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<\/a>“Faux Galaxy” by Casey Becker is part of \u201cThe Nexus: Exploring the Link Between Science and Art\u201d exhibit and is on display in Carlson Library.<\/p><\/div>The exhibits will be displayed in the UT Center for the Visual Arts Gallery and Clement Gallery, and in Carlson Library on Main Campus.<\/P><\/p>\n
The \u201cNexus\u201d exhibition in the Center for the Visual Arts Gallery through Sunday, Feb. 3, will be unlike any other held by the department, according to Barbara Miner, associate professor of art: \u201cIt is planned as an organic, evolving \u2018happening\u2019 \u2014 an experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students in the Department of Art, much like field scientists, are collecting, tagging, photographing, categorizing. They are amassing a body of knowledge on a topic of interest to them and, from that knowledge, searching for patterns and deriving meaning. Then they have to present what they discovered in a form of their choosing.<\/p>\n
Ben Pond, lecturer of art and gallery director, added, \u201cThrough this process, students will be learning that creativity has connections not only to the visual arts but to every discipline. It\u2019s designed to get them to more thoughtfully examine their worlds, and then to apply critical thinking skills as to how they will develop an installation that best presents what they learned or found.\u201d<\/p>\n
The display will morph over time, as new additions will be made weekly. Visitors are encouraged to return often to the ever-changing space as the event unfolds.<\/p>\n
To celebrate the students\u2019 efforts, an artists\u2019 reception will be held Friday, Feb. 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Center for the Visual Arts Gallery.<\/p>\n
The photographic work of artist and astronomer Dr. Tyler Nordgren \u2014 famous for his popular poster series for the National Park Service and award-winning photography of earthly and astronomical phenomenon \u2014 will be on display in the Center for the Visual Arts Clement Gallery from Friday, Feb. 15, through Friday, March 15.<\/p>\n
As a guest of the UT Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nordgren will present a lecture Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. in Ritter Planetarium. Titled \u201cCapturing Natural Night,\u201d Nordgren\u2019s talk will explore his photography of night skies in national parks and what is learned from “parks after dark.”<\/p>\n
The exhibit on the first floor of Carlson Library features three distinct bodies of student work: digitally created faux galaxies, 3D chimera art developed with a MakerBot, and a variety of prints exploring cellular form.<\/p>\n
The faux galaxies are photographic works of constructed \u201cgalaxies\u201d created by students in the department\u2019s digital media class taught by Sedar Burns, lecturer of art. The faux galaxies were generated from the universe of the students\u2019 imaginations. The students\u2019 chimera works are hybrid designs created with 3D imaging software and then constructed with a MakerBot, which re-produces the images in 3D form in plastic. <\/p>\n
The exhibit in Carlson Library will remain up throughout most of spring semester.<\/p>\n
The Department of Art also will hold a lecture in March presented by Rosamond Purcell, an internationally acclaimed artist and photographer, praised for her work exploring nature in all its forms. The Massachusetts-based “doyenne of decay” will show and discuss her widely exhibited work, which explores natural history and the processes of the natural world. For more information about her work, visit rosamondpurcell.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information on these free, public events, contact Miner at barbara.miner@utoledo.edu or 419.530.8315 or Pond at benjamiin.pond@utoledo.edu Check out \u201cThe Nexus: Exploring the Link Between Science and Art,\u201d a series of exhibits and lectures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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