ART MEETS SCIENCE
Maryland Sea Grant’s Art Meets Science pilot project collaborated with Cultivate to engage scientists and artists in networking and training events around art-science collaboration.
Maryland Sea Grant is hosting an exhibition with work by Cultivate artists.
Exhibition reception: December 16, 12 - 2 PM
RSVP for the exhibition reception here
ART MEETS SCIENCE
Cultivate and Maryland Sea Grant Collaboration
Art is a method for people to connect, reflect, and understand scientific concepts in diverse ways beyond traditional scientific outreach. Maryland Sea Grant initiated a pilot project to collaborate with Cultivate to develop resources (i.e., webinars, collaboration profiles, online resources) for the scientific community on best practices for artist collaboration as well as creating a networking and training event to incubate new project proposals for external funding.
The project goal is to forge connections between artists and scientists and best practices particularly in response to these questions: How to use art as a medium of outreach?; How to bring Sea Grant work to a larger audience?; How to partner and communicate with an artist or scientist and why?; What strategies make for successful collaborations?; How to create a local network/databank for collaborations?
The exhibition features individual and collaborative artwork from a selection of Cultivate artists including:
Maggie Gourlay, Katie Kehoe, Susan Main, Murat Cem Mengüç, MJ Neuberger, Elzibieta Sikorska, Lynn Silverman, and Sue Wrbican.
View the webinars here
RSVP for the exhibition reception here
More information: Maryland Sea Grant
Maryland Sea Grant is one of 34 Sea Grant programs supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in coastal and Great Lakes states that encourage the wise stewardship of our marine resources through research, education, outreach, and technology transfer.
DITCHIN’: Hay & High Ground
DITCHIN’: Hay & High Ground is a print and projection installation developed by artist and printmaker Heather McMordie and soil scientist and environmental historian Edward Landa. The project examines the long-term impacts (physical and cultural) of early 20th-century mosquito control ditches on the coastal wetlands of the Northeastern United States.
Without Title
Without Title suggests the potential of working without a singular designation and beyond boundaries of ownership. The exhibition offers a glimpse of varied practices that explore the qualities, perceptions, contexts, and systems that inform and expand notions of landscape.
Kingsley Trail in Little Bennett Regional Park
Cultivate Project Grant
Cultivate grant winner Inga Adda presents Walk This Way — a self-guided, participatory walk in the woods which encourages play, observation, and appreciation for the natural environment in Montgomery County. While walking along Kingsley Trail in Little Bennett Regional Park, participants will encounter various prompts, and hypothetical questions posted on signs throughout the trail asking them to examine the natural world.
Cultivate Project Grants support innovative, under-recognized artists or collaborative artist/interdisciplinary teams whose creative work resonates with the mission and vision of Cultivate. The grant supports the realization of an exhibition, project, research, workshop, or other critical events. The grant is made possible through small donations from artists and project supporters who believe in artists sustaining artists.
Grant Awardee, Inga Adda