UC Profs Receive $2 Million Grant for ‘Climate Action’ Art Initiative
“to inspire public engagement and align with California’s Climate Adaptation Strategies”
I can’t wait until Elon Musk and DOGE put their focus on higher education. There is so much to work with there.
The College Fix reports:
UC professors receive $2 million for ‘climate action’ art initiative
A handful of University of California professors will “leverage art and design as a powerful medium to engage the public in climate resilience and sustainability” with the help of a $2 million grant.
The project, led by professors Karolina Karlic and Jennifer Parker, “unites cultural and artistic programming rooted in climate justice across UC campuses to inspire public engagement and align with California’s Climate Adaptation Strategies,” according to a University of Santa Cruz news release.
Eleven other professors from seven different campuses will contribute to the project, which received money from the University of California system.
Professor Karlic (pictured, right) referred The College Fix to the initial news release when asked for comment. “This is all we can provide at this time as we embark on our work for change,” Professor Karlic said via email.
The Fix asked for examples of current projects the art department is working on relating to climate change and for examples of “workforce development in arts-driven climate solutions,” one of the promised goals. The Fix also asked for more information on funding and potential projects.
Karlic stated in the news release the group will be “engaging our local and global communities to take meaningful action through the arts” and “addressing climate change.”
She directs her university’s environmental art and social practice graduate program and is the “inaugural Art + Science Director of the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History,” according to her website.
Professor Jennifer Parker said the “grant allows us to deepen the intersection of art and climate action,” according to the news release. Parker (pictured, left), who also teaches in the art and social practice program, “explores the intersection of biology, technology, art, and ecology,” through her research, according to her faculty bio. “Through multi-sensory and transdisciplinary collaborations, she combines scientific inquiry with creative practices to uncover the sensorial worlds around us.”
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Cut funding to the UofC system. They obviously have money to burn. It shouldn’t be ours.
“Through multi-sensory and transdisciplinary collaborations, she combines scientific inquiry with creative practices to uncover the sensorial worlds around us.”
So in other words we’re getting paid to create bulls***t