1. Tea, terrior, ritual, and ethics + senior art show
By: Kotomi Yamamura

2. Original Learning Objectives
Learn about the ethical concerns of tea production, currently and historically, and learn how current tea distributors balance sourcing ethically with the pressures of capitalism.
Learn about the history of Chinese and Japanese tea ware and how they’re used in daily life, and ceremony
Explore how to teach through developing lessons about tea ceremonies and tea culture in Japan and China

3. Added + Senior Art Show
My time at Evergreen was split between learning about food and agriculture, the visual arts, and craft.
I will organize a senior art show to showcase my artwork which themes are connected to ecology, culture, commodification, and ritual.
New learning objective: Learn how to organize and curate an art show.

4. Tea workshops
Week 5> Discussion of ethics of tea production and distribution, pulled from the book The Darjeeling Distinction
Week 8> Gung Fu Ceremony style, Tea ware, and Ritual
Week 9> Terrior of tea, Focused on Japanese Terrior and The Japanese Tea Ceremony

5. Tea Ethics and Business
“Fair trade consumers believe that their purchases have the power to enact change in agricultural communities on the other side of the world”
“Fair trade is selling a moral economic fetish, a dream of equitable relations in empirically unequal productive conditions, and sales are booming”
“Envisioning something requires symbolic, linguistic, economic and political framings of actual conditions”
Is there ethical consumption under capitalism?

6. Tea Shop built on commodities
Within the book How to Open a Financially Successful Coffee Espresso and Tea Shop a large topic for profits were baked goods along side the beverages being sold.
“The circulation of slaves, sugar and tea created a drink that fueled the Industrial Revolution. The popularity of tea came thanks in part to the rise of sugar, which became the u niting ingredient in what Mintz calls the British “tea complex.”
This not only included sugary hot tea, but also cakes, pastries, and the accouterments of “tea time.”
The quotes above made me think of the connection between the history and current relationship between commodities, exploitation, and the “recipes” of drinks and/or food that feeds modern business models.

7. Studying Tea ware through reading and craft

8. Clay Tea Pots

9. Gaiwan, Pourer, Tea cups,

10. Bibliography
Besky, Sarah. The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair Trade Tea Plantations in India
Gascoyne, Francois Marchand, Jasmin Desharnais, and Hugo Americi. Tea History Terroirs Varieties. A Firefly Book, 2011.