December 11, 2012

The SciArt Buzz is Back! December 2012

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We're bringing the SciArt Buzz back... there's just too much great SciArt buzzing around out there not to concatenate it into one readable digest. Expect this post regularly on Symbiartic, and don't forget to check these great science art events:

EXHIBITS: NORTHEAST REGION

The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot:

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Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

September 21, 2012 to January 27, 2013

The Bard Graduate Center Gallery

18 West 86th Street

New York, NY

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Portraits of a Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium

September 21-December 16, 2012

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Carnegie Mellon University

4909 Frew Street, Hunt Library, 5th Fl.

Pittsburgh, PA

This exhibition showcases 48 American botanical artists who are revitalizing the centuries-old tradition of the florilegium by creating a lasting archive of watercolors and drawings of the plants growing at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG).

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Focus on Nature XII

April 28 - December 31, 2012

New York State Museum

Albany, NY

download pdf of exhibit

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EXHIBITS: SOUTH

Work by Anne Runyon

February 1-24, 2013

The Nature Gallery, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

1 West Jones Street

Raleigh, NC

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EXHIBITS: MIDWEST

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EXHIBITS: SOUTHWEST

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EXHIBITS: WEST

Unnatural Selection; Work by Robert Bowen

month of December 2012

ZeroFriends Gallery

489A 25th Street

Oakland, CA

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