Inquiry: A Day of Art & Science
When: Friday, October 13, 10 am - 3 pm
Place: Flathead Lake Biological Station
32125 Bio Station Ln, Polson, MT 59860
Registration is required:
Register at https://form.jotform.com/232556721133148
About:
In collaboration with Flathead Lake Biological Station, Open AIR presents our second annual conference celebrating art and science at Flathead Lake's beautiful Yellow Bay campus. This day-long event will feature artists, scientists, and educators leading various sessions, including presentations, hands-on activities, demonstrations, and art-making that engage audiences in conversations on place, art, and science.
This event is part of the Fall Open AIR Artist-in-Residence program in partnership with the University of Montana Flathead Lake Biological Station.
Cost: The conference is free, suitable for all ages and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
Inquiry Schedule 2023
10:00 am Tom Bansak and Stoney Samsoe Welcome and Introduction to Biological Station/Open AIR
10:30 am Monica Elser Microscope Activity - What you can’t see in the water!
11:00 am Nicole Banowetz Petri Dish Sculpture
11:45 Break and Lunch (provided by Open AIR)
12:30 pm Jasmine Gutbrod Lake Water Marble Printing
1:15 pm Sarah Jones Exploring the Herbarium Sheet
2:10 Charlie Dov Schön Soft Science: Data-Based Weaving & Textile Visualizations of Flathead Lake
2:50 pm Closing
About the Artists:
Nicole Banowetz is a Denver(USA) based sculptor who makes sewn inflatable sculptures and delicate assembled forms. Nicole’s work is inspired by the natural world. She addresses human qualities and relationships using the imagery she finds in the animal, plant, mineral, and bacterial worlds. Nicole has lived and worked internationally, creating artwork in India, Italy, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Poland, and England, and showing work in large international exhibitions such as The Amsterdam Light Festival, Bad Art Hot Air in London, Open Art in Sweden, and PASSAGES INSOLITES in Quebec City. She has taken part in environmental residencies and exhibitions in California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Finland.
Jasmine Gutbrod is an artist, designer, and educator researching the intersections of ecology and social justice. At Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), she received her bachelor’s degree in Furniture Design and Nature-Culture Sustainability Studies and her master’s in Art and Design Education. Through physical object-making, she studies ecological processes and how natural material properties influence behavior, often conceptualizing the borders between inside and outside spaces. She sees art and design as valuable tools for community building and empowerment and innovative education as a pathway for those tools.
Sarah Jones (b. S.L.C. Utah) is a multi-media artist. She was awarded a BFA in painting and printmaking at the University of Utah and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Currently, in Seatle, Jones’ work has been shown throughout the United States. She has been awarded various residencies, including Sante Fe Art Institute, Ucross Foundation, Haystack, Bloedel Creative Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and the Oak Spring Foundation. Jones was a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Artist Trust Gap Grant, and Oak Springs Garden Foundation Artist Grant. Jones’ work examines loss, grief and what is hard to see. Currently her work addresses climate change and consequent extinction.
Charlie Dov Schön is an artist and environmental scientist whose work is deeply place-based, engaging with textiles, transparencies, and the natural world. She is a dryer lint collector, a spatial data enthusiast, a found object artist, and a scientific communicator. Her work has been shown at Hamilton College’s Wellin Museum, Boston City Hall, The Essex Art Center, and The Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.
Questions? Email program@openairmt.org