Human ecology is a multipoint, integrated way of knowing both our selves and our surroundings, but what most amazes me is its creative element, how COA students have transformed our governing concept into a powerful instrument of expression. In painting and sculpture, ceramics, filmmaking, photography, poetry and fiction, musical performance, and theatrical production, their unstoppable artistic output has given human ecology a visible presence and a voice. It stems from our core belief that human beings are inseparable from nature. The same forces that drive natural adaptation and change also drive the human search for expressive form. For so many COA students, the creative arts become a way of understanding, honoring, and celebrating their heartfelt interconnectedness with the people around them and the world we all inhabit. -Bill Carpenter, Faculty Member
Anjali Appadurai delivering a TEDxDirigo presentation about the meaning of radicalism, the importance of youth activism and her involvement in attending the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Denmark.
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