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,” he said.“Learning about those kinds of things, where science intersects with social factors, was really key there. That’s probably been the main thing across the board for all my environmental classes at PLU: There are intersections between environmental issues and the people living in the surrounding area.” Evanishyn chose English as his other major. He hoped to sharpen his storytelling skills, having long dreamed of writing and producing for television. In 2019, he found an outlet for his

roots again and camp out on another Lord of the Rings set. He has too much going on here in the Pacific Northwest with family and work commitments. Perry knew that he always wanted a career in digital effects. He just had to figure out how to get there. Since he first saw Star Wars in 1977, at age eight, Perry has been fascinated with visual effects. That movie set his career path. He wanted to work in movies. And he wanted a part in creating those cool, blow-you-back-in-your-seat effects that first

. Of course, it rained the entire time. One of the tents leaked. But Reidel, a Spanish, visual arts and global studies major, loved it.“I liked the texture and feel of the rock,” Reidel said of another trip to the Peshastin Pinnacles in central Washington state. “And the view from the top was great. You feel so accomplished after you get to the top.”Reidel said in her time at PLU, she hasn’t come across a class where she loved..every..minute..of…it like this one. “This class teaches you that with

women in starting new businesses. “I want to help them with branding, business strategy, and storytelling, which are essential for a business to thrive,” she says. Applying Innovation to the Everyday Ambachew wonders how Mexico’s women’s co-ops might succeed in Ethiopia, which she says has a culture similar to Mexico’s regarding gender roles. “I’d love to see more co-ops in Ethiopia, where women can benefit from having a platform to sell goods and bring in income.” As a career peer advisor at PLU

, Saiyare Refaei ’14 interviewed street artists and came to see murals as public art that brings about consciousness of social injustices. After envisioning the potential for expressing cultural identity through storytelling on walls, Saiyare saw potential for a mural in Parkland. “It creates a better understanding and maybe bridges some gaps between PLU and Parkland,” Refaei said. So, she said, “Coming back to campus from Oaxaca, I noticed that Pflueger has a big wall that could use some life

visual experience.” Within the paintings are themes of transportation, signs, advertising, graffiti and nature amongst man-made structures and evidence of the human footprint. Many of the images remain desolate and long to be populated, yet rarely are; others, Stasinos lightly populates. “I choose my locations without much planning except to paint an urban location that strikes my eye as interesting and challenging. I choose my locations around Seattle with a similar attitude. I hope to capture a

co-commissioner. Although gay rights are not at the top of national political discussion at the moment, more and more people are paying attention to what is going on, he added. “There’s a lot of people paying attention right now,” Fisher said. “We just want to make people aware of it.” Club members decided a visual display made the greatest statement about the issues they care about. On display at the event was a wedding dress with a groom’s jacket over it. Any one who wished to show their

coordinator of the University Gallery & PLU Permanent Art Collection, overseer of the annual Studio Art, Design, & Media Artistic Achievement Awards, and manager of equipment, supplies, and repairs for all art and design studio area courses. Mathews’ service extends beyond PLU, where her role as co-coordinator of Visual Culture for the German Studies Association highlights her commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration. She leads with inclusivity and democratic practice. Her extraordinary service

Prevention Coordinator Tolu Taiwo. “It’s going to be fun to co-teach together and engage students to ask really big questions about race, gender and sexuality through something we consume and enjoy,” Smith said. Students studied Beyoncé based around her 2016 visual album “Lemonade.” The first half of the course was based on her work pre-Lemonade, and then the rest of the course was solely focused on the album. The course used Patricia Hill Collins’ text Black Feminist Thought, with additional readings

wear second-hand clothes identified by stickers from GREAN; and a showing and discussion of “An Inconvenient Truth.” “The film is a really good way for visual people to get an idea of what’s really going to happen,” explained Karly Siroky, a Climate Change Ambassador. “You see the spikes in the graph, and you can’t deny it’s happening.” Later in the week, bikes are the focus with the Central Pierce Fire and Rescue selling fitted helmets for $6 and Jim Couch from Spoke and Sprocket answering bike