FSU art professor promotes Earth Day 2023 through ‘Water for All’ initiative
As the world celebrates Earth Day this Saturday, a Florida State University Department of Art professor is using art to teach people about water conservation and sustainability.
“Water for All: An Art Exchange” is an interactive project hosted at pop-up events throughout Florida. The project informs visitors how single-use plastics like water bottles possibly contribute to global warming and more hurricanes.
“As an artist, I am determined to work for climate justice through my individual and communal actions,” said Holly Hanessian, project lead and art professor in the College of Fine Arts. “I believe that with empathy and compassion, combined with social responsibility, we can create change by taking responsibility for our environment through our actions.”
The project booth will be showcased at several events in Florida this Saturday, April 22, as part of Earth Day, including the Pompano Beach Green Market, the Earth Day Celebration at the Nature Conservancy in Naples and Tallahassee’s Word of South Festival.
“During the Earth Day event, our team of conservationists inform the participants about water sustainability and encourage them to make a clay cloud in exchange for a Sawyer portable water filter,” she said. “These filters can clean up to 100,000 gallons of water, and the clay clouds will become part of a large art piece at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center this fall.”
FSU art alumni Sarah Moschel-Miller and Melissa Gonzales Lopez are both team leaders for this project.
“The reaction from the different communities around Florida has been fantastic and incredibly varied,” Moschel-Miller said. “The art experience drew many visitors in, and after learning about the project, they expressed that they didn’t consider how much plastic gets wasted during hurricane season, or how they wished they had the filters for previous hurricane seasons.”
February 10, 2025
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Chuo Kikuu cha Jimbo la Florida hutoa mazingira ya kipekee ya kitaaluma yaliyojengwa juu ya maadili yetu ya kupendeza, urithi tofauti, na chuo cha kukaribisha. Jimbo la Florida lina yote, kutoa wasomi wa kitaifa, kitivo maarufu duniani, riadha ya ubingwa, na eneo kuu katika moyo wa mji mkuu wa serikali. Na sisi ni tovuti ya zamani zaidi inayoendelea ya elimu ya juu huko Florida!
Kuchanganya nguvu za jadi katika sanaa na wanadamu na uongozi unaotambuliwa katika sayansi, chuo kikuu chetu kina fursa ya kutoa vyuo vya 16 ambavyo hutoa zaidi ya 275 shahada ya kwanza, wahitimu, daktari, mipango ya shahada ya kitaaluma na mtaalamu, na ni muhimu kutambua kwamba kila mwaka FSU tuzo zaidi ya 2,000 wahitimu na digrii za kitaaluma. Baada ya kuhitimu, wanafunzi wetu wanajiunga na mtandao wa kipekee na wa kuunga mkono wa zaidi ya wanafunzi wa 300,000 duniani kote.
Programu za sanaa za Chuo Kikuu cha Florida State ni kati ya bora zaidi ulimwenguni. Pia tunatoa fursa nyingi za utafiti wa shahada ya kwanza na wahitimu, ikiwa ni pamoja na wale katika Maabara ya Taifa ya Magnetic Field - maabara pekee ya kitaifa katika jimbo.
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