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Artists Jackie Brown & Erin Mallea in the Jannotta Gallery
August 23, 2021
Two artists are now showing in the Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall. Jackie Brown’s primary focus is on sculpture installation. In Malleable And Changeable, she combines three previous installations and invites viewers into imagined biological systems where it can often be hard to tell if the forms are healthy or harmful growths. Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. In Refuge, she examines the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and explores the past and present of particular microcosms as metaphors for larger human and environmental conditions. July 26th-September 24th, Daily.
Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Events at Smith

Artists Jackie Brown & Erin Mallea in the Jannotta Gallery
August 30, 2021
Two artists are now showing in the Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall. Jackie Brown’s primary focus is on sculpture installation. In Malleable And Changeable, she combines three previous installations and invites viewers into imagined biological systems where it can often be hard to tell if the forms are healthy or harmful growths. Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. In Refuge, she examines the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and explores the past and present of particular microcosms as metaphors for larger human and environmental conditions. July 26th-September 24th, Daily.
Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

The Housing Revolution Starts at Home
September 2, 2021
With Dr. Anaid Yerena, Associate Professor, The School of Urban Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Current approaches to affordable housing focus on policy and legislative strategies that explicitly uphold White dominant culture and perpetuate capitalist practices and legacies of settler-colonialism while undermining and erasing the knowledge, innovation, and social contributions of Indigenous, Black, and individuals from other marginalized communities. These practices and legacies fuel the current housing crisis in the U.S. My work argues that to counteract these forces, we must decolonize housing by identifying approaches to shelter that support community resilience, particularly in times of crisis. I examine examples from different cultures, in particular, those from indigenous peoples, and the Global South. I take stock of the many modes of shelter that are possible beyond the hegemonic model of housing that clings to individualistic approaches. This work supports the radical imagination needed to change how we address the shelter needs of all members of society and contribute to a future that centers healing, justice, and dismantles systems of oppression. Dr. Yerena holds a Ph.D. in Planning, Policy and Design from the University of California Irvine. Her scholarship focuses on housing, community development, social inequality, and urban governance in the U.S. and Mexico.
UMASS Olver Design Building, Room 170
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Events at Smith

Artists Jackie Brown & Erin Mallea in the Jannotta Gallery
September 7, 2021
Two artists are now showing in the Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall. Jackie Brown’s primary focus is on sculpture installation. In Malleable And Changeable, she combines three previous installations and invites viewers into imagined biological systems where it can often be hard to tell if the forms are healthy or harmful growths. Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. In Refuge, she examines the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and explores the past and present of particular microcosms as metaphors for larger human and environmental conditions. July 26th-September 24th, Daily.
Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

CEEDS Lunch and Chat for students
September 7, 2021
Bring your own lunch and join staff from the Center for the Environment for an informal chat about your interests in sustainability and the environment. Are you passionate about the environment and sustainability and want to pursue your passion at Smith? Want to think through how you can connect what you're studying to issues of environmental justice? Need to talk through an article you just read or an idea you just learned about? Just want to hang out? You'll find good company at CEEDS.
CEEDS Office, Wright Hall, Lower Level
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Defining and Enacting Food Sovereignty in Native American Community Gardening, Culinary Work, and
September 9, 2021
Land Defense. Taken up by activists and academics alike, food sovereignty has become a rallying cry for both established tribal programs and grassroots projects across Indian country. However, what is meant by the term often varies considerably. This talk will place the term within specific notions of American Indian sovereignty, as well as the context of the broader food sovereignty literature, and explore in detail how Native American community farmers and gardeners, Native chefs, and people on the frontlines fighting pipelines and mines describe and define food sovereignty as both concept and method, and a tool for pursuing community goals of promoting health and reclaiming and maintaining tribal culture. With Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California - Berkeley. Register at link below.
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Virtual via zoom
12:00 pm

A Non-Traditional Journey, Exploring a Community-Based Landscape Architecture Model
September 9, 2021
with Daniel Winterbottom, Professor, University of Washington, Department of Landscape Architecture
UMASS Olver Design Building, Room 170
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm