"To develop a complete mind:  Study the science of art; study the art of science.  Learn how to see. 
Realize that everything connects to everything else." Leonardo da Vinci

2017 was SPARK, a year long celebration of the relationship between the arts and science. 
One of the goals was to establish partnerships and collaborations, and one of the outcomes was the formation
of the ART-SCI group, which continues the spirit of SPARK.  This group of faculty members has collaborated
to sponsor events and offer curricula designed to foster discussions about the convergence between the arts and science. 
Since then, a group of undergraduate and graduate students formed SEMINARIUM, a club with a similar mission.   

Upcoming Events

 

ART AND SCIENCE Seminar Series
Lessons Learned During the Process
Tuesdays 4-5 (unless indicated)
Co-sponsored by OSU ART-SCI, Dept of Biological and Ecological Engineering and the Corvallis Arts Center
For credit:  BEE 507 (CRN 60778) Access https://bit.ly/2PGpCWe  Password:  756993

 

April 6, John Selker, BEE; Esthetic satisfaction:  The connection between beautiful scientific measurements and the
glorious substance of trees; VIDEO
April 13, Chet Udell, BEE; Instrumentation, environments, and musicianship; VIDEO
April 20, Leah Wilson, Visual Artist and Steve Wondzell, USFS; Collaborating with time; VIDEO
April 27, Randall Milstein, Physics; The science of my art; VIDEO
May 4, David Maddison, Integrative Biology; Patterns in the beetle tree of life, and the interweaving of science and art; VIDEO
May 11, Jerri Bartholomew, Microbiology; Weapons of microdestruction:  Using art and music to understand parasite ecology; VIDEO
Q&A; Performance;  Ballad of Ceratonova shasta;  Data sonification
May 18, David Buckley Borden, Harvard Forest Associate, Visiting Professor U of O; Hybrid vigor:  Art x Design x Ecology; VIDEO
May 25, Ali Trueworthy, Pacific Marine Energy Center; Community-built Creative; VIDEO
June 1, Tom Carrico, Physics; Astrophotography - Physics or Celestial Art?  VIDEO
June 3, Jay Stratton Noller, Crop and Soil Science, My own causality dilemma: Which comes first science or art? VIDEO


 

 A YEAR OF ACTIVISM | ART MAKING AN IMPACT

WHAT WILL NATURE DO?

A collaborative arts+sci exhibiton and education project
to communicate climate change science through the arts.

Fall 2021 Exhibition at The Arts Center, Corvallis

Speaker Series:  February to March 2021--To provide background for the public and inspiration for artists,
a series of inspiring talks will be held starting February 18th, 2021.

REGISTER for this series of webinars focusing on the positive side of climate change

 

 
  

Past Events

In Time of Change:  Microbial Worlds--Mary Beth Leigh, University of Alaska, September to October 2020

Ken Van Rees-Director, Centre for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation; Lecture:  Monday, November 4, 5:30 pm; Memorial Union 213, THE COLLISION OF SCIENCE AND ART:  PAINT, SOIL, AND CHARCOAL.  University of Saskatchewan, Fall 2019; Black Carbon, Artist Reception:  Tuesday, November 5, 4-7 pm.  Strand Gallery, 440 Strand Hall. 

Through the Lens: Tools for Extending Our Vision and Knowledge through History, Dr. Melissa Santala, OSU Professor of Materials Science.
October 10, 2019; 4:00 pm

Rivers, Salmon and Disease in a Time of Change/Source2:  Jerri Bartholomew, August 2019

Weapons of Micro-destruction:  Jerri Bartholomew, Andy Myers and Dana Reason, May 2019

Willamette River Sculpture:  Dedicated Spring 2019;

Artist Residents in Labs

David Buckley Borden: Designer-in-Residence, Harvard Forest - April 2019

Michael Schulteis  Venn Pirouettes - October 2018

Languages of Nature:  Little Gallery, May-June 2018

Communicating our Vision of Nature:  Scientific Illustration Through the Ages:   David Maddison, April 2018

In a Drop of Water:  Hatfield, March-April 2018

Evolution of a Superbug:  An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Antibiotic Resistance:  Michael Baym, Betts Cole and Dana Reason, November 2017

Microbiomes:  To See the Unseen:  The Corvallis Art Center, May 2017

Microbiomes:  Connecting the Communities:  Nash Hall, April 2017

Microbiomes:  Imagining the Unseen: Little Gallery, March 2017

Arts-Science Convergences at OSU:  April 2016

 

 

 
   

Courses

All HC Classes
HC 407 The Art (and Science) of Storytelling - Summer
HC 407 Art of Science / Science of Art - Fall
HC 407 Have Rocket Will Travel - Fall
HC 407 Da Vinci 101 - Fall
HC 407 Imagining the Universe - Fall and Winter
HC 407 Data Driven Enchanted Objects - Winter
HC 407 Found Objects:  Material Culture, Meaning, and Memory - Winter
HC 407 Life - The Biosphere Through Space and Time - Winter
HC 407 Biomimicry:  Wisdom and Inspiration from Nature to Solve Human Challenges - Spring
HC 407 Plastics for Poets - Spring
HC 407 Electric Nature, Digital Storytelling - Spring