Environmental Arts and Food Sovereignty in Costa Rica (ENVS 4810B)

Course Code: ENVS 4810B
Course Date: May 5, 2025 to May 14, 2025
Course Instructor: Martha Stiegman

Course Description

This is a community-engaged workshop offers students the opportunity to experience local struggles for food sovereignty in Costa Rica through environmental arts. Together, we will explore environmental arts principles and practices at the Las Nubes Eco Campus, visit surrounding small farmers, agro-cooperatives, Indigenous communities, farmers' markets and ecological features. Students will produce a variety of creative projects including short cellfilms, and collaborate with local environmental artist Raquel Bolaños to create mobile murals proclaiming small farmers’ rights.

Course Gallery

Summer 2022

The course ran from May 13-22, 2022. The instructor was Professor Dr. Felipe Montoya from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

ExpoCOBAS, Quizarrá, Costa Rica

Costa Rican artist, Raquel Bolaños, ExpoCOBAS, Quizarrá, Costa Rica

Lilian Meighen Wright Center, Las Nubes EcoCampus

Boruca Indigenous Territory, Costa Rica

Sierpe River, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Costa Rica

Summer 2019

The course ran from May 10-19, 2019. The instructor was Emeritus Professor, Dr. Deborah Barndt from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Santa Elena, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Summer 2018

The course ran from May 11-20, 2018. The instructor was Emeritus Professor, Dr. Deborah Barndt from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Santa Elena, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Universidad Nacional, San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Rivas, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa RIca

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Las Nubes EcoCampus, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Summer 2017

The course ran from May 10-21, 2017. The instructor was Emeritus Professor, Dr. Deborah Barndt from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Las Nubes EcoCampus, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Las Nubes EcoCampus, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Feria in San Isidro, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Longo Mai, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica

Quizarrá, Perez Zeledón, Costa Rica