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NEST Studio for the Arts recently unveiled new public artwork on the exterior of the CASE building and at . The murals, which are accessible and visible from socially-distanced, outside environments, will be on display through December. 

For more information on the work featured as part of the NEST Fall Gallery Showcase visit the .

Pictured: Visiting Artist Nina Elder works on her crowd-sourced piece, PERMANENT/TRANSITORY, in collaboration with NEST and the Dairy Arts Center.

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Happy Earth Day!

As environmental Buffs may know, this year鈥檚 celebration is extra special, as it鈥檚 the 50th anniversary of the annual event, which was first celebrated in 1970. Head to the 麻豆免费版下载Boulder Environmental Center鈥檚 website to see how our campus is celebrating virtually. 

CMCI has long been a hub of environmentally-focused research, reporting, outreach and creative work. This work takes place through several of our centers and initiatives, including the Center for Environmental Journalism, which has facilitated in-depth environmental reporting since its establishment in 1992; , which provides increased coverage of Western water issues; the Grand Challenge-funded Nature, Environment, Science and Technology Studio for the Arts (NEST), which combines aesthetic practices and scientific research; and the Center for Communication and Democratic Engagement, which includes focuses on climate justice and community engagement, and more. Throughout the college, we鈥檙e proud of our multimedia storytellers, reporters, researchers and activists working to create awareness, engagement and positive change. 

Here鈥檚 our top 10 Earth Day reads鈥撯�搃n order of publication date鈥撯�揻eaturing CMCI students, faculty, fellows and staff. 

• Earlier this month, Department of Communication Associate Professor Phaedra Pezzullo co-hosted the webinar "Power Dialog: Climate Solutions for Colorado," which featured remarks from Gov. Jared Polis. You can still watch a , or read the top five takeaways, written by alumnus and 麻豆免费版下载science writer Kelsey Simpkins (MJour鈥�18). You can also read about Pezzullo鈥檚 work with CU鈥檚 Just Transition Collaborative in our CMCI Now story, 鈥�#笔辞飞别谤别诲叠测罢丑别笔别辞辫濒别.鈥� (March 30, 2020)

• In this piece for the Colorado Sun, CEJ Scripps Fellow Sharon Udasin between the city of Denver and San Luis, Mexico, in their efforts to both restore the Colorado River鈥檚 flow and create greenspaces to connect the two cities. (Feb. 24, 2020)

• As actors like Joaquin Phoenix, Jane Fonda and Leonardo DiCaprio continue to speak out about a range of climate issues, Department of Media Studies Scholar-in-Residence Hunter Vaughan says their own industry takes a massive toll on the environment. Check out this 麻豆免费版下载Boulder Today article by Lisa Marshall鈥撯�揅U鈥檚 senior science writer and a master鈥檚 student in the Department of Journalism鈥撯�搕o learn why Vaughan says that pollution may be 鈥淗ollywood鈥檚 Dirtiest Secret.鈥� (Jan 27, 2020)

• This year, former CEJ Scripps Fellow David Mayfield鈥檚 project, as the world鈥檚 largest environmental survey. Read about it in this CEJ article by Julia Barnes, a master鈥檚 student in the Department of Journalism. (Feb. 14, 2020)

• While reporting for KGNU, Department of Journalism master鈥檚 student Alejandra Wilcox where she spoke with Water Commissioner Scott Hummer, who is responsible for overseeing water usage amid increasingly tight regulations. (Dec. 18, 2019)

• In this longform piece for , former Scripps Fellow Stephen Miller examined the tension between Arizona鈥檚 growing aridity and the economic forces its farmers are enduring because of it. (Nov. 12, 2019)

• Scripps Fellow Antonia Juhasz shined a spotlight on the activism and racial inequalities in 鈥淐ancer Alley,鈥� a toxic 85-mile stretch in Louisiana lined with petrochemical facilities. (Oct. 23, 2019)

• Writing for , former Scripps Fellow Peter Brannen argued forcefully against calling the age in which we live 鈥渢he anthropocene鈥濃�撯�揳 term coined by scientists to describe the geological time humans have inhabited, and re-shaped, the earth. (Aug. 13, 2019)

• Here in Boulder, alumna Moe Clark (MJour鈥�19), now a reporter at the Colorado Sun, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research is one of many in a nationwide network scientists are using to measure the effects of ground-level ozone. (Aug. 12, 2019)

• While reporting for Mongabay, former Scripps Fellow and current CMCI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team member Chris Lett explored how In addition to writing and reporting this longform piece, Lett contributed photos of Ethiopian women carrying huge bundles of fuelwood on their backs. (March 20, 2019)

   Bonus! Last year, Department of Communication PhD student and fellow graduate students Robert Buehler and Mathew Sharples collaborated with NEST to create a Campus Field Guide. Today, in hopes that people can use it to explore their own backyards. (April 22, 2020)

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Assistant Professor Erin Espelie鈥撯�揳long with Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek, Art and Art History Assistant Professor Brianne Cohen, and Director of the Center for Native and Indigenous Studies Andrew Cowell鈥撯�揾as been awarded a $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a Sawyer Seminar at 麻豆免费版下载Boulder on the comparative study of cultures entitled, Deep Horizons: Making Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties & Prospects. This is the first year 麻豆免费版下载Boulder has participated in this competition, making the award an especially remarkable accomplishment. 

As co-faculty director of the Nature, Environment, Science and Technology Studio for the Arts (NEST), Espelie also co-curated the exhibit Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, and Future) at the 麻豆免费版下载Art Museum. In addition, she had solo film shows in London, Montreal and New Mexico and was featured in Sublimity as Document, published in 2019 by Oxford University Press.

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NEST Embryonic Exhibition

Opens: Sept. 21

Viewable from: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and by appointment through Dec. 21.

Location: Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE)
1725 Euclid Ave.

A new 麻豆免费版下载 exhibit opening Friday, Sept. 21 highlights the symbiosis of artistic and scientific thinking.

, the premiere exhibit for the , includes paintings, sculpture and multimedia such as polymeric 鈥渆mbryos,鈥� an alternative barn swallow habitat and silk batiks created by a geologist and artist to demonstrate the fragility of the barrier islands.

This exhibit, a free public event, opens Friday at 11 a.m. with a welcome event at noon and includes tours that will run until 5 p.m. in the Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE) at 1725 Euclid Ave. Embryonic will also be viewable from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and by appointment through Dec. 21.

鈥淣EST combines artistic practice and scientific research to explore our common and disparate ways of observing, recording, experimenting and knowing,鈥� said Tara Knight, an associate professor in the College of Media, Communication and Information鈥檚 .

Launched with 麻豆免费版下载Boulder Grand Challenge funding, NEST is led by Knight and co-investigator Erin Espelie, an assistant professor in DCMP and the Department of Cinema Studies. Joining them is scholar-in-residence Jorge Perez-Gallego, an astronomer, designer and educator with a Ph.D. in astronomy and an M.F.A. in design. 

They are working with more than 20 institutional and individual partners鈥攊ncluding BioFrontiers Institute, the 麻豆免费版下载Museum of Natural History, the 麻豆免费版下载Art Museum and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)鈥攖o exhibit work; create new courses; conduct cross-disciplinary research; and co-host exhibits, events and workshops across campus and beyond.

NEST recently awarded graduate student fellowships to nine pairs of artists and scientists who will work on joint projects that will be displayed at the exhibit. For example, Camila Friedman-Gerliczb, an MFA candidate in Art and Art History, and Aaron Lamplugh, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, incorporated porous materials such as activated carbon into ceramic surfaces to create simple and elegant air-cleaning art pieces that can be used in nail salons and other toxic indoor environments.

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