Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91̽��faculty, staff, and students have access to .��

Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Gaia Has a Fever

April 22, 2:00 PM���� Livestream

Join the Department of History, College of the Environment�����Ի� 91̽��Earth Day in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.��Dr. Jennifer Thomson will give a talk untangling the history of oil corporations, climate justice, and environmental governance. Beginning with physicist James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, she’ll discuss the involvement of oil corporations in climate research, and explore a truly liberatory environmental politics.

Free, please register for access ����

COURSE: Introduction to Basic Plant Morphology – Learning the Parts of the Plant

April 22 and April 23, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Online Classroom

Celebrate Earth Day by expanding your plant vocabulary! David Giblin, Collections Manager of the 91̽��Herbarium, teaches this two-part class. Learning the basic vegetative and reproductive parts of vascular plants that we know from our gardens, kitchens, and walks in nature, provides an opportunity to improve plant identification skills.

This class is offered online. Viewing instructions will be sent before the start of the class.

Cost is $20 ����Register & More Info

After the Blast The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens: Webinar with Dr. Eric Wagner

April 22, 10:00 – 11:30 AM | Zoom Webinar

In anticipation of the 40th Anniversary of the major Mount St. Helens eruption, 91̽��Libraries and 91̽��Press are proud to host a zoom webinar featuring Eric Wagner, Ph.D., author of After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens.

Since it’s eruption in 1980, Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists and in After the Blast, Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals forest scientists saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.

Free, please register for access ����Register & More Info

Ask Your Farmer!

April 23, 11:00 AM |

The 91̽��Farm is still producing food, but under restricted operations and without the usual dedicated crew of student volunteers. Farm manager Perry Acworth will host this Instagram Live session, showing the work that’s happening on the 91̽��Farm and answering questions about the Farm and our food systems. If anyone has questions on how they can grow food for themselves, this is your moment!

Livestream takes place on and will begin at 11 AM.

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Virtual Poetry Café for Poetry Month

Month of April | Online engagement

Since launching in April 1996, National Poetry Month has given people an annual occasion to celebrate the importance of poets and poetry in our culture. This April feels like an especially great time to explore the power of poetry and how it can be used to craft connection and celebrate the things that mean most to us!

Join Whole U this April for a virtual  91̽��Poetry Café to share the poems we love, write some of our own, and connect with our wider community over the written word.��To help get your creativity flowing, The Whole U devised UW-themed poetry prompts to try on your own or with colleagues and friends.

Pick the prompt that resonates most with you then share your favorite poems or original compositions with us by sending them to wholeu@uw.edu or by tagging them #UWPoetryMonth on social media.

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Crossing North Podcast

Ongoing | Online

Crossing North is a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.

In the most recent episode, released April 15, Colin Gioia Connors interviews author Nora Ikstena and assistant professor Liina-Ly Roos. Learn why Ikstena’s novel Soviet Milk about Soviet-occupied Latvia was so popular that libraries had to create a special loan policy for the book.

Missing the Henry? View the online collection!

Ongoing ����

From photography to textiles, the Henry Art Gallery’s permanent collection contains more than 27,00 objects from around the world.�� The collection originated with the gift of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings donated to the 91̽�� by Horace C. Henry in 1926. It has grown over the years through acquisitions from exhibitions and through the generosity of art collectors, artists, and donors.

Luckily for those looking to reconnect with art while working remote, the Henry has an extensive the online collection database. Learn more and .

Looking for more ways to engage? The Henry is also sharing content across their social media platforms daily!

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#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night

Every Friday, 8:00 PM ����Virtual Event

Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 8 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back—this time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

BYOB, snacks, and slippers! Check out for a preview!

Free, please register for access����

Staying home? Here’s what to watch

Ongoing | Your favorite streaming service

Looking for ways to stay entertained while staying at home? If you’ve already binged all the shows in your Netflix queue, fear not. Faculty in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies have gathered television and film recommendations to fit every mood.

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for more digital engagement opportunities.

The 91̽��’s has received two large and prestigious donations — one a collection of centuries-old European prints from Seattle art collector Albert Feldmann, the other scores of images by well-known photographers from the recently-disbanded Washington Art Consortium.

Sylvia Wolf, Henry Art Gallery director, expressed deep appreciation for both donations and the vision and generosity of the donors.

“This is a truly transformative gift,” Wolf said of the 204 European prints from the 15^th to 18^th centuries by such artists as , , , and donated by Feldmann, a lifelong collector and retired Boeing senior engineer.

Feldmann was a mechanical engineer of some renown who built the first laser and was instrumental in the development of the atomic clock. Across the years he also amassed an exquisite collection of European master prints and an impressive library of books on the subject. He chose the Henry for this gift because he wished the collection to remain local and accessible to students.

“For over 50 years, Mr. Feldmann collected works of the highest quality and finest condition,” said Wolf, whose official title is the John S. Behnke Director of the Henry Art Gallery. She added that this extraordinary collection “will serve as a resource and inspiration for artists, scholars, students and enthusiasts of the art of printmaking for generations to come.”

Also coming to the museum is the “Collection of American Photographs 1970-1980” from the . The collection includes 185 photographs by 33 artists, including images by such American masters as , , and .

The consortium was formed in 1976 by Seattle philanthropist and collector to bring the work of distinguished modern artists to Washington state and to spur collaboration among the state’s museums. The consortium announced in February that it would and disperse its collection to member museums, to provide greater public access to the work.

Highlights of the collection include photographer/filmmaker 50-print “Tulsa Portfolio,” from his 1971 book documenting teenage drug addicts, early color photographs by , , and , rare vintage dye transfer prints by and photographic narratives by .

Wolf, a former president of the board of the coalition, expressed gratitude to collector Wright for “having the vision 40 years ago to bring works by important American artists to our state” and for her leadership and support of the arts.

“This extraordinary collection increases our ability to share stellar works of photographic art with our university community and audiences throughout the state of Washington.”

Other members of the Washington Art Consortium were the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, the Museum of Art at Washington State University in Pullman, and the Western Gallery at Western Washington University and Whatcom Museum, both in Bellingham.

The Henry’s collection of over 3,000 photographic works dates from the birth of the medium to the current decade, and is the broadest and deepest in the region.��The addition of a portion of the consortium’s collection significantly expands the Henry’s holdings from the 1970s and ’80s, an important period in the history of photography.

The Henry, now celebrating its 90^th birthday, has collected more than 26,000 objects over the decades, including photographs, new media, sculpture, video, paintings, and works on paper, as well as costumes, textiles, and ceramics.

Works from the Henry may be viewed in the museum’s , which makes items from the permanent collection available by appointment to students, researchers and the public.

On November 4, the Henry will open “,” which will focus on contemporary works that have entered the permanent collection in the past 20 years.

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For more information about the Henry Art Gallery, its work and collections, call 206-543-2280 or email info@henryart.org.