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Cathy is a highly skilled educator who, during our introduction to ecoliteracy, offered participants the opportunity to make sense of our roles as creative practitioners. Haumea Ecoversity is invested in sustainability and ecological literacy and equips  learners with knowledge that will help them to gain an understanding of how their work might progress in reference to this mode of learning and creative practice. Using examples of other arts practitioners, musician/composer Carole Nelson and poet/writer Grace Wells, a meaningful discussion took place on how ecoliteracy can inform action.

Many thanks for your very informative introductory talk today with our artists on ‘why ecoliteracy is important for the cultural sector and for creative practice’– delivered so professionally, calmly and clearly. I really do appreciate you giving us your time and expertise.  

Do you feel a sense of overwhelm and powerlessness when it comes to what is happening in the world around us? Climate action, climate change, climate catastrophe? The desecration of our natural world around us has accelerated so much it can be difficult to wrap our heads around the enormity of these consequences. As a result, it can result in feeling a sense of overwhelm and/or apathy, saying to ourselves: “Sure what can I do, I am only one person”. But here is exactly where our power is but we do not have to travel this path alone. There are… Read more “Leona Cronin, MSc Humanistic Psychotherapy MSc Mental Health & Addiction Studies Nature Therapist & Forest School Leader”

I was first introduced to the Earth Charter during one of Cathy’s courses about Ecoliteracy, and immediately I wanted to learn more. Taking part in the Haumea Earth Charter course has helped me to understand the scope of the work of caring for our planet, and to begin to find a personal role I can take in the work. I met a wide range of people from all over the globe which helps me to understand the deep nature of the work, as well as sense the connections all around our globe.

I am happy to endorse Cathy Fitzgerald who I met when she was a visiting lecturer in 2020 on the professional development course, Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art, Valand Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Dec. 2020). Cathy presented a considerable breadth of knowledge, tailoring critical eco-learning to our professional group of public art practitioners. Her lecture was both engaging and provocative. As a result I have invited Cathy to be a visiting lecturer for my postgraduate students at Limerick School of Art and Design, where I am confident that she will direct students to the most important environmental… Read more “Dr Marilyn Lennon: programme co-leader MA SPACE at Limerick School of Art & Design”

If life gifts you the opportunity to work with Cathy Fitzgerald, consider yourself lucky. If you are a policy-maker, please listen to her wise counsel. If you are considering signing up for one of her courses, do so posthaste. If you are a patron of the arts, get out your checkbook and put a lot of zeroes after that first positive integer. Cathy is an incredible resource for art education institutes, art organizations and individual artists of all kinds. Go to Cathy to increase ecoliteracy (eco-wisdom, eco-cultural skill) and rejuvenate your own art practice or that of your students and/or… Read more “Dr. Nikos Patedakis, philosopher and mentor, United States review”

I invited Cathy to provide a guest lecture for 3rd year architecture students at the Cork Centre of Architectural Education, Univ. College Cork in Nov 2019. She provided a comprehensive, engaging presentation on the anthropocene and newer concepts such as the symbiocene and solastalgia. These frameworks introduced the students to thinking about man’s impact on the environment in a way that encouraged the students to include an awareness of these frameworks in their thinking on the ecosystem emergency. Best of all, she was able to present this complex material simply – through her extensive ecological art practice on new-to-Ireland continuous… Read more “Helena Fitzgerald, Co. Carlow, Ireland: architect, lecturer and researcher”