A message in the art  Senior art project examines the
environmental impact of coffee  April 02, 2013 | Kylee Perez
Last semester, Haley Gray asked her classmates to try a
different way of getting their morning coffee. Her instructions:
Walk into a field of tree stumps, try not to slip on loose
beans, grab your cup from the nearest stump and make your way
out of the broken forest.  OK, so maybe not literally.  Gray
instead invited her classmates to walk through her senior art
project, a two-dimensional piece that shows how coffee has
contributed to deforestation around the globe. Although it only
took her classmates a step or two to reach the coffee cups, the
interactive project made a powerful connection between
deforestation in coffee-growing regions and a daily caffeine
fix.  Gray first learned about the issue in her Earth and
environmental science class. The Furman senior then decided to
create her piece when visiting art professor Katya Cohen
instructed Gray and her classmates to develop a project that w