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Earth Day Parade: Get Involved!

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You are cordially invited to the Living Art and Ecology Lab’s 2025 Earth Day Parade. Join us in celebrating the Earth!

Flyer for our Earth Day Parade. All information on the flyer is also written out as text in the body of the blogpost

What: We are hosting a parade in honor of Earth Day and invite you to join us! Together with various classes, student organizations, and partners from across campus, the parade is composed of costumes, banners, and floats dedicated to the soil, air, and waters upon which we all depend for our shared existence. This event is a celebration of joy for everything that makes life on this floating blue marble possible!

When: April 22nd, 2025 at 4pm – see schedule details.

Where: Meet on the South Oval. Parade starts at 4:30, from the East end of Mirror Lake and moving towards Iuka Ravine.

How: For a simple way to join, show up on the South Oval wearing blue, green, or brown to represent the Earth. Costumes relating to the spirit of the event are also encouraged. Interested in building a float, carrying a banner, or coordinating involvement for your student org? We request that you submit an interest form here and read the guidelines enclosed.

Who: Current collaborators in this celebration include the Living Art & Ecology Lab’s Lichen Likers and Lost Waters research groups; SUSTAINs Living Community; Facilities, Operations, and Development; Planning, Architecture, and Real Estate, The Emerging Technology Studio; Knowlton School of Architecture; The Soil Culture Group; Art 5101 Eco Art Class; Art 3001 and 4503 Glass Classes; Design 4650 Collaborative Design Studio

Earth Day Art celebration website with more info

“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”  –Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

 

Call for Applications: May Field Course “Regional Relations” (Art 5890)

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Department of Art Faculty and LAEL Working Group Members Dionne Lee and Dani ReStack will be leading a May semester field course this summer, titled Regional Relations.

Course Description:

Split into two parts, this course consists of a two-week field season (5/7-5/20) through Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky followed by a studio intensive in response to research conducted in the field. Our travels and study will coalesce around ideas of foreignness and belonging through engagement with Indigenous, Black, and Appalachian histories and contemporary frameworks, regional ecology, feminist geographies, animal welfare, and the relationship between human intervention and the evolving nature of our planet. We will visit regional forests, sites of ecological catastrophe, coal mines, “livestock” farms, the bell hooks center, and more. Throughout the field season the class will lodge outdoors, camping in national and regional parks.

Students will engage with interdisciplinary site responses through seminars, writing, discussion, critical looking and art modalities: image making, sound recordings, video, recording observations in sketchbooks, etc. Following the course will be a class presentation/exhibition in fall 2025.

To Apply: Submit a short essay (~600 words) describing how this course and collaborative learning experience would impact your research to instructors Dionne Lee (lee.10163@osu.edu) and Dani ReStack (restack.1@osu.edu) by March 1.

Who Should Apply: This class is interdisciplinary at its core. We welcome art and non-art students alike who find this course to be in alignment with their research.

Please note this class will require camping, moderate to strenuous hiking, setting up camp, and cooking meals together.

This field course is made possible through the support of the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Field School initiative

We Are Hiring Students!

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The Living Art and Ecology Lab is Hiring!

We are looking for ten undergraduate students to assist on two interdisciplinary research projects this year.

Photo of the Lichen Likers student-faculty group from last year, pictured with a 3D lichen model they created using augmented reality

Learning Lichen is an artistic research project supported by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme of Care, Culture, and Justice.  The project aims to promote public awareness of the valuable relationship between humans, non-humans, and our shared environment through combining art and science practices. This project is a continuation of the Lichen Likers project from 2024, which you can learn about here: https://u.osu.edu/lichen/. We are hiring six (6) Student Research Assistants to collaborate with faculty and staff in exploring the topic described above. Four (4) student assistants will focus on workshop development and art research while two (2) will focus on the media design through digital documentation and storytelling. Faculty Advisors for this project are Amy Youngs and Doo-sung Yoo in the Department of Art.

Link to Apply: https://www.myworkday.com/osu/d/inst/15$151691/9925$254268.htmld

 

Lost Waters is a collaborative project to investigate changes to the South Oval Landscape across time, centering around the disappearance of Neil Run stream in the 1890s. Two teams of students will be hired to assist on this project: one focused on researching changes to the landscape, and the other focused on using this data to create an Augmented Reality artwork visualizing these changes. This research and artwork will help contextualize modern environmental conditions on campus, focusing on how hydrological changes have impacted ecosystem services and local biodiversity. This project is supported by an Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP) grant. Faculty Advisors for this project are Amy Youngs (Department of Art) and Jake Boswell (Landscape Architecture).

Link to Apply (Landscape Research): https://www.myworkday.com/osu/d/inst/15$392530/9925$254253.htmld

Link to Apply (Art and Tech): https://www.myworkday.com/osu/d/inst/15$151691/9925$254221.htmld

 

To apply to these projects or to learn more about each position, students should follow the links provided. You will be asked to enter your OSU login credentials to access the job postings.

 

The deadline to apply to these positions is listed as August 21st, but we may continue to accept applications until the end of the month.

 

Any questions can be sent to the Living Art and Ecology Lab Specialist Emma Kline at Kline.434@osu.edu.