2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11)

IGN 7-4 - Art and science collaborations: Teaching students to visualize

Tuesday, August 8, 2017
C123, Oregon Convention Center
Gerri Ondrizek, Reed College and Leila Pyle, Art, Reed, Portland, OR
Now more than any other time we must train our young people to see things in a multidisciplinary way. Visual form, as a vehicle for the public to understand the fragile environment we are now living in, is crucial for us make change in the future. As a professor of art and an artist who collaborates with biologist and geneticists, I teach my students to observe, and work in collaboration with the biological systems that make up the world. I will show projects by my students and I that have had an impact in educating our community about climate change.