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Christina Burress: Tiny Plastic EcoArt Tiny Climate Challenge
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In Tiny Climate Challenge Episode 10 our Guest Challenger, poet and artist Christina Burress talks about how she uses found objects (tiny plastic trash that she picks up off our beaches) to create artwork while raising awareness of the threats of plastic ocean pollution. She also shares a reading of her powerful poem, “In the Crease”.
Guest Challenger Information Christina Burress is passionate about teaching her students to notice the world around them for inspiration and healing. Currently, she is Chair of the English Department at the Grauer School in Encinitas, California where she teaches 10th and 12th-grade Literature and Creative Writing. Since 2010, she has taught the course, Language of Poetry to K-12 educators getting their Master’s in Arts in the Curriculum from the School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2009, she has taught poetry classes for UCSD Extension. You can find some of her poetry published in the San Diego Poetry Annual.
Christina Burress on Instagram: @christinamisenburress
Links mentioned Llyn Roberts Wild Wisdom Retreat James Nestor - Deep Eric Booth - The Everyday Work of Art The Plastic Pick-Up The Grauer School For the Wild podcast I Love A Clean San Diego Alexandra Burress Nick Burress Contact Mayela Manasjan TinyClimate.com
In Tiny Climate Challenge Episode 10 our Guest Challenger, poet and artist Christina Burress talks about how she uses found objects (tiny plastic trash that she picks up off our beaches) to create artwork while raising awareness of the threats of plastic ocean pollution. She also shares a reading of her powerful poem, “In the Crease”.
Guest Challenger Information Christina Burress is passionate about teaching her students to notice the world around them for inspiration and healing. Currently, she is Chair of the English Department at the Grauer School in Encinitas, California where she teaches 10th and 12th-grade Literature and Creative Writing. Since 2010, she has taught the course, Language of Poetry to K-12 educators getting their Master’s in Arts in the Curriculum from the School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2009, she has taught poetry classes for UCSD Extension. You can find some of her poetry published in the San Diego Poetry Annual.
Christina Burress on Instagram: @christinamisenburress
Links mentioned Llyn Roberts Wild Wisdom Retreat James Nestor - Deep Eric Booth - The Everyday Work of Art The Plastic Pick-Up The Grauer School For the Wild podcast I Love A Clean San Diego Alexandra Burress Nick Burress Contact Mayela Manasjan TinyClimate.com
40 min