From Debris to Art
Original artwork completed by eco-artist Mariah Reading during MDI Biological Laboratory’s From Debris to Art project, is now on display at the Maine Center for Biomedical Innovation. While the campus remains closed to the public for COVID-19 safety precautions, the exhibition can be viewed in a virtual gallery on our project website. As soon as...
Continue ReadingFrom Debris to Art with Nature Links for Lifelong Learning
Nature Links for Lifelong Learning is a Blue Hill-based nonprofit offering continuing education opportunities for young adults with intellectual disabilities. For one of their classes, students took part in this year’s Art Meets Science project, “From Debris to Art,” with the help of their teacher Maddy Johnson. This post is slightly adapted from a piece...
Continue ReadingOn Creating Etch A Sketch® Art
In this post, artist and scientist Andrea R. Tilden, Ph.D., a visiting professor at the MDI Biological Laboratory, talks about the process involved in creating her Etch A Sketch® art, which is now on display in the Kinne Library in the lobby of the Morris Building.
Continue ReadingThe Art of Diagnosis: Recognizing Disease in Paintings
This post by MDI Biological Laboratory faculty member Hermann Haller, M.D., professor and director of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at Hannover Medical School in Hanover, Germany, uses the painting "Allegory of Love" by the Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino to discuss how paintings can be used to teach the art of diagnosis. Haller lectures frequently on the interface between art and medicine.
Continue ReadingArt Meets Science – A Writer’s Perspective
In anticipation of the MDI Biological Laboratory's 2017 Art Meets Science exhibition, communications intern Shlomit Auciello shares her perspectives on the value to scientists of collaborating with artists.
Continue ReadingForging Connections ‘At a Very Human Speed’: Reflections on Art and Science at the MDI Biological Laboratory
In this excerpt from a Tedx talk at Georgia Southern University entitled “Connecting Creatively” Reid Loveless, Georgia Southern student and MDI Biological Laboratory 2016 Summer Fellow reflects on the institution's 2016 Art Meets Science exhibit.
Continue ReadingMDI Biological Laboratory to Host Opening Reception for 2016 Art Meets Science Exhibit: Fifth Annual Exhibit Celebrates ‘Artists, Naturalists and the Vision for Acadia’
The MDI Biological Laboratory will launch the largest and most wide-ranging show in the five-year history of its annual Art Meets Science exhibit with an opening reception on Thursday, July 7. Encompassing the work of 45 artists and a timespan of more than 100 years, the quality of the work and the range of media...
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