SciArt Gallery
What is SciArt?
SciArt is the melding of art and science to encourage imaginative STEM communication strategies and creation of art that is both inspired and informed by science. Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci were two early scientists who embraced the value of scientific communication through art.
Project Goal
Although SciArt has a longstanding history, it remains underutilized in research communication. The interdisciplinary nature of SciArt facilitates discussion between artists and scientists that we replicated virtually through the SciArt Gallery Project. Students from a wide variety of majors, including Italian Language and Culture, Marine Biology, and Computer Science, came together to explore the intersections between art and their respective fields of interest. In doing so, they designed works of art that span the STEM departments at William & Mary.
Illustration by George Sowerby in A monograph on the barnacle sub-class Cirripedia, by Charles Darwin
Anatomical sketches of the human limbs made by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s
Live Student and Guest Speaker Component
Join our SciArt participants as they continue their interdisciplinary discussion with distinguished artists and scientists Dr. Adam Summers, Yvette Kaiser-Smith, and Dr. David Goodsell!
Date and Time: Monday, April 19th at 7pm
Zoom Registration Link: https://cwm.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUld-6gqz4tGdCvX75tNWObqL9kiLtb8q2D
Dr. Adam Summers
As a marine biomechanics professor at the University of Washington, Dr. Summers uses technologies such as CT scanning to visualize the morphologies of marine animals. He has experience working with animators as the former scientific advisor for Pixar's Finding Nemo and Finding Dory.
Yvette Kaiser-Smith
Yvette Kaiser-Smith is a full-time artist who uses mathematical values such as pi and e, as well as Pascal's triangle arrays, to inform her magnificent installations. She has displayed her art globally and is a prime example of an artist who incorporates STEM ideas into her artwork.
Dr. David Goodsell
Dr. Goodsell illustrates the microscopic world in wondrous detail. His watercolor paintings of molecular activity have served as inspiration for scientific illustrators worldwide and were recently featured on the cover of Nature. He is a professor of molecular and computational biology at Scripps.
Student Artwork
Click on individual pieces to explore the design process in greater detail
