Please reserve the evening of Wednesday, April 19, 2023, and join the School of Environment and Natural Resources’ (SENR) Environmental Professional’s Network Signature Earth Day celebration event at The Fawcett Center at Ohio State.

You are invited to a private reception (in-person only) with a select group of SENR and Stone Lab supporters, environmental professionals, enthusiasts, and students at 4:45 p.m. in the Fawcett Center Ballroom. This catered social hour features poster presentations from Ohio State senior capstone students advancing solutions to local natural resource challenges and Black on Earth, a multimodal gallery installation transporting viewers into green spaces that have been used as places of resistance by Black populations globally.

I understand some of you may not be able to travel to campus for this special event. If you are not able to join us, please know that we are very grateful for your generous support and I hope that we can find a time to connect in the future. Without you, we couldn’t continue to provide these vital experiential education opportunities for our talented students and future environmental leaders. Thank you.

Beginning at 6:00 p.m., Brotherhood(hood) Dance! will lead a transition from the Ballroom into the venue’s Conference Theatre for a performance integrating African diasporic dance with agricultural technology – encouraging and influencing Black growers’ relationship with land and building of community resilience through agricultural practices. Following the dance performance, Dr. Tiffany Bourgeois, assistant professor of Arts Management at Ohio State, will relate Black on Earth to her scholarship, practice of growing food, and use of creative inquiries into art, racial justice, agriculture, and the creation of green community spaces. Jera Oliver and Adrienne Williams, co-founders of the Growing and Growth Collective, will join Dr. Bourgeois on stage for a conversation about connecting the arts, agriculture, and community using culturally relevant and evidence-based programming.

We hope you’ll join us to celebrate on April 19.

Sincerely,

Dr. Eric Toman
Director, School of Environment and Natural Resources
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
The Ohio State University