Two projects created by Professor Christine Baeumler receiving attention
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Christine Baeumler helped establish a youth program at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota. For a second year now, this week-long internship for high school students has provided an opportunity to explore art and ecology. Students worked with artists and teachers to learn more about the importance of pollinators in the environment and to create works of art based on their experiences learning about creating a sustainable urban landscape.
Statement from Baeumler's Imagine Fund supported project:
This project involved creating a sustainable outdoor campus at the Plains Art Museum which included the planting of edible and native plants that provide habitat for pollinators. As part of this project, the Plains also supported a one week paid internship for seventeen promising high school students in Fargo interested in the arts and sciences... This youth group participated in the "Buzz Lab," and transformed the urban site of the Plains Art Museum into a habitat for pollinators
More from the Plains Art Museum here.
Watch a local news clip on the program here.
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Baeumler was also featured on WDSE/WRPT, PBS Duluth in conjunction with her exhibition Bogs, A Love Story, which was on view last summer at the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, MN, and some of which was exhibited at UMN's Katherine E. Nash Gallery in last year's faculty exhibition.
More from the MacRostie Art Center here.
