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The Kate Farm hosts a variety of environmental humanities events throughout the year, including the Kate Farm Film Series and a range of other special events. Check back often for updated programming.
The environmental arts and humanities elevate environmental discourse through creative expression and community engagement, reinforcing the importance of artivism for understanding nad cultivating environmental resilience.
Just as important is the idea and practice of art as engaged scholarship, advancing disciplinary knowledge through creative dialogue.
Making the Invisible Visible
Making the Invisible Visible
Supported by the Lecture and Fine Arts Committee, throughout Spring 2025 the Environmental Studies Department invited students across disciplines to engage with the notion that artivism is essential for climate resilience. We collaborated with Jan Burger from Paperhand Puppet Intervention.
On February 7, we heard Jan give a talk on his journey with giant puppets and environmental artivism
(See the recording here, passcode #Nbw44*7).
We learned how to think with this art form and its potential as a catalyst for environmental and social change.
From March 6-9, Jan and his partner Emma came to campus to guide us through “builds” where we practiced the art of puppet-making.
The puppets we made during these builds culminated in performances at the Kate Chandler Campus Community Farm during Earth Day (Tuesday, April 22, 2025).
Earth Day 2025
Earth Day 2025
On Earth Day, we paraded our puppets throughout campus during a procession between 11:30am-1pm. In the afternoon, we invited the campus and surrounding community to join us for a performance at the Kate Farm from 4:30-6pm. Afterwards, people stayed for food from The Real Food Studio and a film screening of Just Eat It, a movie about reducing food waste. Beyond Earth Day, we hope the puppets that we make can be reusable in a variety of local settings, from open houses to K-12 classrooms.
In the script writing process, Environmental Studies students combined quotes from their reading and research (ON WHITE SLIDES) with original creative prose and poems (ON GREEN SLIDES).
Real Food for Resilience
Real Food for Resilience
Growing recognition of food insecurity among college students has catalyzed a range of research efforts and interventions aimed at improving their educational experiences, nutrition, and well being. Despite the availability of federal, state, and local support mechanisms designed to assist food-insecure individuals, research consistently demonstrates that college students tend to underutilize these resources, keeping food insecurity on college campuses invisible.
Supported by a Maryland Higher Education Hunger Free Campus grant, for Earth Day 2025, we partnered with culinary expert and creative foodsmith Lisa Kelley of The Real Food Studio to curate a mouthwatering and nutritious menu of sweet, savory, affordable, and easy bites college students could make on their own. See menus and nutritional information below.
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