2022-05-11-WIS22-1
11 May, 2022.
As we prepare for the Wisconsin Idea Seminar we make gratitude bundles like this one. The Wisconsin Idea Seminar is not possible without tireless and generous collaborators across the state who spend months planning, consulting, and offering expert guidance and ideas that strengthen and enrich our collective learning. The anatomy of our gratitude: a water cloth--or towel, as it is meant to function—each unique and hand-woven by a student in the School of Human Ecology’s Design Studies. Pictured here is a water cloth woven by Marley Vogel (BA’19). In preparation for their weaving project, students participated in a First Nations Cultural Landscape tour led by Omar Poler, the American Indian Curriculum Services Coordinator in the School of Education where they were invited to contemplate notions of responsibility, reciprocity, and respect and the interconnectedness that tether us to the land and water that surrounds our campus. The course was led by associate professor Marianne Fairbanks, a Wisconsin Idea Seminar alumna. Inside the water cloth is a jar of syrup harvested in Dane County by Dan Cornelius, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and founder of Yowela Farm in rural Stoughton. (Photo by Catherine Reiland / UW-Madison)
2022-05-11-WIS22-1
11 May, 2022.
As we prepare for the Wisconsin Idea Seminar we make gratitude bundles like this one. The Wisconsin Idea Seminar is not possible without tireless and generous collaborators across the state who spend months planning, consulting, and offering expert guidance and ideas that strengthen and enrich our collective learning. The anatomy of our gratitude: a water cloth--or towel, as it is meant to function—each unique and hand-woven by a student in the School of Human Ecology’s Design Studies. Pictured here is a water cloth woven by Marley Vogel (BA’19). In preparation for their weaving project, students participated in a First Nations Cultural Landscape tour led by Omar Poler, the American Indian Curriculum Services Coordinator in the School of Education where they were invited to contemplate notions of responsibility, reciprocity, and respect and the interconnectedness that tether us to the land and water that surrounds our campus. The course was led by associate professor Marianne Fairbanks, a Wisconsin Idea Seminar alumna. Inside the water cloth is a jar of syrup harvested in Dane County by Dan Cornelius, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and founder of Yowela Farm in rural Stoughton. (Photo by Catherine Reiland / UW-Madison)