2021 Works - 2021

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...

My project is titled, “Time.” I decided to use poetry to try and get people to care. It’s hard with any big issue to connect its importance to the general public but the climate crisis seems to be outstandingly hard to do so. Many still fully believe it i...

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

My piece includes three different paintings on three different canvases. The first depicts a time portal with a person stepping out into the future. Then there are two landscapes showing the different scenarios this person could be walking into.

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...

Since I can remember, I have always loved the ocean, my family has had an eternal love for the ocean, and we're always longing to go back to it. Growing up on the Oregon coast and visiting family on the island of Hawaii, I've gained significant appreciati...

For my final project, I wrote a poem on something everyone loves, food! It shares my personal story of discovering food allergies to corn and soy, which are in the majority of packaged or prepared foods.

This painting depicts each of the 5 great extinctions and suggests that we are heading towards a 6th. This 6th great extinction, different than its predecessors, would not be caused by natural phenomenons but rather by humans.

Did you know that nearly 30% of birds in the US and Canada have vanished since 1960? If you ask me, that’s too much. There is so much that the human population is doing that is hurting biodiversity.

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.

This piece is a short story, creative non-fiction, written in epistolary form. It takes the perspective of a young person learning more about the state of the world and communicating their new information to someone in their confidence.

For this past year, I have been working towards building my illustration, animation, and storyboard techniques. From learning in this class, I knew that for my first ever animation I wanted to make a statement. I came to this conclusion after reading abou...

Some of the first words that come to mind when I think of my own mom are love, sacrifice, service, nurture, provide, hold, support, comfort, and above all, warmth. The Earth nurtures, provides, and sustains us similar to the way that a mother cares for he...

For this project, I thought about all of the different ways to tell the story of the Anthropocene, but had a difficult time trying to figure out the parts that I felt like I could retell.

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.

As a child, I spent countless hours with my family, camping and exploring the mountains and rivers of the western United States. I also held a deep fascination for the ocean and the various things that live beneath its surface.

The Elegy for Planet Earth is a musical and visual-story telling of climate change through music, nature, and science. It combines a performance of an arrangement of two songs that represent the story of our Earth currently: Elegy for the Artic by Ludovic...

My goal with this painting is to show that creative minds and the art that they create and share can have a big impact on helping people see what our world could look like if we take more action to preserve this earth!

According to the World Economic Forum, “85% of all textiles go to the dump each year” and, “Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity's carbon emissions”. This makes the fashion industry one of the most polluting industries on the planet.

My final project is a three-page essay on the effects of sea level rise and ocean acidity. It was towards the beginning of the class when we discussed the effects climate change, and specifically the effect that carbon has on the oceans.

“Travel Posters” they exist in every touristy gift shop at every state or national landmark and parks- I know, because I collect them. I have posters from Craters of the Moon, The Golden Spike National Monument, Shenandoah National Parks, and the various

I chose to showcase Earth's natural beauty in a way that instills a sense of awareness into everyone who views the art. Many extinct species are discovered through fossils, and I relied on a similar medium to demonstrate the threat that our current pathwa...

Utah State University formally committed to sustainability in 1991 when President Cazier signed the Talloires Declaration. The university also committed to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2050. In 2020, the university reduced greenhouse gas emissi

How the earth came into existence is much more than a miracle to me because so many things had to fall specifically into place. As humans, we get the opportunity to live upon earth’s vibrant surface and use its abundant resources. However, there is a cost...

Our goal for this project was to create a small-scale piece of music that was very accessible for both performers and audiences. Our goal with this project is to promote an emotional reaction from audiences about the issue of climate change through our mu...

It’s a rivalry as old as cat versus dog, Yankees versus Red Sox, and sweet versus salty: religion versus science. In an age of ever-increasing technological advancements and an increase in secularity, one has to ask themselves, can science and religion ev...

I have been vegan for over three years and an environmentalist the majority of my life. When I was a kid and picked up a graphic novel about Jane Goodall, I immediately knew that there was more I could do for the world. This cookbook was a little bit of t...

For this final project I wanted to create a short comic strip that simply talked about climate change and that gave a few ideas of everyday things we could do to help prevent it.

With the current rate of global warming, our earth is experiencing extinction of various species, natural environment deterioration, and temperature changes in our atmosphere.

Project: My project is an edited image of art work. I started with a blank canvas and decided to paint the original theme of “There is No Planet B”. Then I incorporated all of my single use waste products I collected for a month.

This project was created to express a situation in which a person is trying to escape. In this representation, a girl is tearing her way through cardboard, her face is masked and blurred by a layer of polluted air. Her hands come through the layer, repres...

Discussions about combating climate change should not be political, but usually they are. It's astounding to know how many people refuse to take accountability for their actions and how they’ve affected life on this planet.

“Plucking Grass” started as an ode to the beauty of nature. As my writing process continued, I could not help but incorporate the impact mankind’s actions have had on the Earth. My goal for this piece was to combine art and poetry to show the reader how w...

With my project, I wanted to explore not only the feelings and symptoms anxiety about the environment can bring about, but also potential ways to address that problem. I wanted to get out some of the worry I was feeling, but in a way that wouldn’t needles...

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

Over the past several decades, public discussion surrounding climate change has steadily increased. For my project, I wanted to take a closer look at how well the information regarding climate change is being communicated to individuals around me.

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.

With this project I wanted to portray a sense of final hope. This piece pictures worn hands holding a flower in a jar with the label, “The last one”. I want to draw the eye of the viewer to the flower with the placement and the color scheme.

For my final project I produced a collection of watercolor paintings and poetry to represent the voices of the ocean, the atmosphere, and the earth. I’ve always viewed nature as a feminine presence, and I carried this view over to my project by introducin...

For my final project in this class, I wanted to really focus on the growing issue that we face concerning one-time plastic use. Many of the items that we use everyday have a large amount of plastic, especially for only being used once.

Our story—the history of humankind—is the greatest adventure of all time... and space. Our brief existence on earth is an epic tale through which I hope this short story is able to convey a certain nuance and poignance.

For this project, I helped some of the Kindergarten Prep children at my preschool investigate climate change. We watched videos and read books to help them learn about how the planet is changing. The book that finally sparked their interest was, “Many.”

I chose to write the story of a village for my project, because I wanted to show how everything is more connected than people realize. Even though there are many different changes that happen within the village, they don’t happen independently. Each chang...

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...

I have always been fascinated with all things space and stars. At night (depending on the location), we can only see a limited number of stars due to both light pollution and pollution from fossil fuels. In this class, we have spent time discussing pollut...

This project was designed to represent the contrasting outcomes for our planet as humanity faces a crossroads of environmental choices. The project is a book cover for an evidence-based book discussing climate change.

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.

My project is based on a lot of symbolism. The snake surrounding the tree is irony in the picture. Typically snakes represent new life and rebirth, especially when they are shedding their skin.

The project I am submitting is a collection of 8 stickers that I created to help increase awareness about the variety of issues the world is facing. Some of the topics I focused on include; overconsumption of natural resources, pollution and extinction, a...

When I was presented with this assignment, I immediately knew I wanted to write a children’s book. I am a writer and I love kids. I also co-teach at a cooperative learning facility in my hometown. One of the main facets of my classes is connecting the les...

The objective of my final project is to show the inter-connectivity of our global crisis as well as our global solutions. The first side depicts the dark side of our situation and the harms that are all interconnected.

In this essay I wanted to explore the disconnect we often have with our personal impact on environmental issues and the consequences of some of our daily decisions. Damage to our earth systems, as well as wealth inequity and human suffering are some of th...

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.

In this project, I wanted to create something that would remind people to take care of our environment, especially in Utah. We have so many diverse landscapes and five national parks in the state. Many people, including myself, use our wildlife to rock cl...

I took Unveiling the Anthropocene this semester not knowing much about it. From the beginning the class has given me an urgent need to do something to help heal our Mother Earth.

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...

This project was motivated by my newfound realization for the dependency of humans on unsustainable diets. The quote was taken from an interview of Dr. Eshel on the film “Before the Flood” which was watched for this class.

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.

As I created this piece, I hoped to connect people to the biodiversity in their surroundings and build awareness of the importance of each organism in an ecosystem.

Madlyn, or “Madi” Petty, is a current BFA student at Utah State University studying photography. Her work has evolved from live music and concert photography, into a focus on Fine Art photography.

For my project, I wanted to emphasize the impact someone can have by making a single choice. Many people don’t know how eating meat is actually hurting the environment. And it’s not because eating meat is literally bad for the Earth, but how agricultural

This oil-pastel piece was inspired by the beauty of the world that I grew up knowing. I spent much of my childhood outside and learned to appreciate the earth and its majesty. I have also seen the impact that humans have made, specifically the negative im...

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

I believe that we need to treat our world with respect and care because it is our home. However, our current lifestyles often abuse its resources, which ultimately limits our options for continued living under our current patterns.

For our final project, we chose a large-scale mural capturing the contrast between sustainable living versus unsustainable living on our own campus at Utah State. The mural is made up of two 4x8 wood panels that combine to create an 8x8 foot surface.

The goal of this poster series is to convey the impact humans have on the environement and climate change. By using my knowledge in graphic design and combining elements digitally from a large collection of photographs; I layered them in a way that wouldn...

Art has always been my rock; it is my way to express my emotions and talk about the things that I am passionate about. During this class one thing that stuck out to me that gave me a little bit of a shock hearing, was that most animals are going extinct b...

The inspiration for this piece came from my own, wonderful Grandmother, who is crazy enough to collect plastic eating utensils from public events, take them home, wash them, and use them until they break. But in the course of learning the material in Unve...

As a person who loves to write, I have always appreciated the ability words have to invoke emotion. I really wanted to capture some of the emotions I felt while taking in information throughout this semester in the form of encouraging others.

More space does not always create a harmonized space. In this art piece, I took two drastically different areas. One has 84,899 mi² of space with a population of 3.2 million. The other has 233.7 mi² of space with a population of 9.8 million.

I was able to go on a trip with my friends where we were able to snorkel and see some incredible coral reefs off the coast of Florida. That experience has still inspired me. Seeing the countless varieties of fish and sea life in such a short time has stuc...

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...

The inspiration for this project was the amazing biodiversity this world contains, but specifically the uniqueness of plants. No one plant is the same, each have their own amazing patterns that colors that cannot be repeated the same. These photos show th...

Doomsday – this is supposed to be my story in understanding and discovering the severity of our situation as a planet in the context of climate change.

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

For my final project in this course I decided to make a lengthy essay, discussing the importance of immediate actions required from everyone on earth in-order to save our planet.

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.

For my final project, I chose to make three bottles out of ceramic. The idea behind this piece was to show a sustainable way of holding liquids. Ceramic is a very sustainable material that can be found from any sort of clay. Using these ceramic pieces to

For my project, I wanted to use my artistic ability to draw important figures we have learned about throughout this class. I believe the best place to begin when discussing the Anthropocene is with the people who have contributed to the conversation.

I have always been passionate about the environment and working towards creating a sustainable world. Throughout this class I have gained a much better understanding of climate change and how catastrophic and urgent the issues surrounding it are.

Inspired by the film Chasing Ice (2012), I designed this series of posters to reflect the climate crisis of the melting ice caps in the Arctic and Antarctic.

My project is a series of small PSA’s, specifically on climate disinformation and how to spot it. Of all that I’ve learned in this class, the most shocking to me was how media will blatantly deny climate change, and use subtle but underhanded means to do

“Three Moths” draws attention to an important, though often overlooked, part of the ecosystem through its depiction of colorful moths. In addition to being a food source for birds, bats, and lizards, moths are also pollinators. However, like many species,...

Throughout this semester, I have been really struck by the stories and images shown in the documentaries we have watched. Where I am from, it is difficult to see many of the disruptions that have been occurring because of us. However, these videos put the...

This graphic design project represents the impact of the internet on the climate. Data centers consume a large amount of energy, mostly in the form fossil fuels —such as gas, oil, and coal — to run and keep the servers cool.

I decided to write a children’s book about a little girl, Sally, who visits the zoo with her mom in a futuristic world. This book highlights the devastating impacts of climate change on the animal kingdom and wildlife on earth.

As a photographer, It is my job to capture the feeling and emotion of my clients. This project challenged me to do the same thing within nature. I decided to create 3 different collages of my photography work. The first one depicts depressing real-life sc...

We hear the discord surrounding the climate crisis time and time again in the news. The majority of that conversation is negative information with little mention of ways to contribute to the solution.

My project is a colored pencil piece that shows the climate change in the arctic. I was motivated to create this piece because I have noticed the warming of the ice there and the horrible impacts it has had on the animals. I wanted to show the differences...

Intro to Anthropocene as a college course has been very eye opening to a third generation coal miner's daughter. I like many of my family and community members have a misconception of what the foundations of green or planet life is.

I decided to write a short story that has drawn inspiration from my own life and seeing Logan grow so quickly in the last 23 years. I always remembered how “small” town Logan had felt and because of further expansion and demand for growth a lot of that fe...

“A Call to Attention and Unity” is a series of posters created to inform and bring people together. Climate change is the root of many issues in our day. More importantly it is the root of the problems in our future.

Our project is a parody infomercial demonstrating the exhausting media and societal pressure people feel to have to fix everything all at once. While we are in dire need for drastic changes in our world. It’s important to remember that change starts small...

Over the course of this term, I learnt a lot about the exploitation of the planet. We are running out of resources and if we don’t reach a balance point on our terms than we will be forced into a less comfortable one. In particular I was interested in thi...

My project consists of a photo of my two friends taken by me at a hot springs near Fillmore, Utah. I used images from the web to photoshop the factory smokestacks and pipe. This picture represents many people’s responses to the unfolding environmental cat...

This piece was made with old magazines through a process called collaging. Collaging is a way to up-cycle magazines into surreal and interesting art. I chose this process because I wanted to show how easy it is to create with old things.

Consumerism and capitalism have been two very prominent themes this semester. Some scientists have said that growth is impossible without a capitalistic society and economy, others have said that the constant need for growth will be what ultimately kills