12 March
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The Algae of the Evergreen Beach features herbarium specimens of seaweeds collected along the shoreline and pressed by the students in the two-quarter program, The Nature and Culture of Natural History.The program focused in fall 2017 and winter 2018 on the historically complex and often problematic binary of nature and culture so common in colonial botany. The program was taught by botanist Frederica Bowcutt and historian of science Tamara Caulkins. As a part of the study of local history, the learning community studied and collected algae growing on the shoreline of Evergreen’s 1000 acres with phycologist Tom Mumford on February 16, 2018. Dr. Mumford teaches phycology at theRead More →

06 November
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Located on the 2nd floor of the Daniel J. Evans Library, this display features the story of Japanese-American activist Gordon Hirabayashi and his resistance to the Japanese internment camps during World War II. Gordon Hirabayashi was born in Seattle, Washington and was a student at the University of Washington. The installation is a traveling exhibition from Seattle University.Read More →

22 May
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Now Showing in the Evergreen Library The Lib+ is honored to present Carla Stehr’s Quilts and Molecule Photographs. Carla Stehr is a fiber artist influenced by a scientific career as a Marine Biologist. As a scientist, she studied cells and tissues of marine organisms and photographed the complexity and beauty of aquatic life with a scanning electron microscope. Several of Carla’s microscopic images have found their way into her fiber art. Carla Stehr was one of the first students to enroll at The Evergreen State College. The observation skills she learned through Evergreen’s science programs were indispensable for her work as a scientist and anRead More →

10 April
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Melinda Hurst Frye-UnderneathApril 15 – May 26, 2017 GALERIE FOTOLAND THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE Location: 1st floor library lobby, outside Photoland “There are other worlds around us. Too often, we pass through them unknowing, seeing but blind, hearing but deaf, touching but not feeling, contained by the limits of our senses, the banality of our imaginations, our […]Read More →