Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Contact: Thomas Hardy, tcarlhardy@gmail.com or stop by the Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum will bridge the gap between science and art this year by featuring its first ever art gallery.
Beginning in August, the gallery will decorate four floors of the museum’s main stairwell. The project, spearheaded by the museum’s Student Advisory Board, will feature students’ and local artists’ representations of a different topic in science every six months.
Thomas Hardy, Salina senior and president of the board, said the exhibit’s first topic, biodiversity, would engage the museum’s 50,000 annual visitors in a new way.
One of the exhibit’s goals, Hardy said, would be to spark the creative aspects of museum visitors’ brains.
“It’s fine and dandy to have a natural history museum and an art museum, but how cool would it be to mix the two?” he said.
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Art submission info
Theme: biodiversity
Items to submit: image, idea, or previous work
Due date: May 15
Selection notification: June 1
That idea resonated with Tristan Smith, visitor service coordinator for the museum and Biodiversity Research Center.
Smith developed the idea for the exhibit out of a desire to encourage a dialogue among visitors that goes beyond science.
“We want to bring in a different crowd,” Smith said. “It’s more of an outreach to get people who aren’t normally interested in science, but in art.”
Katie Oberthaler, Wichita sophomore and vice president of the board, said art for the gallery would be selected based on its visual appeal and relevance to the exhibit’s theme.
She said submissions for the gallery’s first six-month rotation could depict almost anything related to biodiversity, including global warming and water use.
Hardy said the art could also be in any form, including paintings, photography and videos, as long as each piece fits requirements specified in the Call for Artists sheet available at the Museum.
“We want stuff that’s really challenging and gets at the core of modern art — breaking conventions and playing with ideas,” he said.
The museum’s main stairwell is currently being repainted and fitted with new lights to accommodate the gallery, which will occupy more space than many of the museum’s existing exhibits, Hardy said.
The Student Advisory Board also plans to provide a $50 honorarium for the artists whose work is selected for the gallery. Art submissions are due on May 15 and selections will be announced on June 1.
— Edited by Patrick De Oliveira
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