Get to Know a Grad!

 Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of a semi-regular Get to Know a Grad feature! Enjoy!

Name: Kasey Christian

Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC

Undergraduate University/Degree: University of North Carolina at Asheville/Health and Wellness Promotion

What brought you to IslandWood? A plane. Sorry, not funny.  I was a Nanny in The Netherlands and learned about the program from a Grad and it sounded so amazing and then I applied.  A great motivation to come back to the U.S.

What is your favorite thing about IslandWood so far? The forest and all the creatures living in it.

What is your favorite thing about Bainbridge Island/Seattle/The Puget Sound so far?  Natural beauty, sense of community, and coziness.

Who would you want to play you in the movie version of your life?  Claire Danes

Quick! Someone gave you 100 bagazillion dollars! What do you do with it? Ah! It's so heavy!!! Take some! Wait, no...you tell me what you're gonna do with it first. Aw, I gotta get to the bank, then devise a plan...but I might stop for coffee and dessert on the way now that I can afford it...

Who do you most admire and why?  My parents. They're lovely. They love life.  They also helped make me.

What do you think you might do after IslandWood?  More studies. Work. Play. Both at once?

Shoutout time!  Any awesome organizations that you think deserve to be mentioned? UNC-Asheville Outdoors. Outward Bound NC.

A Look Back at Arts Integration

Laura captivates the crowd with admirable storytelling skills!

Only one week is left in the quarter and time is flying by! Arts Integration was a great experience. With Hillary as our instructor, we were guided through innovative, creative and motivational lessons. We took a trip to Olympic Sculpture Park a couple of weeks ago and expressed ourselves through haikus.

The park and a sculpture overlooking the Puget Sound

So many shapes!

Enjoying a beautiful day in Seattle from many perspectives

What a nice tree!

Friday marked the end of the road for Arts Integration. Our final projects were shared in the Great Hall - and everyone was invited. I am in awe of how creative and unique our grad class is! Stories were performed, poetry was shared, lessons were sampled, photos and videos were shown, drawings and other works were displayed, and music was heard. All of it was incredible.

Cassie shows Ian how to beat the chlorophyll out of a leaf! Zowie!

First portion of the gallery walk. Danny displays her incredible 10-day journey with poetry and photos from Bainbridge Island. Kasey talks about her original lesson creation on tessellation, and down at the end, Amanda shares her 10-day journey with food through watercolors, while Blake shares 10-days of haikus capturing his relationship with water!

Chris shares his victory with poetry

Second half of the gallery walk: Amanda shares her original lesson on leaf prints, Adam shares sketches from a 10-day spiritual journey, Bonnie shares her 10-day relationship with birds, Clarissa with song, and Cornelia with haikus of her dog-walking adventures!

Laura shows off a sword fern print!

JP stands beside her 10-day relationship with picking up trash - so cool!

Ashley talks to Hillary about her grad community-inspired work

Just for an added bonus, please enjoy the next photo of grads letting out some energy during a workshop with Jessica last month! Surprise!

Amazing.

Get to Know a Grad!

Editor's Note: This is the third installment of the semi-regular Get to Know a Grad feature! Enjoy!

Name: Chuck Janovick

Hometown: Twin Ports of Lake Superior

Undergraduate University/Degree:  I have a degree in Outdoor Education/recreation from the University of Minnesota Duluth.

What brought you to IslandWood?  I'm at IW because I love to teach especially about the outdoors.

What is your favorite thing about IslandWood so far?  Getting to work with such a diverse student population.

What is your favorite thing about Bainbridge Island/Seattle/The Puget Sound so far?  Being by the water and the mountains.

Who would you want to play you in the movie version of your life? I would like to see Dumbledore play my since I did such a good job being him for Halloween.

Quick! Someone gave you 100 bagazillion dollars! What do you do with it?  Buy the most magnificent land ever maybe an Island and let all my friends and family live there with me then give the rest to charity.

Who do you most admire and why?  My wife because she is smart, strong willed and always puts family first.

What do you think you might do after IslandWood?  I just hope that I'll be teaching in some capacity.

Final thoughts?  Always follow your heart!