Portraits

Kelsi Snyder swims underwater in One Mile at Bidwell Park on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 in Chico, Calif.

What can you do in a summer job? Camp counselors lead an end of session ceremony at Timberlake camp in Plymouth, VT.
Date:  7/18/2019

“One of the struggles of art that tries to engage in issues like climate is that it gets cloistered away in a gallery setting … where not that many people go,” says artist Cy Keener. “I liked the idea of the street being the audience, as opposed to whoever wandered into [a] gallery. It’s a 3-D billboard for melting Arctic ice.”

Trained as both an artist and architect, Keener has long been interested in how technology, art and the environment intersect. He’s used sensors to track the movement of stones along a riverbed during flooding and buoys to monitor ocean currents. 

Using sensors in the Arctic, a professor hoped to visually depict the ice melting for an audience a continent away—until climate change itself disrupted his plan.

In April 2019, artist Cy Keener deployed two, hand-crafted buoys off the coast of Utqiagvik, Alaska, to measure the temperature, color, and thickness of Arctic sea ice. For over two months, the buoys collected information about the temperature changes in the sea ice with depth, and through time, as well as the color of sunlight transmitted through the ice into the ocean. He’s used sensors to track the movement of stones along a riverbed during flooding and buoys to monitor ocean currents. 

“One of the struggles of art that tries to engage in issues like climate is that it gets cloistered away in a gallery setting … where not that many people go,” says Keener. “I liked the idea of the street being the audience, as opposed to whoever wandered into [a] gallery. It’s a 3-D billboard for melting Arctic ice.” 

A year after her husband writer John McNamara was killed in a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom, Andrea Chamblee navigates grief by finishing his final book and taking a public role in gun-reform activism

Every year, as tradition, the freshman participate in a walk across campus- often led by a dean. The students are welcomed at the end of the walk by the band, cheerleaders, our mascot, and most of the faculty and staff currently on campus. 

Dr. Cristina Villalobos, Professor of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences. 

A university staff member brought her pet dogs to staff portrait day. 

Erick Perales, dance performance graduate, was hired by Ballet Nepantla in New York City, New York. 

Professor Shelly Clevenger is shining a light on domestic violence through the “Survivors: Stories of Domestic Violence” performance and "Purple Light Project."