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ART 171Art, Food, and Ecology

5 creditsGE PE-EUndergraduateStudent Option

How can eating become an artistic, ecological, and political practice? This studio course examines food as a sculptural, relational, and environmental medium. Through shared meals, cooking sessions, field visits, and studio-based translation of gastronomic experiences into artistic forms, students investigate how taste, agriculture, and planetary systems intersect. Emphasis is placed on agroecology, environmental justice, and the digestive system as a site of learning and perception.

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When it runs

Spring 2026Open Spring 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Studio
Tue Thu Sat 11:40am–2:05pm
Elena Baskin Arts A101J. Mascarenhas Menna BarretoClosed 25/25

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