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My project was a clothing swap and drive that supported not only the environment but also the families of cache valley. My motivation came from the knowledge I’ve gained about the environmental impacts of textiles on the planet

This piece was inspired by my want to hold myself accountable for my carbon output and to show that even what I would assume is regular life still contributes to a lot of ecological damage. I decided that I wanted to animate part of my day and then discus...

I wanted to show how small the Earth was and how quickly problems are growing.

For this project we wanted to create a project that would merge a creative outlet to the material waste that takes place in America. In unveiling the Anthropocene, our group was very interested in the statistics and facts of how much of America’s resource...

I chose a final project that is a video tutorial of sorts. This video serves as an art lesson and an object lesson in one. I am an Art Education student and I began this project with the thought: “How would I teach my students about the importance of savi...

The anthropocene examines how we, as humans, affect the environment. In theatre, we learn of how the environment impacts us. Our characters and circumstances are deeply impacted by temperature, weather, outside noise, etc.

My final project is a combination of Cinquain poetry, images and music. The poetry is inspired by American poet Adelaide Crapsey who was the first to write this style. It is a short style but each word must be selected to produce the appropriate impact.

My name is Brian Garrick, I am a sophomore Theatre Design student at Utah State University. I focus mostly on lighting design in my major and I thought that using this aspect of theatrical design would be best for evoking emotion.

I decided to create this social media project because I wanted to find a creative way to share with my family and friends what I have learned in this class. I began with an outline of my first posts and the main ideas I wanted to get across.

For my final project I have decided to make a video made up of images with a backdrop of a piece for cello and piano played by me and a pianist I will find. The piece I found to be the background music is called “Tres Campanas de Rere” (Three Bells from R...

The video “MAN” by Steve Cutts has greatly impacted how we view humanity’s impact on Earth. It depicts man’s relationship with the natural world starting 500,000 years ago to the present day. Animals are transformed from their natural form to clothing ite...

Humans have had a major impact on the biosphere in the history we’ve been around. We often don’t think about the ways our actions affect the other species we live with even though life has existed on Earth far longer than humans have.

For our final project, we wrote a song titled “Mother Earth”. In 5 verses, we focus on 5 main global issues that we’ve discussed in class over the course of this semester. We wrote in the perspective of our Mother Nature crying out to her inhabitants, pl

I decided I was going to write one symphonic piece of music that represented the general idea of the class. Long story short, I ended up writing a 13 minute, three-movement suite, with pictures and text to help encapsulate the whole class.

The Earth’s global average temperature has risen by a little bit less than 2℉ since the Industrial Revolution. My song, “2 Degrees” tells the story of how that temperature increase can affect our lives, both now and in the future.

When tasked with a creative final project at the beginning of this semester, I was stumped. I have never fully seen myself as a “creative” person. However, I know that I am a dancer and that I could possibly try to convey my own sense of creativity throug...

This earth is full of memories, recorded in the flutter of leaves in the wind and the blue of the sky at midday. For me, one of the most potent is that of Thanksgivings spent in the desert of Arizona. I remember resting on the cool grass as heat from the

Throughout the semester one of the things that stood out to me most was the loss of biodiversity and the increase of deforestation. As someone who grew up in Idaho only a short drive from the mountains and forests the thought of them being destroyed is he...

Our narrative begins showing the importance of biodiversity on land, in the skies, and in the oceans. We then travel to an island to watch as a news banner displays the catastrophes of an unstable Earth.

Percussion has been a part of my life for a very long time. As I thought about what I wanted to do for this project, writing an indoor percussion show was one of the first things that came to my mind.

As a Choral Music Education major, I took this question into the perspective of “How would I tell this story, or any piece of it, to better connect my students to its importance?”.

Nature has always been important to me. At a young age I found peace in nature exploring the mountains behind my home. Another important part of my life is music. I have played the harp for 15 years and music has become a way to express my thoughts, feeli...

Given my lack of skills in visual art or music composure, I wanted to gear my project to something else I'm passionate about: yoga. I'm a yoga instructor and I love designing classes.

For our final project we decided to create a video that is formatted similar to that of a talk show. Our motivation for the piece is the idea to educate people by entertaining them, as theatre students it is our biggest goal to entertain.

This short film tells the story of the environmental impact made by early settlers of Cache Valley Utah on the Bear River Mountain Range, and how the lessons learned can be applied to the crises facing society today.

For this project, I originally wanted to take a more serious tone with a totally different style of music. I wanted to go for something with a little edge, but as I started to write the lyrics and figure out the overall musicality of the project, I felt i...

I created this piece as a way to represent what is going on in the world and the future in storefor us.

The planet is in trouble. Above and below the earth’s surface,the many crises that lay between the melting ice caps can’t be resolved by anything less than a global effort. What can one person do?

For my final project, my goal was to create a video that showcases the beauty of Earth’s versatile surface. My main takeaway from our Anthropocene class this past semester has been that serious changes are necessary.

In this class I was presented with endless information that confirmed, without a shadow of a doubt, that our planet is in a crisis. While I came to this conclusion by simply analyzing data, this issue has unfortunately been deeply politicized.

I believe in the power of a vision. To see where we can go and what we can do is impactful. The first step to seeing where we can go is accepting our mistakes and cleaning up what we can now. The next step is setting up the infrastructure we need to lift

For our final project we performed Stephen Mitton’s piece for string quartet titled “Juvenoia”.

My name is Miriam Penrod and I am a Chinese Major! I find joy in learning Chinese and in challenging myself to improve in my personal language abilities. I believe that words are powerful and should be spoken with thoughtfulness and good intentions, no ma...

As of March 2021, African elephants have been listed as critically endangered. Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat are blamed for the recent sharp population declines. My artistic approach for awareness was to write a simple video game called "Endanger...

This piece was inspired by my want to hold myself accountable for my carbon output and to show that even what I would assume is regular life still contributes to a lot of ecological damage. I decided that I wanted to animate part of my day and then discus...

This multimodal poem tells the story of the Earth’s decline and the conflicts that plague its rehabilitation. As the poem is read, the viewer experiences watching the drawing come to life, finally viewing the planet grasped in a claw-like hand as wine...

As I spend countless hours exploring the majesty of my piano, I often turn to a nearby window to gaze at the world outside. Just beyond the walls of my home, a lush maple provides ample refuge to the copious avians that take up permanent residence in the

I wanted to create a piece about the harm that human impact has on wildlife. The reason I chose to represent this as an x-ray is because often we pretend like this is a problem that is not easily visible.

I believe that we all have talents that can be used together in collaboration to make our world a better place. For this project I used my talents as a pianist and collaborated with some of my peers that are both artists and pianists to put on an environm...

“The Average US Consumer Throws Away 81.5lbs of Clothes Every Year. In America alone, an estimated 11.3 million tons of textile waste – equivalent to 85% of all textiles – end up in landfills on a yearly basis” (Martina Igini).

For my project, I created a short kid’s book. My inspiration for this is that my niece, Ruby, who I dedicated the book to, loves to read her books and her stories.