I was recently interviewed for the Wyoming EPSCoR program’s blog.
In addition to a number of questions specific to the nature of sketching workshops I teach, Jess White from EPSCoR asked a thought-provoking question about how drawing contributes to my writing. It was a question I’d never consciously considered before, and I was delighted to be compelled to do so.
Little of that aspect of the interview made it into the final article, which is how interviews often go – there’s only room for so much, and no matter how interesting a tangent may be, it may not sync well with the dominant theme of the article.
While working on my project on ecological concepts in picture books, I’ve come across some fascinating research about using picture books to teach science.
Here are a couple points that are particularly interesting:
Two weeks ago, I gave a seminar to the University of Wyoming Zoology & Physiology Department.
Entitled Drawn to Science: Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Synergies between Drawing, Creativity, and Science, my talk roved through history, technologies that have influenced art and science, and looked at research and examples of how art and science
can do much more than make data look pretty.
Click here to view the talk! It’s about an hour long, including the Q&A following my presentation.
