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For our project, we decided to compare high end and affordable design in sustainable and unsustainable categories. To do this, we designed four different living rooms each showing adifferent category.

Can you hear me now? | I’m screaming out | You need me | I need you | Beyond a doubt | So I ask can you hear me now?

For our final project, we decided to individually write a poem and play our respective instruments over it (Morgan on the guitar and Carlin on the piano).

This project is titled “The Butterfly Effect.” The Butterfly effect is the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere.

What interested me most in this semester was observing and watching how people react and take action to the climate crisis. I noticed that there is a lot of pessimism and it’s easy to see why.

Something that impacted me this semester was the idea that everyone can contribute to a more sustainable society and that we can all do it in our own ways

How do we define the state of the earth? Is it thriving, or dying? To better access this very question, scientists divided the earth into nine planetary boundaries. These boundaries are climate, land systems, biodiversity, fresh water, ocean chemistry, no...

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

There are many heartbreaking changes happening to the environment in our world today. Illegal poaching, deforestation, ocean pollution; the list goes on.

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’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!

While preparing to paint this piece I thought a lot about the mood I wanted to evoke while the viewer took it all in. I struggled with this for a while, because I couldn’t decide if I wanted to show hope for our future or regret for our past. In the end I...

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

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...

For this final project I decided to write a poem highlighting some of my favorite animals and the challenges they are facing because of human influence.

I would tell a peice of this story through my passion of graphic design. I designed a poster brochure about the meat diet in hopes of encouraging everyone to eat less meat.

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...

My collage outlines the threat to the coral reefs. At the bottom of the artwork, we can see colorful and healthy coral; as the coral moves toward the top, it dies.

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...

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.

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...

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.

This piece was done in watercolor and it represents all the abundant resources that we are currently using up. However it also represents the various emotions that come with overconsumption

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...

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...

My final project is a comic strip that shows a man telling a young boy about climate change. It addresses problems and gives solutions that are helpful.

This is a multimedia piece that is 24” x 20” that consists of charcoal, acrylic paint, and ink. The words that I have running down the right side of the composition say, “There is no need to worry O planitis mas pethainei”.

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...

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.

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...

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...

This project is a series of 5 posters of original artwork. I was motivated to make these posters so that people could be educated and intrigued to want to learn more about saving the earth.

I decided to create a simple children’s story, written and drawn on a tablet. This children’s story depicts the creation of the world, and all the work that went into it. The world went through a lot to get it to the state that it’s in, a state that’s per...

Among the most impactful things I’ve learned in this class include our units on hyper-consumerism and the system of linear production.

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.

I have been crocheting these reusable grocery bags for a while and when learning about how severe the oceans been impacted, I thought a fishing net would start conversation about it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"...

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.

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.

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.

I was inspired to write a poem after watching documentaries such as Chasing Ice, Time to Choose, The Biggest Little Farm, and the film The End of Poverty?.

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...

“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

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.

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...

In this display of visual art, over 25 paper snowflakes are strung together on red string. These snowflakes are each different, and all precariously strung to create a bigger picture.

Given my lack of artistic ability, I decided to challenge myself with this project and write a poem titled Home about agriculture. I’ve never been great at poetry but I felt that it always was able to speak to me.

Though I am no musician, I believe music is a powerful way to tell a story. With my short andsimple composition, I tell the story of the world, our Earth.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

This piece is called Pathways. It seems that we have found ourselves at the crossroads to two drastically different futures. One where we take a step back to address our relationship with the environment. Where we work to protect and grow the wilderness w...

I was inspired to create this piece when I learned that if everyone on the planet was to live like the average American, we would need about 5 planets earths.

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 decided to use and improve upon my graphic design skills by using that as my medium for this project. I started off by finding some inspiration on Pinterest.

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 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...

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.

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.

For my final project, I crocheted climate data from 1970-2019. This project comprises 600 data points from the past five decades showing the median monthly temperature for each month of each year, recorded in Salt Lake City by the Salt Lake Weather Servic...

We decided to do an art project that many people can see. We did our chalk art in one of the tunnels at USU.

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.

I was inspired by the 2020 fires in Australia for this project. Global warming has drastically increased the amount of wildfires we have experienced in the past decade and I wanted to show a wildfire in a forest of pine trees because those are the trees h...

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.

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.

With my project, an illustrated GIF, I wanted to show that our choices are what will determine our worlds fate. Because this is such a broad concept to communicate, I wanted to simplify the visual representation as much as possible.

Something that stood out to me the most in this course was the statement “Greenland is lost” Originally the statement was said to explain the path that Antarctica is headed to if we don’t change things soon.

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

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...

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.

I have always liked the idea of time capsules and being able to capture moments for future generations. In this class we have learned that the Earth has already changed so much since humans came on the scene and started industrializing and creating the wo...

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 used a poem as my medium in an attempt to connect the audience to the reality of our climate situation. I wanted to relate the damage we do as a society, to that of a smoker and their lungs.

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.

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.

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...

“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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

As artists, Sheridan and I thought it would be helpful to have our work explore the intersection between humanity and the natural world. In particular, this current project focuses on the urgent issue of deforestation, and the devastating impact it has on...

This photograph shows just a small snapshot of the natural beauty of this world in the shape of a heart. If we don’t show this world some love back, these wonders will disappear.

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.

My accordion art piece represents a dichotomy between two possible futures for our planet. On one side, we see a vibrant and prosperous city where people are able to move around freely without the use of cars or other fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

We drew this in the tunnel at USU so that as many people could see it as possible. It’s a simple message but powerful nonetheless. People can see it as they walk by and be reminded to make small choices to help the earth

When discussing the topics of this class with my roommate I was talking about how our systems we currently use are unsustainable, and I said our systems are failing. My roommate responded, 'I wouldn't say we're failing.

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...

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....

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.

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...

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

For my project, I decided to write a short story from the perspective of a plant. (It ended up being 13 pages so I don’t know if it’s really short). I wanted to create a sense of melancholy to show how life is and suddenly upend everything with a tragedy

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.

My final project consists of creating a visual depiction of the record-breaking numbers we have discussed in class and I have researched concerning carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, animal scarcity, coral reef bleaching, deforestation, and more.

Throughout many years as an avid hiker, backpacker, and camper, I’ve experienced the frustration of seeing beautiful places torn down from construction and have had to deal with the invasive views and sounds that come along with it.

I was affected by some of the horticultural aspects of our planet’s needs. I am interestedin fostering biodiversity, researching intercropping, and promoting soil health. I wanted to createpieces which show illustrations of plant life.

In class we watched a documentary on biodiversity loss that featured a Hawaiian birdcalled the Kaua’i’ō'ō bird that went extinct. We were especially touched by the sequence thatdepicted the last of its species at mating season calling for a mate that no l...

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?”.

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.

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...

I decided to do my project on the oil refineries, specifically the ones that surround Salt Lake City. These refineries have been one of the highest contributors to air pollution in the SLC area since the early 1900’s.

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...

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.

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.

Butterflies have always been a favorite species of mine and I never realized that their existence could be at risk.

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

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.

For my final project, I decided to coordinate the beginning of an annual event for The Suites community on campus. This annual event will be an artist market and each year there will be a theme.

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.

From the air we breathe to the ground we walk on, it’s no doubt that humans take the land and environment for granted. I often think about the context and impact of my choices surrounding the environment and what it means to be sustainable.

Our project is a collection of recipes and some tips towards becoming more sustainable in our everyday lives!

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 creation of this piece was inspired by the highs and lows of human existence. In the grand scheme of living on this Earth and coexisting with other beings and the biggest challenge of all, other humans, many things clash and simultaneously work in har...

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.

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.

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!

Throughout this class, I was struck with the though, “It’s about systems, not villains.”

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.

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.

This piece represents the resources that Mother Earth once had and how the human touch has diminished Her bounty. The Anthropocene has left an effect on our world, and we are using resources faster than is sustainable for the future.

The vision behind my project, "Voices of the Earth," is to showcase the interconnectedness of our world and the various perspectives that shape our understanding of the Anthropocene.

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...

I chose to focus my final project on the decline of the world’s ocean and the bleaching of corals. I decided to write these poems in hope to create awareness of the importance of the world’s oceans and corals.

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.

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.

One of the topics from this course that particularly struck a nerve with me was about the reality of our food and agricultural systems, particularly in the United States.

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.

My final project is a Stereoscope depicting a nature setting inside of a painted black box. Real bark and flowers were used to create the scene. Stereoscopes were objects that people in the 1800s used to look at interesting images whether it was places th...

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.

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.

This multimedia collage piece is called the Long Drive. It was created by combining different kinds of images, magazines, photos, and drawing into one cohesive piece.

Unintentional human impacts on the climate are causing detrimental impacts to biodiversity, an atmospheric change in temperature, and deterioration of the environment.

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.

It may have seemed that while I was in class, I would push against the material that was being taught. I hope I never came off that I was trying to pick a fight just for the sake of picking a fight. I feel my intentions were pure as I tried to learn more

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...

Eat Mor Chikin* is a poster/brochure made as an information and commentary piece for anyone who consumes factory bred and “farmed” chicken.

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

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.

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.

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?

This piece was written to show how speculative climate fiction is not just fiction. It is a warning. This story is based on actual events/experiences during the dust bowl which took place roughly from 1930 – 1940.

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.

I love poetry and this earth so I decided to combine the two for my final project. My poem was inspired by the intrinsically breathtaking phenomenons that make our world so beautiful and enjoyable to live in.

For this piece I was thinking about the way modern technologies and civilization have taken over nature and the land that was once something else. Animals are living along side skyscrapers and structures.

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.

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 performed Stephen Mitton’s piece for string quartet titled “Juvenoia”.

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.

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.

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...

I’ve written a few poems that vent my frustrations about the current state of the world. My writing may come off as nihilistic, pessimistic, and edgy (like heavy Shadow the Hedgehog edgy), but I really do have some hope for the future.

This board game was inspired by the climate crisis. It is meant to express the importance of working together to create a society in which we all must live.

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 whole world is singing, clicking, grinding, whistling, and thumping… but we’ve stopped listening.” I have always loved the beautiful sounds of nature. From the smallest of critters to the large whales in the sea, I believe the creatures on this earth...

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...

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...

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.

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.

For my project, I decided to depict the negative effects of urban societies on more rural ones. I decided to paint on a thrifted vinyl record so that I would not contribute more to the waste that is created in order to do this project.

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...

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...

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...

Recently I spent 19 months living in Alaska and each day I was amazed by the beauty that was in my view everywhere I went. It allowed me to appreciate nature even more and grew my desire to take care of the earth.

This is based on the video we've seen, where a city is pretty close to where a giraffe out in the wild is. My picture shows a forest growing, and a big city creeping up behind.

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.

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 title of this piece is, “Honey, I’m Home!” It is composed of paper collage and pen and ink. The concept of externalities was my inspiration for this piece.

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, I chose to do three watercolor paintings - one of a starry sky, another of beautiful ocean animals, and the last of a flower garden.

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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 am an artistic person, that is how I like to express myself, but I didn’t want to do a boring old painting or drawing which was my original idea. Then, one day as I was thinking about what to do,

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...

This piece is two panels of oil on canvas. When creating this diptych, I would sit with both canvases in front of me on easels and I would paint a section at a time moving back and forth between the two canvases. Whatever I did to one canvas I would try t...

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.

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.

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.

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...

One thing I often see in multiple settings in life is that we teach people that we need to teach people to do things and why to do them, but we never really teach them how to do it.

As artists, Grant and I thought it would be helpful to have our work explore the intersection between humanity and the natural world. In particular, this current project focuses on the urgent issue of deforestation, and the devastating impact it has on ou...

This semester I had the opportunity to go to Hawaii. I was able to see how our carbon footprint is impacting the coral around the island. The coral close to the shore looked like rocks and lacked a variety of wildlife.

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

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...

“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,...

“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).

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 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

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 final project I wanted to write a short story. I love the story of a Christmas Carol so I decided to kind of parody that. I wrote a Crisis Carol about what might happen if people were able to be visited by three spirits to see the effects of what w...

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...

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 favorite form of art has long been poetry. I’ve always had a passion for it, which was begun by my Grandpa when I was very young. If any of his grandkids could memorize certain poems, he’d give them a five dollar bill.

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...

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.

Throughout the semester, I took class notes like most students. However, I also took notes on anything that was interesting to me artistically, as a songwriter.

While many North Americans are accustomed to living their lives in or around suburban expansion, I am fascinated by the efficiency and pace of the ever-present construction around me. Growing up in Brazil, I have always been interested in the aesthetics o...

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.

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

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.