The CEDAR Gallery
About Our Gallery
The CEDAR Gallery is a faculty and student-led environmental gallery that centers ecologies, diasporas, and ancestral roots. The gallery’s intertwined goals are threefold: provide students with the space, tools, and experiences to combat climate anxiety; showcase and celebrate environmental works and teaching at UMD, Maryland, and around the globe; reinforce students’ educational experience at UMD by introducing them to interdisciplinary and environmental-related art, activism, and scholarship.
According to a recent study, nearly one third of people ages 16-25 say that their feelings about climate negatively affect their daily lives. At the same time, students in this age range are requesting more classes on climate change, environmental justice, and environmental racism. Here at the University of Maryland, College Park, where sustainability is the most popular minor on campus, the CEDAR Gallery aims to create spaces for students to reckon with any resulting anxieties that come with learning about the state of our planet and its environmental inequalities.
This CEDAR Gallery website shares monthly updates on upcoming events and exhibitions. It also houses a digital archive of the gallery’s artwork and is connected to the student-run social media account. The website is also designed to serve as a central source for all things environmentalUMD, from the Wekesa Center to SustainabilityUMD and the Center for Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH). The website will be a place to learn about classes to take, events to attend, and efforts to support.
The CEDAR Gallery and this website are brought to you by generous support from the Indigenous Futures Lab in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of History, and Arts for All. The gallery is also partnered with two student groups: History Undergraduate Association and 17 for Peace and Justice. The gallery’s principal curator and faculty lead is Jayson Maurice Porter, Assistant Professor of History.
The CEDAR Gallery is supported by grant funding from The Douglass Center Faculty Fellowship Award, Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities; The University Sustainability Fund Grant, Office of Sustainability; Environmental Pedagogy Workshop Funding, Arts for All.
Resources to Navigate Climate and Environmental Anxieties
Spaces and places for you to explore and engage.
Environmental Justice UMD
Dr. Sacoby Wilson and the Center for Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH)
Dr. Jennifer Roberts and the Wekesa Earth Center
Dr. Marccus Hendricks and the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience and Justice (SIRJ) Lab
Dr. Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner and the Indigenous Futures Lab
Dr. Marisa Parham and the African American Digital and Experimental Lab
College Park Scholars: Environment, Technology, and Economy
Homegrown: An Introduction to the Environmental Justice Movement
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland
--- Oyster Recovery Partnership at the Horn Point Laboratory
Environmental Justice DMV
Our Partners and Affiliates
Black Ecologies Lab, Rutgers University
Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, DC
Just Harvest, Tappahannock, Virginia