Audience
Please join us Wednesday April 2, 4:30-5:00 on the First Floor of the Hilda C. Landers Library for the ART 390, The Artist Naturalist, “Like Gessner” project book opening. All the project books will be on view – come a celebrate this wonderful project.
Assignment objectives: To explore natural history study and documentation in a similar mode to Conrad (Konrad) Gessner in his 16th century encyclopedic works, History of Animals, History of Plants, and the Universal Bibliography. His method encompassed collecting all references to a given plant or animal including descriptions and illustrations from previous publications, and by crossing over boundaries into literary references, folk tales, popular culture, etc. Each student chooses an animal for their project and learns about natural history illustration by selecting and then copying artworks across time and culture, and by curating a set of textual excerpts related to their animal. This course cross lists with ENST.
Aoife Carroll-gavula - Shark
Griffin Carson - Snake
Mia Dyer - Orca
Haley Englestad - Owl
Ja’kai Giddins - Bat
Nicole Gunderson - Swan
Skylar Kaplan - Tiger
Clay Kiesel - Cat
Maya Kirchner - Crow
Kendall McHugh - Oyster
Hannah McQueen - Deer
Vincentt Stevenson - Hyena
Charlotte Thomas - Ape
Veronica Velez - Pigeon
Truman Warner – Rat