OUTREACH | UWC-USA Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Conference
Marcia was invited to present a program about Ransom Ranch at the 2016 United World College USA Conference on Climate Change and Energy Initiatives. More details about the conference here.
“The Castle” at United World College, USA
Students learning the principles of the arch, vault, and dome, and taking a ‘virtual tour’ of Ransom Ranch.
Illustrating how being an artist can help in planning and design.
Illustrating Marcia’s start in farming and gardening in the mid-1970s, here sorting dates in the field, 1975
Our leased date grove, 1975
Marcia, her goats and garden by an orange orchard, Coachella Valley, CA, 1976
Marcia Gibbons | sustainable arts 
Remember the lush date groves of Indio? The cathedral-like vaulted ceiling of palm fronds shadowing the road so welcome after the glare of the desert sun. Now just a few scraggly looking date palms at the edges of sweeping freeways…
cheyennepaints said this on February 14, 2016 at 5:06 am |
Hi Marcia, Wow, such a great opportunity for teaching what you love doing most! You fit right in. Love your black and white photos from the 70s in Cochella Valley.
Deborah
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
—Lao Tzu Sent from my iPad
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Deborah Girard said this on February 14, 2016 at 1:01 am |