Climate Change Event
Press Release: For Immediate Release
Submitted press release
Contact: Carol Knutson, Arts and Letters Instructor, cknutson@clatsopcc.edu
Re: Climate Change Event at CCC's Performing Art Center, 16th and Franklin, Astoria, Oregon: Saturday, October 24, 2009: free admission. Refreshments will be served.
24 October 2009 - 4:00pm - 10:00pm
Join 350 local artists, musicians, writers, scientists, students, residents, dancers, performers and eloquent listeners at Clatsop Community College's Performing Arts Center, 16th and Franklin, Astoria, Oregon on Saturday, October 24, 2009 for a community weigh-in on the global need for Climate Change: How Northwest Local Artists Make a Difference through Creative Action and how you can too... Artists include Cannon Beach, Seaside, Gearhart, Warrenton and Astoria Artists including painters Carol Riley, Steve Mcleod, Bill Lutz and Violinist Jeffrey Reynolds; Baylor Research Scientists, Prof. Max Shauck and Prof. Grazia Zanin University of Houston; and Clatsop Community College Instructors Royal Nebeker, Richard Rowland, Kristin Shauck, David Lee Myers, Pat Keefe, Nancy Cook, Carol Knutson and CCC Students, Seaside High School Teachers Michael Hawes, David Lehigh, and Broadway Middle School Art Teacher Emily Thomas and many, many more. Please contact cknutson@clatsopcc.edu and/or Bill Lutz at billylutz@hotmail.com to participate in the International Day of Climate Change Action and/ or to celebrate our local geography. Check out the 350.orgwebsite for the global, grassroots events planned for Saturday, October 24, 2009 and/or for intellectual context. As Michael Hawes’ inspiration for Seaside High School’s Pacifica Projects states: “Think Globally; Act Locally”
See you there!
Schedule of Events: "Is it possible to realize one's own dreams and live sustainably and self-reliantly while still protecting this beautiful geography? Will our community support such a one?”
4pm: Why 350? “Global Warming 101” Physics Professor Pat Keefe
5pm: Music: 350 violin variations by Jeffrey Reynolds; Self guided tour of the 350 works of Visual Art in the foyer and surrounding the interior walls of the Performing Art Center, including work by David Lehigh and his Seaside High School Art students and our young artists from Broadway Middle School (Emily Thomas, Art Teacher) and C. Knutson’s Writing Students at Clatsop Community College and CCC’s Art Community Weigh-In on Climate Change.
6pm: Slide Show: Pat Keefe: How much coal and petroleum do we humans burn in a day?;” How can I reduce my carbon footprint?” Followed by Essays, Poems and Slides by Mike Burgess, Nancy Cook:“Glacier Face: From Alaska Kennicotl Valley” and others.
7pm: “What is Climate Change?” Panelists include: Physics Professor Pat Keefe; Professor Grazia Zanin, Director of Research at Baylor University and Dr. Max Shauck, Research Professor at the University of Houston and…
8pm: Question and Answer Session and Music
9pm: “How do local artists make a difference
and how can I?” Panel Discussion with artists Royal Nebeker, Richard Rowland, Kristin Shauck, Bill Lutz,David Lee Myers on “Custodial Aesthetics” and friends.
Biographical Sketches of Our Guest Panelists so far :
Pat Keefe has been teaching physics and physical science at Clatsop Community College since 1991. Prior to this he taught at Clark College for one year and at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, OMSI, for 4 years. He completed a bachelor’s degree from Baker University and a master’s degree from Portland State University in Physics. Pat is the Oregon section representative for the American Association of Physics Teachers. Through this organization, Pat has been leading workshops on “Energy in the 21st Century” at national meetings for the past 7 years.
Dr. Max Shauck established the Baylor Institute of Air Science at Baylor University and chaired it until December 09. He is currently a Research Professor at the University of Houston (UofH). He received his flight training in the US Navy, carrier qualifying on the USS Lexington. His PhD is in Mathematics from Tulane University and he has been on the faculties of a number of US universities including Yale and Duke before joining Baylor University and UofH. Dr. Shauck’s life has been dedicated to aviation related activities. He ran his own flight school, flew unlimited aerobatic competition and airshows, and flew instrumented aircraft to monitor air pollution in North, Central and South America. He is the pioneer of the use of ethanol as an aviation fuel having done all of the initial research and development work, and having obtained the first FAA certifications for this fuel. He has completed five NAA certified record flights, including the first Transatlantic crossing on ethanol fuel for which he received the Harmon Trophy. Dr. Shauck has also completed the first ground and flight testing program on biodiesel as an alternative fuel for the currently used Jet A. He has been involved in air quality monitoring using instrumented aircraft since the early 70s’. Dr. Shauck has integrated all of his aviation experience in developing the curriculum of a unique program offered at Baylor University called the pilot-scientist program. He is now involved in setting up a similar program at UofH with a focus on aviation environmental sustainability. Dr. Shauck was the recipient of the 2001 “Excellence in Aviation Award”.
Grazia Zanin was the Director of Research at the Baylor Institute for Air Science from its inception until December 2009. She holds undergraduate degrees in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences and a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences. She has a Commercial, Instrument and Flight instructor pilot licenses. She has been working in the areas of air pollution monitoring with instrumented aircraft and the research and development of renewable aviation fuels. For the last 20 years she has developed proposals and managed programs related to further the research, development, certification and promotion of the use of renewable aviation fuels. She also managed all phases of air pollution monitoring programs which used instrumented aircraft. She was a pilot on the first transatlantic flight on ethanol fuel. She is currently leading the development and establishment of a Green Airport in the Dominican Republic, totally off-the-grid and with aircraft powered by biofuels, which would serve as a model of sustainable aviation to be replicated in the USA and other countries.
Termagant by Darren Orange
Dustbowl by Darren Orange
Darren Orange:
I am addressing the issue of natural beauty in the wake of human influence. The human struggle to control the environment has left nature scarred; however it perseveres and grows in his footsteps.
My work is an atmospheric environment created by a rich earth tones, and passionate balances. The work can allude to landscape, or figure discarded making reference to obsolescence. The work is generally heavily worked and textured as a result of process. The build up of layers and destruction of layers makes the connection to natural growth and decline. Thus, the work is a visual history of the process.
I am most directly inspired by the surroundings of where I have lived. The homesteads of Central Washington, the fishing villages on the lower Columbia River, and the desert of the Southwest. These sublime landscapes have provided me with reference to understand the past, and to be aware of my own mark on the environment. The work is site-specific, however the message, the image, the ruins standing like sentinels marking the horizon, transcend universally.
Tule Fall Chinook No.2 by David Lee Myers
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