Convocations
Sponsored by Office of the Provost and the Department of Student Involvement and Leadership
Rosalie Winard
September 20, 2012
12:00 pm
Allred Theater
Browning Center for the Performing Arts
The photographer will talk about her ongoing relationship with water birds as well as her photographs of them.
For over a decade, photographer Rosalie Winard has traveled the country by foot, canoe, airboat, and ATV, taking pictures of large birds of the wetlands from Florida to California, Louisiana to North Dakota. Her intimate portraits--tethered to an ethereal palette of white, gray, and black--are alight with Winard's passion for the avian world and its endangered terrain. Alternately meditative and exhilerating, abstract and literal, they capture the birds' remarkable habits and prehistoric forms, as well as their ineffable elegance and humor.
Artist's Website: http://www.rosaliewinard.com/
Sponsored by Office of the Provost and the Department of Student Involvement and Leadership
Andy Dufford: "Envisioning Water"
October 18, 2012
12:00 pm
Allred Theater
Browning Center for the Performing Arts
Water inhabits our land and our collective imagination. Artist Andy Dufford, creator of the Ogden River public art "Water Cycle," will discuss how art and imagination can help us understand and care for the watersheds that we each inhabit. A short stone carving demonstration will accompany the talk..
Artist’s statement:
The creation of artful spaces is my life's passion.
As a young man, I apprenticed with a painter and completed undergraduate work in design and community development. Traveling through Europe after university was a revelation. Walking through cities built with the skill of artists and artesanos expanded my imagination and creating beautiful places became my primary focus. That journey was the beginning of a much longer exploration that continues today.
Over the last 16 years I have developed a value system that guides our work. These core values are community, creativity, timelessness, and craft.
Artist's Website: http://www.chevostudios.com/#/home/
Sponsored by Office of the Provost and the Department of Student Involvement and Leadership
Sandra Steingraber
January 17, 2013
12:00 pm
Wildcat Theater
Shepherd Student Union
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health.
Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. Originally published in 1997, it was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from U.S. cancer registries and won praise from international media including The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Lancet, and The London Times.
Author's Website: http://steingraber.com/
Sponsored by Office of the Provost and the Department of Student Involvement and LeadershipDr. Daniel McCool: A New Water Ethic
February 21, 2013
12:00 pm
Wildcat Theater
Shepherd Student Union
(Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1983)
Professor of Political Science
Director, Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program
Co-director, University of Utah Sustainability Curriculum Development
Dr. McCool will review current water policy and explain how it has led to unsustainable water consumption, and describe a new water ethic that changes how we relate to both nature and each other in regard to water.
Website: http://faculty.utah.edu/u0029400-DANIEL_CRAIG_MCCOOL/biography/index.hml
Sponsored by Office of the Provost and the Department of Student Involvement and Leadership
Craig Childs: Unbroken Waters: Adventures on a Fluid Planet
March 14, 2013
12:00 pm
Room 113
Browning Center for the Performing Arts
Craig Childs is a writer who focuses on natural sciences, archaeology, and remarkable journeys into the wilderness. He has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure. He is a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside, Orion, and High Country News. His subjects range from pre-Columbian archaeology to US border issues to the last free-flowing rivers of Tibet and Patagonia.
Sponsored by Office of the Provost and the Department of Student Involvement and Leadership