2/3 of the way through our academic year, and once again students are breathing a sigh of relief as Week 10 draws to a close. They’ve worked hard this quarter and have produced impressive academic and creative projects in an amazingly short period of time. It has been our pleasure this past week to tour their final presentations and open houses. Over the course of the week, we have both learned from them and admired their achievements.
We want to thank the programs Rites of Passage, Art/Work, Diversity of Life, Gender Performances and Evergreen’s Mycology students for inviting us to document your final presentations. We enjoyed visiting with all of you! Here are some of our favorite images from the week.
The program Diversity Of Life held a debate on the merits of assisted migration in the farm house on Evergreen’s organic farm. — Andrew Jeffers photo
Students talk about some of the local fungi and lichens at the 2013 FUNgal Expo in the library building. — Andrew Jeffers photo
A dance party breaks out during the Mind Body Medicine poster fair. — Andrew Jeffers photo
Students from The program Gender Performances hold a poster fair to present their final group projects. — Andrew Jeffers photo
Visitors contemplate an installation of boxes lit from within at the Art/Work end-of-program Open House in their studio. Over the second quarter, the students focused their work in one of three disciplines: photography, fine arts or writing. — Shauna Bittle photo
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Our intern Andrew Jeffers recently had the opportunity to look over shoulders in the Trajectories in Animation, Mathematics, and Physics program. Students have been creating animation devices such as strobotops and flip books. In the process, they’ve been exploring the fundamental laws of physics and mathematics through drawings that come to life.
In this One-Minute Evergreen, program students Corey Coomes, Jackie Argueta, and Jake Hurner discuss how these devices provide a great platform to demonstrate their understanding of concepts as through the medium of animation.
Students from the program Trajectories in Animation, Mathematics looking at Stroboscope examples created by Faculty Ruth Hayes.
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A member of the sheep club shows a recently born lamb to a group of students who took the club’s invitation to visit their pasture. — Shauna Bittle photo
Last week, the Evergreen “Sheep Club” invited members of the campus community out to visit their flock of 3 dozen sheep a few miles off-campus. February is birthing season for the sheep, and pairs of lambs followed alongside their mothers as they grazed.
“Sheep Club” is the nickname of Evergreen Students for Sustainable Animal Agriculture–a student group dedicated to hands-on education in animal agriculture. Many of the students are in the program Agriculture and Conservation in the Pacific Northwest; and as members of the club, they put their studies into practice. They visit the pasture daily to care for the flock. This year that includes bottle-feeding three baby lambs who needed extra care.
It was a beautiful day for a visit and a great day to take pictures. We’re hoping to visit again in the spring, when the club prepares for shearing. For now, enjoy the photos!
For more information on the Sheep Club, or to arrange a visit, email: essaapasturedlamb@gmail.com
A member of the sheep club bottle feeding recently born lamb. — Shauna Bittle photo
Sun following rain brings out rainbow as the Sheep club’s flock of 3 dozen sheep graze. — Shauna Bittle photo
Members of the Evergreen Community observing the Sheep Club’s flock during lamb season. — Shauna Bittle photo
A member of the Sheep Club corners an escaped ewe in a stall before returning her to the field. — Shauna Bittle photo
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Art… Kathleen Moloney enjoying “There’s Not Enough Womb in Here,” created by Mica Huntley, Jane Mary Rubinstein, Caity Heath, Maryjane DunpheGreetings All,Welcome to another erratic edition of the Inside Evergreennewsletter. This week we invite you to visit the library and its current display of art objects from the Art|Work program. Led by faculty members Kathleen Eamon, Shaw Osha, Julia Zay,with faculty librarian Stokley Towles, students worked in groups to create a wide range of artworks based on the art and design of The Bauhaus School. If you can’t get to the library, you can get a taste of it here.__________________________________________________________________________
More Art… __________________________________________________________________________ Zimmerman – The High Cost of Education…
__________________________________________________________________________ And finally, even more art… If you haven’t had the chance to visit Galerie Fotoland’s stunning exhibition by faculty member Amjad Faur, do it now. The show ends soon. |
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Filmmaker Lyda Kuth ’78 will present LOVE AND OTHER ANXIETIES on February 26 in Lecture Hall Three, at 6:30. The event is free.
From right to left: Kent ’74, Lily, Lyda ’80
(OLYMPIA, WA) Lyda Kuth and her husband Kent Christman were both born in Ohio and enrolled at The Evergreen State College in the first few years after opening in 1971. Nearly a decade later, they crossed paths in Boston and later married. Their relationship, and the universal uncertainties of finding and staying in love, is the subject of Kuth’s first feature film, a personal documentary, “Love and Other Anxieties.” Kuth, a 1978 Evergreen graduate, will be on the campus on February 26, 2013 to meet students and faculty, present a public screening of her film and answer questions. The screening is at 6:30 pm in Lecture Hall Three. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is $2.
After two decades of giving grants to New England artists and filmmakers as the executive director of the LEF Foundation in Cambridge, MA, Kuth secretly contemplated making a film. She finally admitted this desire in her mid 50s, around the time her only daughter was preparing to go to college.
Love and Other Anxieties, movie poster
Kuth decided she wanted to talk with young people in her daughter’s generation about their expectations for marriage and long-term commitment. In one scene she travels to Evergreen and interviews professor Stephanie Coontz—an internationally recognized author and expert on the history and culture of marriage—and her students. These interviews helped launch and are part of “Love and Other Anxieties,” in which Kuth also turns the camera on her own “average” love story.
The Boston Globe’s film critic Ty Burr called “Love and Other Anxieties” “extraordinarily touching in its very ordinariness” and that it bears witness to “the ache we all have to keep love fresh.”
Kuth has appeared with the film at film festivals throughout the country and the film had its theatrical premiere in Brookline, MA in November. This event is the Pacific Northwest premiere.
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.
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
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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
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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:
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Editor’s Note: Amazing to say, but the whole Evergreen campus community is reading the same book this year. It’s part of a new, faculty-led project called the Academic Statement Initiative. Each summer, new students will be sent, and asked to … Continue reading
