Over the spring 2025 semester, students at Atlantic Cape Community College, Brookdale Community College, Community College of Philadelphia, and Ocean County Community College created art, videos, and writing assignments inspired by MACH research.
This art was displayed at Rutgers Day and the MACH Annual Meeting. It will continue to raise public awareness of MACH’s climate-focused research while being displayed at various Rutgers Coastal Campus locations.
Below are a few examples of MACH-inspired art. See this comprehensive PDF “binder” of all the art submissions MACH received from Community College Students.
Art created with non-recyclable materials inspired by MACH research on flooding and sea level rise:
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- “High Tide, High Costs”
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- “Steps to Catastrophe”
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- “Lucy in the Sky with Stilts”
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- “Hurricane Tiamat”
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- “Salt in the Wound: Standing Deadwood, Witness to Climate Change”
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- “Cries of the Eye”
Written assignment featuring MACH compound-flooding facts:
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- “The Importance of Compound Flooding”
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- “The Tides We Fear and the Walls We Build”
Video on climate change in Philadelphia inspired by MACH research:
A special thanks to:
The artists of Modern Fossils (David Horowitz and Judith Marchand) for sharing their art expertise and knowledge. Visit their virtual studio at: https://www.modernfossils.net/
The Community College faculty who worked with MACH to bring this program into their classroom/club:
- Atlantic Cape Community College – Professor Richard Perello
- Brookdale Community College – Professors Elana Maloney, Juliette Goulet, and Morgan Zielinski
- Community College of Philadelphia – Professors Deirdre Garrity-Benjamin and Elisa McCool
- Ocean County Community College – Professors Dr. Henry Jackson and Charlotte Langeveld
MACH researchers Diana Apoznanski, Manasa Bollempalli, William Coronel, Holly Josephs, Md Nurul Kadir, and Avain Laali, who worked hard to translate their complex research into two-minute video overviews to inspire the community college students. See an example from graduate student Md Nurul Kadir below: