Megan Powell

Megan and her students show off an art project

 

Megan Powell was already familiar with "islandness" when she joined the Island Institute as the Swan's Island Environmental Education and Art Fellow in 2000: as Megan had just finished service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia.  Working with students at the Swan's Island School, Megan:

• Taught projects that combined environmental education and the arts; including ocean mobiles, jungle murals, papier-mâché animals, and models of estuaries.
• Helped students plant and maintain a vegetable and herb garden.
• Planned and organized several student field trips, including a camping trip.
• Organized and supervised an art course for adults.

Pursuant to completing her fellowship, Megan went to obtain a graduate degree in environmental education.