University students, youth farmers collaborate for food justice
Students enrolled in a new course in Food Justice & Social Practice combine urban farming, food security, and socially engaged art.
Edible art
The New Media Fermentation Workshop, a collaboration between University professors Leila Nadir (sustainability) and Cary Peppermint (art and art history) meets in Burton Hall. The workshop consist of students making their own personal vegetable ferments, such as kimchi, and new media art students who will be documenting and remixing the experience. The workshops are part of EcoArtTech’s new work-in-progress, Edible Ecologies, which involves collaborating with local communities to resuscitate historic food practices and foodways.
Digital artist receives Lillian Fairchild Award
The selection committee chose Cary Peppermint for his portfolio of innovative and collaborative projects exploring connections between industry and nature.
An Urban App to Slow You Down
“Indeterminate Hikes” encourages users to focus on their environment in unexpected ways, via an app developed by a faculty art professor and a sustainability writer.