The Collective Dance Showcase will feature established, Baltimore-based artists and dance companies such as Full Circle Dance Company, The Collective, Effervescent Collective, Deep Vision Dance Company, and VTDance — all of which involve local Goucher dance alumnae/i. The show is open to the public, and admission at the door is $15.

The Goucher College Summer Arts Institute Collective Dance Showcase was started in 2010 to highlight the local dance scene, as well as Goucher graduates who chose to pursue dancing careers in Baltimore. This performance will give a sneak preview of new dance works for the upcoming season, and there will be a question-and-answer session with dancers after the show.

The showcase is a highlight of the Summer Arts Institute, an annual two-week program for students ages 12-18 that was created to expose young people to the professional art world through instruction, workshops, and performances. For more information about the Goucher Summer Arts Institute, including other scheduled performances, contact Program Director Linda Garofalo at 410-337-6493 or linda.garofalo@goucher.edu.

The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs in the Rosenberg Gallery on Goucher’s campus from Wednesday, June 12, to Sunday, September 1. The art can be viewed Monday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

An artist’s reception will be held in conjunction with Artscape’s satellite opening receptions, on Wednesday, July 17, 6-8 p.m. Call 410-337-6477 or visit goucher.edu/rosenberg for more information.

Mann’s paintings begin with a stain of color, the product of ink and water evaporating from the paper as it lies on the floor of the studio. From this shape, she creates a landscape using diverse, decorative forms—braids of hair, details from Beijing opera costuming, lattice work, and sequined patterns. Although founded in adornment, these elements are repeated until they appear organic. Mann thinks of her work as baroque abstract: a celebration of the abundance of connections and clashes that can be found in the disparate mess of matter in the world.

For more information on Mann, a Maryland Institute College of Art MFA and Fulbright Scholar, visit www.katherinemann.net/.

Espinosa specializes in new organizational models and social entrepreneurship, focusing on how to leverage business tools to make positive social and environmental impacts. Her previous experience includes serving as an administrator with the University of Colorado Denver’s Business School; as a lecturer in business, education, and natural resources; and as an administrator at an innovative model of residential youth health care.

Espinosa earned her bachelor of science in social sciences with an emphasis in social theory and social justice from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She went on to earn an MBA and a master of arts in education with a concentration in information learning technologies, adult learners, and instructional design from the University of Colorado Denver. She is completing her doctorate dissertation at Colorado State University, tentatively titled A People’s History of the National Parks, focusing on human dimensions of natural resources and the role of power, politics, and community engagement in shaping the national park landscape. 

Prior to his recent appointment, Walker was a faculty member in the MACS Program who taught courses on environmental sustainability and community organizing. As an academic trained in anthropology, history, and folklore, he has worked primarily in the public sector. For more than 20 years he has been an independent consultant engaged in the culture of work, the working class, and radicalism as an ethnographer, event organizer, and advocate. As a venture philanthropist, Walker has served for more than 20 years as a trustee to a family foundation that funds research, policy, and projects addressing environmental economics in areas of climate change, energy policy, sustainable fisheries, green taxes, ecosystem services, and ecotourism.

Walker first studied folklore as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and received his doctorate in folklore and ethnography with minors in anthropology and history at Indiana University, Bloomington.

The Welch Center for Graduate Studies provides adults with opportunities for a degree, career change, professional advancement, and enrichment. The center offers limited-residency programs for students pursuing a Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability, as well as a Master of Arts in Arts Administration, Master of Arts in Historic Preservation, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction, and Master of Arts in Digital Arts.

Goucher’s Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability Program—the only one of its kind in the country—brings together tools from anthropology, history, communications, business and management, linguistics, and activism, and it teaches students how to sustain cultural traditions in an era of increasing homogeneity and globalization.

In the most recent GHG inventory it has been reported that since 2009 there has been an overall 3.8 percent reduction in GHG, while in the same time frame the campus building footprint has increased by 13 percent.

Even with the additional challenge of compensating for an increase of spaces on campus to heat, cool, and power since the initial GHG assessment in 2009, there has been a 16 percent reduction in natural gas and oil consumption for heating per square foot and a 19 percent reduction in electricity consumption for cooling per square foot.

The climate action plan was required by the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which Goucher President Sanford J. Ungar signed in the summer of 2007. Reporting requirements dictate within three years and at least every other year thereafter, participants are committed to updating their GHG emissions inventories, and within four years and at least every other year thereafter, participants are committed to completing a report describing progress in implementing their climate action plans.

The plan commits Goucher to reducing its total GHG emissions by 20 percent below its 2009 emissions by 2020.

To achieve this, the college has instituted such initiatives as:

• ensuring all new buildings or major renovations to existing buildings are planned with the goal of achieving at least a Silver rating according to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System
• partnering with a sustainable waste management company
• purchasing green power to meet 100 percent of the college’s electricity use
• installing water and energy meters on all campus buildings to monitor usage
• implementing more energy-efficient lighting
• updating building controls for the heating and cooling systems.

The play lineup follows.

That Fatal First
By Craig Richie
Thursday, April 25
3-4:15 p.m., Van Meter 213

It is 1835, and a young Abraham Lincoln is about to face his inner demons in what would be his most dangerous struggle against manic depression. Through this lens, Abe struggles with his wife, Mary Todd; legal partner and confidant, John Stuart; and others to understand this sickness and reflect upon conceptions of mental disease. 

Invited Guests: Daniel Marcus, associate professor of communication and media studies, and Jean Baker, professor of history

All That’s Left
Concept and Libretto by Nancy Terry; music by Gil Kline
(A concert presentation of a new musical theatre work based on a play written by Nancy Terry, in collaboration with Goucher’s Department of Music)
Friday, April 26
8 p.m., Mildred Dunnock Theatre

What happens when all control is lost from a disaster? What happens within friendships, romantic relationships, and families? Eliza and Katrina have an unbreakable bond of friendship. Their letters to each other represent the unique communication that happens between two people who are so close that the line separating who is who blurs. The antagonists, Evan and Ethan, are the outsiders in this play. Their actions bring out different qualities in Eliza and Katrina. Eliza is able to have faith in others, while Katrina is not so quick to give the benefit of the doubt. The house fire spurs the plot along as we all learn from the characters the power and danger of human connection.

Invited Guest: Kendall Kennison, chair of the Department of Music

In Stitches: (Or, How My Boyfriend’s Breasts Threaten My Precious Queer Identity)
By Jeremy Grant
Tuesday, April 30
3-4:15 p.m., Van Meter, 213

What if your existence was a threat to society’s standards of decency? Join one man on his tragically comedic and atypical adventure through the harsh waters of gender identity, sexuality, and propriety. (Contains graphic material.)

 Invited Guest: Mel Lewis, assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies

Diligent and Reliable Officials
By Marley Witham
Thursday, May 2
3-4:15 p.m., Van Meter 213

Soviet Union, 1931. Under Stalin’s formidable shadow, Soviet author Maxim Gorky is forced to rearrange his view of art when he is asked to pardon another defecting author.

Invited Guest: John Corcoran, visiting assistant professor of history

Bound for Bed
By Adam Black
Tuesday, May 7
3-4:15 p.m., Van Meter 213 

Sex, violence, and an inevitable tiredness – Bound for Bed explores the effects of chronic fatigue syndrome on sexual encounters.

Invited Guest: Jim Sheehan, playwright and Goucher’s director of marketing

The guide was compiled using data that were solicited from hundreds of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The survey asked administrators more than 50 questions about their institution’s sustainability-related policies, practices, and programs. Each college was given a “Green Rating,” a numerical score from 60 to 99 that is based on several data points, including percentage of food expenditures on local and organic food, waste diversion rates, environmental literacy requirements, and sustainable transportation options. The colleges profiled in the guide received scores in the 83rd percentile or higher.

Goucher was cited for:

• Conducting public inventories of all greenhouse gas emissions on campus
• Implementing an institutional action plan to combat its carbon footprint and become climate neutral
• Spending 30 percent of its food budget on local/organic food
• Offering transportation alternatives, such as carpool systems and free bus services
• Purchasing 100 percent of the school’s energy from renewable resources
• Maintaining 100 percent of the grounds organically
• Having an environmental studies major
• Providing guidance on green jobs
• Making environmental sustainability a core educational requirement

The college was praised for its policy requiring that all new buildings and renovations of existing ones be certified at least at the Silver level under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green-Building Rating System. Goucher’s Athenaeum is the campus’s first LEED Gold-certified building.

The Goucher Environmental Sustainability Advisory Council’s (GESAC) efforts in working with Environment Healthy and Engineering (EH&E), Inc., to framework a Climate Action Plan, were also mentioned. EH&E is a Massachusetts-based environmental and engineering consulting firm.

To download Goucher’s profile in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition, click here.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Peg Birmingham, a professor of philosophy who teaches and conducts research in the areas of political thought, ethics, and feminist theory at DePaul University. She is particularly interested in modern and contemporary political thought, emphasizing the texts of Hobbes, Rousseau, Arendt, Heidegger, Kristeva, and Foucault.

The schedule of events is as follows:

9:30-10 a.m.: Breakfast

10-11:10 a.m.: Nietzsche I

     – Kathryn Dehler – Nietzsche and Distance: Moving Away from “Human Being”

     – Ben Hollander – Why the Death of God Is Not Enough

11:10-11:25 a.m.: Break

11:25 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.: Nietzsche II

     – Artyom Keller – Embracing the Chaos: Escaping Nihilism Through Nietzsche

     – Catherine Hawley – Decisions, Decisions: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Learning to Live in the Chaos

12:35-1:35 p.m.: Lunch

1:35-3:10 p.m.: Time, Functionalism, and Coming Out

     – Emily Polasik and Sophia Kurek – Dancing Through Relational Time

     – Matthew Duvalier McCauley – A Defense of the Proper Functionalist Theory of Warrant

- Zachary Kohn – Coming Out as Religious in College: A Journey

3:10-3:25 p.m.: Break

3:25-4:35 p.m.: Foucault I

     – Nicholas Manta – Idleness and the Normalization of Work

     – Jacob Wartenberg –A Global Panopticon: The Effect of Information Technology on Modern Society

4:35-4:50 p.m.: Break

4:50-6 p.m.: Foucault II

     – Charles Keiffer – Our Political Addict: Applying Foucault to Our Modern Concept of the Problem of Substance Abuse

     – Jeff Bessen – Survival of the Fittest: The Evolution of a Darwinian World

6-6:15 p.m.: Break

6:15-7:45 p.m.: Keynote

      - Peg Birmingham – Revolutionary Declarations: The Status of Human Rights

Researchers tracked consumption patterns, production levels, and trade information for the city of Baltimore in 2008, the most recent year for which information was available, and estimated the area needed to produce the food and materials that Baltimore citizens consume and to absorb the waste that they create. The results show that to sustain itself, the city needs a footprint of about 27,000 square miles—more than 300 times the actual area of the city.

“We were surprised to discover that the average person in Baltimore needs a 15 percent larger footprint than that of the average American,” said Germán Mora, director of the Environmental Studies Program at Goucher College and lead author of the study. “However, it is not as high as the footprints of other American cities,” he added.

The study, released today, finds that gasoline consumption provides the largest footprint in Baltimore, followed by electricity use in industrial and residential sectors. These results add important information to current city efforts to curb environmental impacts, highlighting the need to decrease private car use and to save energy in the city.

“If every person in the world were to consume at the same level as the average Baltimore resident, we would need four planet Earths,” said Mora. “The good news is that city leaders have embarked on a plan to make the city more sustainable, and these efforts, combined with new regulations at the state and federal level, could decrease the city’s footprint by 20 percent over the next decade.”

The group will give a presentation and lead a discussion centered on The True Cost of Coal, a complex mural that explains mountaintop coal removal in Appalachia, including its history, personal stories from citizens and activists, as well as solutions to end the controversial process.

The talk is free, and no tickets are required.

This events is sponsored by Goucher Energy Action Revolution (G.E.A.R.). For more information on the Beehive Design Collective, visit www.beehivecollective.org.

The concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday; all performances will take place in Kraushaar Auditorium and are open to the public. Tickets are $15 general admission and $5 for students, and senior citizens. Reservations can be made in advance at www.goucher.edu/tickets or by calling 410-337-6333. Tickets also will be available at the door.

Attendees will also have a chance to meet the artists at a pre-show welcome event on Friday at 6:45 p.m. in Goucher’s Rosenberg Gallery.

Moultrie, the Spring 2013 modern guest artist, is a performer, master teacher, and choreographer. The Juilliard School graduate has carved out an impressive career that spans from performing on Broadway to choreographing national television works, all while cross-pollinating genres, pushing boundaries, and embracing diversity.

Wingert, the Spring 2013 ballet guest artist, has received awards for her own choreography and has travelled throughout the United States and Europe setting Balanchine repertoire. As a member of the New York City Ballet, she danced more than 25 principal, soloist, and featured roles.

Considered one of Balanchine’s greatest masterpieces, Concerto Barocco was one of three ballets on the program at New York City Ballet’s first performance in 1948.

Students will also perform Ahearn’s contemporary ballet “Dyads,” which will explore how the relationship between two people involves their mutual ideas, thoughts, behavior, and ideals. Throckmorton’s work, “The Inside of a Shadow” will use organic movement to represent the unconscious mind.