Students Take Back The Tap

This is a great initiative: I love tap water campaign

Students are vying for $1,500 and making a pitch to their campuses to kick the bottled water habit.

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So how effective are arts in communicating about climate change and environmental issues in general?

We can’t know for sure. But what is certain is that art has the potential to move us. As Karen Raney, editor of engage: the international journal of visual art and gallery education writes, “One reason art can work so powerfully on our perceptions is that artists tend to link different spheres and orders of experience.”

As we struggle increasingly to bridge the gaps between urgent, planetary crises and public engagement and political inertia, the turn to arts as a viable mode of communication makes sense. It’s not about being didactic; it’s about trying to make coherent that which is, on some levels, unthinkable.

On a related note, in lieu of the class canceled on Wednesday October 15th, you will read Learning Deficiency by Joel Towers [PDF] and write answers to the questions posted on Blackboard by Friday October 17th.