An unconventional senior project has College of the Atlantic student Simone E Le Page counting grains of rice, creating clay pots just to break them, and walking campus backwards as they consider time, success and failure, and breaking the bonds of an alienating world.
Among the challenges of social separation, quarantines, and transitioning to a completely online learning format, College of the Atlantic students are doing their best to find creative solutions to engage from a distance and stay occupied with their free time.
COA’s mission is to inquire, to delve, to care, to create. These are not just words on paper. They flourish within the hearts and minds of every member of the COA community. We asked several members of the COA faculty what questions they asked. Here are their responses.
THE QUESTION: If people struggling under great odds and danger could persist, what’s my excuse?
THE RESPONSE: A graphic biography of Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian climate justice activist.
In 2016, COA art faculty member Sean Foley explored the qualities of wonder in art. Currently, and for the last four years, he’s also been exploring the humor, frustration, and sadness inherent within a more personal subject, the chronic depression that has been passed down through his paternal line.