Earl Center for

Learning & Innovation

A collaborative space for social dreaming and radical hope

Our Vision

The Earl Center for Learning and Innovation is a collaborative space for social dreaming and radical hope. A space where youth and adults, learners and teachers, researchers and designers join together in expansive inquiry to develop educational experiences animated by commitments to creativity, dignity, justice, and mutual flourishing.

Our Mission

As a participatory research community, we are committed to developing learning ecologies creatively responsive to the complexities of the world as it is and as it could be. Working at intersections of STEM, humanities, and the arts, we design ecologies where youth grow as engaged and critical authors of connected social futures.

Research

Inquiry that sparks change

Community

Collaboration in action

Students

Learning as a design practice

Happenings

Where ideas come alive

Artist-in-Residence

Jeffrey Nowlin, CFA ’10

Earl Center 2025 Artist-in-Residence, Jeffrey Nowlin, reimagines the textures of human experience through weaving, embroidery, and found materials—transforming moments of trauma and healing into evocative works of art.

The Artist Residency at the Earl Center hosts visiting artists who work to realize a radically hopeful future where art is conceived as an inextricable part of living, learning, and thriving. The artist residency supports the interdisciplinary, multimodal, creative, and transformative mission of the Earl Center.

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