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Associate Professor of Art Elizabeth Duffy is the recipient of two fellowships during her 2012/13 sabbatical. Duffy is currently Artist-in-Residence on Governor’s Island in New York through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program. During her Swing Space residency at Governors Island, Duffy will develop installations using sources from the grand homes on the island and the patterns from security envelopes of corporations across the bay. Find out more about Duffy’s work here at www.lmcc.net/residencies/swingspace/current_artists.

Visiting Professor Vikram Bhatt, Professor and Director of McGill University, Montreal’s Minimum Cost Housing Group, taught a graduate seminar this summer on Edible Landscapes/Agricultural Urbanism. Students explored principles of introducing productive agricultural space in and around urban areas, building on Bhatt and McGill’s multi-year efforts in China, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Brazil and Canada exploring productive capabilities of edible landscapes. The work proceeds from a premise that an interest in sustainable living and local growing, coupled with an evolution of aesthetic values beyond traditional ornamental landscape sensibilities, can lead to transformed landscape, economy and ecological balance.