This is an immersive class with two significant excursions to the Eastern Sierra. In the tradition of the ArtCenter course, Dandelions and Mushrooms, Sierra Summer delves into the Eastern Sierra's diverse landscape. In a time when reconnecting with nature is paramount, Sierra Summer will allow students to engage with colonial and indigenous histories, merging geography, flora and fauna of unique biomes, and geology with hands-on artistic practice-crafting natural dyes, pigments, paper, and sound recordings. Using all five senses to connect with the land as both muse and collaborator, students work towards a final piece to be shown in a group exhibition, fostering a holistic understanding of the Eastern Sierra's cultural, historical, and ecological facets. In doing so students will value the natural resources that are endangered in this era of human made climate-change. Students will be required to keep a working sketchbook or journal during the term in which they will record their research, findings, interests, and project ideas that will be turned in at the end of the term.