2022 Works - 2022

I’m fascinated by how easy it is for people to destroy the home of someone else. I felt like drawing these species would help cement them in my mind as creatures that deserve to be protected and thought of. And it worked!

I chose to create a collage of pictures that I have taken in some of the most beautiful parts of the world. I made those pictures black and white to show that a lot of the beauty is gone. I chose hands that are holding a beautiful sunset to show that the

There is enough food in the world produced to feed everyone but ⅓ of all food produced is either lost or wasted. In this presentation, I’ll be showing you some ways you can either repurpose or reutilize some of the most common food scraps to make other pr...

Big World, Small Planet is our way of telling the story of the Anthropocene through the medium of a playable card game. The game tells the story through rampant consumerism that fuels growth, and tells of a brighter future through degrowth and seeking gre...

Wasps are most often misunderstood, feared and killed. In this collaboration with Brenna Decker, a Ph.D. Grad Student in Biology, we are striving to decrease fear and increase understanding of wasps.

We chose to write a children’s book and decided to be artistic in this way, to show optimism. We know that it is not very realistic in the way that it ends, but everyone needs a little hope, especially the little ones.

Many of us enjoy hiking to beautiful sights and swimming through nature's sweet waters. Unfortunately, some of the world's wildest wonders that have been here for millenniums will vanish within us and our children’s lifetime.

When it comes to the story of our world, it can be easy to focus on the negative aspects. And these things certainly are important to encourage the change that is needed.

This piece uses ink and watercolor to portray a skeleton praying as it is killed by the ashes of a volcano. The skeleton represents someone who refused to believe and accept the truths about climate change and the harm we as people are causing to our plan...

For my final project, I chose to create a pocket zine about global warming. I wanted to break it down as simply as I could so that anyone who came across the small zine could understand it without any background knowledge.

My motivation is mostly to explore what this art has to say about climate change and how it is effective. I wanted to see how climate change and all its results were portrayed and how this art affected how we see climate change.

Earth is everchanging, and whether we want it to stop it or not, we can’t, and it won’t. Our Earth is evolving as time goes by, and we all know we can’t stop time as of now.

Watching the world as life passes on. Mother earth and child of humanity, Sit atop the mountains of earth.

For my project I melted over fifty aluminum cans in a homemade foundry. My original idea for an artistic project was to create a globe that represented the Earth.

Throughout this course, I felt like I’ve been pushed to see things in a way that may be uncomfortable for me. When I saw the final project and different ideas I could do for it, I wanted to continue this trend of putting myself outside of my comfort zone....

The final poem, “Exponential Economic Growth,” uses some of the most impactful quotes from Dr. Davies’ Anthropocene lectures and arranges these quotes in a way which reflects to the reader the issue of exponential economic growth and its unsustainability....

This is my final project, it is a three foot by four foot painting I did of humanity picking the fruit of the taxonomic tree of life.

This is a song I wrote and produced called “What You Called Home” and it is about the different issues with things like climate change and economic inequality.

This project was inspired by the work of Giles Cenazandotti, who transformed plastic trash washed ashore from the ocean, into sculptures of recycled animals.

My piece is comprised of three panels, each displaying a different facet of society’s progression into inequity and natural crises. While learning about the Anthropocene, a piece I read from Friedrich Engles kept coming to mind.

I recently heard someone wise say that anything is possible in an emergency. The inconceivable becomes conceivable. In a state of emergency, we do what we have to in order to grapple with loss and protect what else could be taken.

Misteen English and I picked a poem by Sylvia Stults and composed an accompaniment that could fit with it, the result is a very beautiful and touching song!

For my project, I wanted to create something that would bring awareness to the bleaching of our ocean’s corals.

One of the things I struggle with the most, while coming to terms with my own realizations about human-caused climate change, is an ideological barrier that exists between me and nearly all of those I love.

Mother nature holds the world in her hands, but the climate crisis changes that fact. The earth is sick and hurting. If we continue the same path, we will reach a point of no return.

I decided to write a poem/story of a bleaching event from the perspective of a coral. I tried to imagine what being boiled alive felt like. How dying feels when you know that that’s it, it’s the end, and that no one will do anything.

I call this piece “Symbiotic Death”. Humans tend to decimate surrounding environments in an effort to achieve capital success in society. By doing so, we are effectively killing ourselves in the process.

There were a lot of people and animals that were affected by the fires, and it was sad to see that so much of the land was destroyed due to the fires. This picture is a way for me to reflect and to raise awareness for what I experienced while living there...

This project was designed to emphasize the impact of the positive and negative outcomes the Earth experiences due to climate change and the various influences we have learned about over the course of this semester.

I wanted to show the miraculous canyons that were once drowned. I picked linocut because I feel like there isn't a better medium than something so hands on and simple. I hope you feel as you look at it the same as it feels to be floating after a long day