Biodesign Challenge! Special Topics: Sculpture 50:080:490

What is the Biodesign Challenge? The Biodesign Challenge offers art and design students the opportunity to envision future applications of biotechnology in a competition that highlights student work. Our organizers connect classrooms with a team of biologists and experts at GenSpace  to guide the students as they develop their ideas. At the end of the … Continue reading Biodesign Challenge! Special Topics: Sculpture 50:080:490

Art & Urban Sustainability–RU-C Spring 2018

I am thrilled to report that Mary Mattingly, the internatinally acclaimed eco and community artist, will be teaching Art & Urban Sustainability in Spring 2018.  This innovative, hands-on class is cross listed between the Department of Fine Arts and Urban Studies. Students in the class won the 2016 Technically Brooklyn Art and Innovation Award for Artist … Continue reading Art & Urban Sustainability–RU-C Spring 2018

Art and Urban Sustainability: Swale in Camden

The Art and Urban Sustainability Spring 2018 class is focusing on initiatives to realize Swale, a giant floating edible forrest, in Camden NJ. This invites residents to grow and harvest edible plants and produce in an urban context. In realizing Swale in Camden, we aim to create a replicable set of best practices for food resiliency … Continue reading Art and Urban Sustainability: Swale in Camden

Kinetic Sculpture: programmable, interactive objects

I am so please to be offering Kinetic Sculpture: programmable, interactive objects 50:080:214: 01 in Fall 2017. This class meets Mon/Wed 9:35-10:55 in Fine Arts Building Rm 103. Open to everybody, Kinetic Sculpture is a beginning class in programming and sculpture. I hope you will join us fro this fun, hands-on, class covers interactive objects, wearables, robotics, and … Continue reading Kinetic Sculpture: programmable, interactive objects

SkypeOnArt/SkypeOnSustainability Lecture Series

Rutgers–Camden Presents “SkypeOnArt/SkypeOnSustainability” this Spring 2017 Rutgers–Camden will become the central hub for interactive, online conversations with nationally and internationally renowned artists, as it presents “SkypeonArt” this spring.  This semester’s lineup includes discussions about sustainability as it relates to eco art, public art, community art and Camden, NJ. The SkypeOnArt talks give RU Camden an … Continue reading SkypeOnArt/SkypeOnSustainability Lecture Series

AESS Panel 2017, Environment, Wellness, and Community: Eco Art and Water

I’m thrilled to be proposing a panel for the Association of Environmental Science Studies which will be at the University of Arizona in Tuscan, AZ this June. Please come join us! It should be a great symposium. The title, presenters and panel overview is below. Best! Eliz   Environment, Wellness, and Community: Eco Art and … Continue reading AESS Panel 2017, Environment, Wellness, and Community: Eco Art and Water