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Libraries, Artists and Scientists Embrace the Interdisciplinary Studies of Water
Steve Carpenter, professor of zoology and director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Collaborations between artists and scientists continue to proliferate in research and educational institutions. Scientists and humanists increasingly find meaningful value in combined approaches to investigating the legacies and futures of environmental change. Libraries and librarians are natural partners in this work, harnessing a variety of information resources to promote interdisciplinary inquiry and knowledge production.
On October 21st, the Wisconsin Water Library and the Kohler Art Library embrace and celebrate these intersections with a co-curated exhibit and public talk. FLUX: Water in Art & Science brings two UW-Madison professors — Steve Carpenter, Director of the Center for Limnology, and Sarah FitzSimons of the Art Department — in conversation about how and why their respective disciplinary research practices actively embrace the other’s.
The talk is situated around a co-curated collection of artists’ books currently on exhibit at the Kohler Art Library. Title/Tidal: Book Arts and Water showcases how artists have used the material form of the book to illuminate complex issues surrounding the topic of water. The multi-faceted works convey the wide range of ways that book artists, at times collaborating with writers, have interpreted water, rendering it as elemental to creative life as it is to biological and ecological life.
PACIFIC QUILT, Part 1: Bering Strait to the Tropic of Cancer. 2013 Eventually, the Quilt will depict the entire Pacific Ocean (currently in progress). Quilt By Sarah FitzSimons 2013.
A reception with the exhibit will follow the talk and all events are open to the public. Sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries.
Book artists and writers in the exhibit: Margaret Wise Brown (author), Julie Chen, Emilie Clark, Stephanie Copoulos-Selle, Diane Fine, Colin Finlay, Hermine Ford, Kathleen Fraser (poet), Dan Giancola (poet), Karen Hackenberg, Lyn Hejinian (poet), Susan Johanknecht, Babette Katz, Michael Kuch, Mario Laplante, Clifton Meador, Sarah McDermott, Margaret Preston, Barbara Tetenbaum, Walter Tisdale, and Claire Van Vliet.
Exhibit co-curators: Sigrid Peterson (SLIS graduate student); Anne Moser (Head, Wisconsin Water Library), and Lyn Korenic (Director, Kohler Art Library).
Flux is Friday, October 21, 2016, 3:30pm-6:00pm, Room L150 Elvehjem Building, UW-Madison.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]