2024 Works - 2024

For my final project, I made a zine to put in cafe Ibis. This semester, I thought a lot about my own climate grief and that of the people around me. I’m surrounded, at least at school, by people who understand the challenges we face in a human centric wor...

The inspiration for our project was the painting “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted between 1851 and 1852, both in Surrey and in London (intext). Millais got his inspiration from the Shakespear play “Hamlet”, and the death of the charac...

In a culture of corporate greed and deception towards consumers, my poster aims to strip away the illusions and confront viewers with the uncomfortable truth of greenwashing. I wanted to use discomfort and unease as tools to make my audience question the

In "Fertile Earth," I explore the intricacies between birth rates, fertility, and human population dynamics within the context of the Anthropocene era. This sculpture, crafted from plaster, embodies the essence of a pregnant female torso as a symbol of li...

For this piece, I wanted to focus on the endangered species that exist in the world currently. I know many often forget about the beautiful animals and plants that are at risk of extinction, so I wanted to capture that beauty with my favorite medium which...

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.

Changing systems and ways of life is critical to living on a sustainable, just, and vibrant Earth. For these systems to work we must accept that our western, high-consumption ways of life will need to change.

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...

In this artistic creation, I confront the duplicity inherent in the messaging of major corporations, where lofty promises diverge sharply from tangible practices. Through a critical lens, I expose the incongruity exemplified by BP, whose purported "green"...

While thinking about this project, I had the idea to write a small story depicting two primates arguing at the gates of heaven.

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...

The topic I wanted to focus on was biodiversity loss. Biodiversity loss is an issue that spans across the entire planet and presents huge problems for our world.

Throughout class this semester I have been both concerned by the incredible loss of biodiversity- particularly in agriculture and food systems- and intrigued by the idea of regenerative farming.

The focus for my project is on evolving climate and environmental degration created by human actions. The series of 10 photos will juxtapose natural landscapes and objects with their unnatural counterparts, such as trash besides a vibrant flower.

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.

This piece is titled “Heartland to Landfill” and is based on waste produced by the meat and specifically beef industry.

For this final project I did a printmaking project. In the image you can see a calf's ear with an ear tag in it. I chose to have the number 23 on the ear tag as that is the number one of the calves had on its ear tag when I visited a farm a few months ago...

I had a really hard time with this project. I am not comfortable expressing myself through art, especially for a grade. Nevertheless, I wanted to attempt the project and see how I did. I feel the most confident in expressing myself through writing. I deci...

Trash Heaven is a piece inspired by a dream my maternal grandmother, Meg had. In her dream, she has died and is being guided to heaven by an angel.

Our project, Ripple Effect, calls attention to Utah's Shrinking Great Salt Lake. The bison made from water-intensive and recycled materials, symbolizes the unintended consequences of human overconsumption and the impacts on wildlife and the environment.

While there are no laws of physics preventing us from minimizing our consumption, sometimes breaking the soft barriers (e.g. consumption culture) around these issues can seem almost as impossible as breaking the laws of physics. The best way to promote ch...

I chose to use my experience in painting to help cast a light on the rapidly changing climate. Using a limited color palette to help convey the bleak future was a deliberate choice. Blues/gray are the colors I attach to the ever devolving situation we fin...

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.

For my final project, I was inspired by the class period we had talking about growth. This topic in particular caused me to reflect on my own inpact in the fight for climate change.

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...

This project is a circular punch needle rug depicting our island planet. On one side of the globe, the oceans and continents are blue and green. On the other, the globe is fading into shades of gray. The two parts of the globe are held together by two Ban...

I don’t normally like to speak on my art, as I believe that everyone has the right to their own interpretation. This piece represents a near future dystopia in which our species has completely ignored its impact on our planet. The robot on the left repres...

As we continue to move towards an ever-increasing disconnect between what we need to sustain us, and what we have, there are many questions that arise.

Life is all about choices and it's those choices that led us to the worldly state we are in currently and that was the overarching message I got from this course.

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.

The Bluebuck is an extinct species of antelope. They lived in South Africa until about 1800, when the last of the species were hunted and killed by people. Their numbers were already dwindling, but people finished them off.

Throughout this class, I found the topic of food systems the most fascinating. It’s wild that agriculture, something so necessary for our survival, causes such an impact on the environment.

Learning about our planetary boundaries made me realize just how powerful a force humanity really is now. Overstepping these limits/boundaries is not only problematic but nearing catastrophic for life on our planet Earth. Including ours.

My final project was a solo project that utilized the artform of painting in order to represent 4 out of the 9 planetary boundaries that represent our planet’s natural systems.

Over the span of this course, we have talked about the effects that we as humans have had on the earth. There are thousands of ways that our existence and choices have impacted the regular progression of the earth.

The project that I created for this class is I created a marketing plan for a business that plants trees. I remember talking about in class how trees can really make such a huge change to our planet and wanted my project to reflect that.

This is a poem that I wrote about what I have seen and felt during my semester in my Unveiling the Anthropocene class. I want this poem to create emotion in the person reading it.

As a devoted landscape painter who seeks to bring representational art making into modernity, I acutely examine human effect on landscape and the multiplicity of reaching between man-made establishments and nature.

For my final project I wanted to take the opportunity to teach people about what kind of environmental impact they can have, since I have learned a popular feeling in my generation is helplessness when it comes to this stuff.

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?

I initially decided to work on a collage that had something to do with biodiversity. A couple weeks after deciding that, I was driving home from Preston and in between Hyde Park and Logan, I drove upon a scene that made me very angry.

For my final project, I was inspired by the class period we had talking about growth. This topic in particular caused me to reflect on my own inpact in the fight for climate change.

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...

For my project I constructed a sculpture reminiscent of the Image from Nebuchadnezzar's dream in the book of Daniel in the Old Testament. My inspiration came from a handful of sources, primarily my own religious beliefs, the crisis I see the world in, and...

For my project, I wrote a series of poems discussing projected effects for certain ecological features (such as the Amazon Rainforest and Coral Reefs). I wrote about what would happen to them if we did not “save” them, I.E, reduce carbon emissions and eli...

The compulsive need for an activity, behavior, or substance that results in harmful effects is the definition of addiction. As someone who has personally struggled within the grasp of a nicotine addiction, I know first-hand how entangled one gets in the l...

I used second-hand mugs and tea cups to make a Solar System, painting each cup like a planet. Including the Sun, and Pluto there were ten in total. I wanted to do physical painting because Earth had limited resources. We have to reduce our planetary intak...

Giving the pressing exigence of a withering world, we felt compelled to produce a metaphor to illustrate the alacrity at which our planet is perishing. To do so, we decided to paint a picture of the Earth, representing the time it took to form a climate s...

Something that stuck out to me in this class was how we kept talking about how we went from a “small world on a big planet” to a “big world on a small planet.” This made me think about my hometown and how it used to be this big open place with a few house...

Greenwashing, as defined by Merriam-Webster is, “the act or practice of making a product, policy, activity, etc. appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is.”

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.

My project is a manta ray crocheted out of respun yarn. It is approximately the size of a manta pup after birth, three feet across. Adults measure around 22 feet. This project was inspired by the film Racing Extinction in which an Indonesian village, Lama...

My project is meant to portray some different ecosystems that we have impacted. If we don't make a change, we could ruin these ecosystems permanently. We are in the 11th hour.

My project is meant to portray some different ecosystems that we have impacted. If we don't make a change, we could ruin these ecosystems permanently. We are in the 11th hour.