Register now to join Open AIR at Flathead Lake Biological Station for a conference dedicated to the intersection of Art & Science!
Register at https://form.jotform.com/242686281903159
About:
In collaboration with Flathead Lake Biological Station, Open AIR presents our third 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 2024:
10:00 am Tom Bansak and Stoney Samsoe Welcome and Introduction to Biological Station/Open AIR
10:15 am Cameron Worden Playing with Light
11:00 am Arwen Baxter Composing In Place
11:45 Break and Lunch Provided by Open AIR
12:30 pm Monica Elser Flathead Lake Bio Station Activity
1:15 pm Eliza Weber Fiber workshop
2:00 Jiayi Chen In Process Works
2:50 pm Closing
What to bring:
Everything you need for the activities will be provided. You are welcome to bring a notebook or sketchbook to jot ideas and take notes as we go!
While most of the activities will be indoors, some activities might take place outdoors if the weather allows. Bring warm clothes and shoes suitable for walking on dirt and gravel pathways.
About the Artists and Presenters:
Arwen Baxter is a singer-songwriter from Montana who recently returned from living in the UK. She holds a BA in English and a BFA in Theatre from the University of Montana and completed a Masters in Literature at the University of York. She has brought her witty, poetic, western sound to two original LP’s, "Wildfire Season" and "Prodigal Daughter," weaving lyrical storytelling with a sense of place, space, and longing unique to the American West. A prolific writer and versatile musician, she has been published in The Sun, Frontier Magazine, and Scribendi, and has performed across the western US and northern UK.
Born in Chongqing, China, and based in Chicago, Jiayi Chen works in analog film, video, projection performance, and installation. Her works have been exhibited and screened internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Mana Contemporary, Miami; Anthology Film Archives, New York; ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, Germany; Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, Sweden; Antimatter, Victoria, Canada; CSIF, Calgary, Canada; Harkat, Mumbai, India; and TANK Shanghai, China.
Monica Elser is the Education Liaison at the Flathead Lake Biological Research Station. Monica spent many years engaged in limnological research and published her work in a wide range of scientific journals. She moved out of science research and into working to enhance science and sustainability science education within the K-12 community. She has since published her work with students and teachers in a variety of education journals. Monica recieved a BS in Biology from the University of Notre Dame, an MS in Ecology from the University of Tennessee, and a MEd in Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University.
Eliza Weber completed her MFA at Arizona State University. Originally from Great Falls, she received her BFA from The University of Montana. She has completed short residencies at Medalta in Alberta, Canada and The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. Eliza was also an Artist in Residence at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, Washington. She served on the boards of NCECA (National Council on Education of Ceramic Arts) as a Student Director at Large and the Ceramics Research Center. Presently, she serves as Secretary for the NCECA Green Task Force and as a board member for the Urban Art Project. Most recently she worked as Director of Education at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art and will be spending the next two years as a Long Term Resident at the Archie Bray Foundation.
Cameron Worden is a film artist, programmer, and projectionist based in Chicago. He is part of the Chicago Film Society, which exhibits, preserves, and provides educational initiatives around analog motion picture film. Starting in 2019, Worden has been working on a series of 35mm experimental nonfiction films titled Auto-Sketches, grouped around personal experience and the perceptual limits of representation.
Questions? Email program@openairmt.org