Since 2016, the academic narrative emerging from the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida, has increasingly relied on a public scholarship model to bridge the gap between institutional practice and community knowledge. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy as an interdisciplinary scholar, these a…[Read more]

June Julian’s paintings of old trees provided a strong basis for the methodology of aesthetic inquiry In her doctoral research at New York University. In 1994, from that phenomenological grounding, she developed a pioneering ecology art education project on the World Wide Web, and then invited the world to join in. With a genesis in her studio art…[Read more]

June Julian’s paintings of old trees provided a strong basis for the methodology of aesthetic inquiry In her doctoral research at New York University. In 1994, from that phenomenological grounding, she developed a pioneering ecology art education project on the World Wide Web, and then invited the world to join in. With a genesis in her studio art…[Read more]

In this video presentation, I describe three projects that show how Art can help us to imagine cures for endangered coastal archaeology, personal and ecological grief, urban air pollution, and spark us to take action. If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art…[Read more]

If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art to visualize remedies for broken hearts and broken landscapes. I propose that my following three projects show how Art can help us to imagine cures for endangered coastal archaeology, personal and ecological grief,…[Read more]

As trees everywhere are threatened by human caused environmental impacts, we
lament their demise, and make our heated, pointed remarks about conservation and
change. During a self-directed Summer sabbatical to the
island of Samos Greece, where trees of any kind are struggling and rare, I painted a
series of trees with sharply pointed branches,…[Read more]

Taking up the challenge of navigating the complex world of digital humanities, Making Sense of Digital Humanities offers readers an exploration of the many ways scholars have employed the diverse toolkit of digital humanities to create a better understanding of the synergies and disruptions created by technological change. Rooted in a concern for…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The I Lichen New York paintings by June Julian combine nature, architecture and popular culture. They
reflect the author’s personal experience of place as effected by ecological pressures. Since lichens
only grow in unpolluted places, these works critique the degradation of air quality due
to urban over development.

A personal account of the author’s experience with skin cancer and its relationship to climate change.
It includes 6 original acrylic paintings in her “Here Not There” series.
The paintings show solitary pale nude figures reclining in an expanse of scorching desert with a backdrop of fiery skies, distant mesas and mountains. The colors are hot,…[Read more]

Since 2016, the academic narrative emerging from the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida, has increasingly relied on a public scholarship model to bridge the gap between institutional practice and community knowledge. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy as an interdisciplinary scholar, these a…[Read more]

In this essay, we will explore information-seeking behavior as exhibited by Doja Cat on her 2021 record, Need to Know, using Kuhlthau’s (1993) six-stage Information Search Process.

Fun quiz with a presentation and worksheet for students to answer the questions while the teacher projects the presentation. It upends preconceptions of most Japanese university students and provides a lesson on phenomena such as international marriage, language shift, and the levels of bilingualism formulated by the author.