I’m so honored to be part of this show! Here are the details:
In Honor of the 2015 United Nations Year of Soils
An interdisciplinary exhibition featuring natural history specimens, artist books and poems selected from an international call for entries.
Exhibition Dates:
August 6, 2015 to December 4, 2015
Collins Library, the University of Puget Sound
Opening Reception:
September 10, 2015, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Collins Library, the University of Puget Sound
On-Line Catalog: www.pugetsound.edu/dirt
Events Calendar
- Exhibition Opening – September 10, 2015 from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Reception will be held from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Curator Lucia Harrison will then give a lecture entitled “Intersections: How Artists and Scientists Can Collaborate to Create Environmental Awareness” from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. - Art/Science Salon – September 17, 2015 from 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Tour the exhibit and attend a talk by Lucia Harrison (Visual Arts) and Abir Biswas (Geology) from The Evergreen State College. - Educator and Student Night – September 24, 2015 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Learn about “Staying Healthy with Polluted Soils” with Walt Burdsall from the Tacoma Smelter Plume Project and “Combining Art, Literature and Science in the Classroom” with Lucia Harrison. - Earth Pigments: Hands-On Activity & Family Reading Hour – October 3, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m
Make acrylic, egg tempera, and watercolor with soil pigments with Curator Lucia Harrison and join members of Puget Sound Greek Life for stories about soil. - Dirt? Poets Reflect on Soils and the Environment – October 15, 2015 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
A Poetry Reading with Regional Poets featured in the Dirt? Exhibition. A celebration in conjunction with Tacoma Arts Month.
All events are open to the public and will take place in Collins Library, University of Puget Sound.
Here are 2 views of my piece, Secret Sides of Soil:
It’s an origami flexicube.
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