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Tim Makepeace's drawings are inspired by his @NASAGoddard visits to see @NASAWebb up close during construction. “I'm thinking about the telescope’s purpose as a tool for imaging details we never knew existed and events that happened at the beginning of time.” #UnfoldTheUniverse
Artist Hildreth Meière designed the iconography of the NAS Great Hall. On April 2, in conjunction with our documentary screening, all four D.C. sites featuring Meière's commissions (pictured here) will offer special visiting hours. Details: https://t.co/1U0Q8YsKsj #5WomenArtists
🌊 Lion's Mane Jelly from the series SPINELESS: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates by Susan Middleton. Middleton is a San Francisco-based photographer and author known for her images of rare and endangered animals, plants, and sites.
#NaturePhotographyDay #5WomenArtists
In her paintings, prints, and video, artist Diane Burko uses material as metaphor to evoke movement, the passage of time, and the fragility of these endangered landscapes. We exhibited paintings from her coral reef series in 2018-2019. #WorldReefDay
.@CPNAS has a long history with artist Diane Burko. She has exhibited paintings inspired by Monet’s garden at Giverny, glaciers, and coral reefs at the National Academy of Sciences.
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Diane Burko, Corona Series,
April - May, 2020, Mixed Media, 42 x 164 inches.
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🔋On #NationalBatteryDay, imagine life without batteries. 🎨 Artist #RaoulDufy was commissioned to paint a mural about the history of electricity for the 1937 International Exposition, Paris. You’ll find this detail of battery inventor Alessandro Volta in our print of the mural.
Diane Burko speaks now at #AGU20’s Science & Society: Art and Science panel about her paintings inspired by the impact of #climatechange on glaciers and reefs. She experiments with different media. Her glacier paintings are in oil and her reef work is in acrylic. #ArtatScience
In 2020, inspired by the #COVID19 pandemic, Diane Burko embarked on a new body of work. Here she references global maps of the virus’ spread, graphs charting the curve of cases and abstract visualizations of the microscopic virus. More https://t.co/1eGo2I9GUG #ArtatScience #AGU20
Geologists might enjoy #AdrienSegal's mandala print (with details) about Mount Tambora’s 1815 eruption, the resulting “Year Without a Summer," and its impact on society—Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and the bicycle was invented. https://t.co/oq1yWnEl2A #ArtatScience #AGU20