Science & Art exhibit now open at Arts & Science Center with hands-on activities
- Ongoing: until Friday, December 31, 2010
- Monday: 10:00am
- Tuesday: 10:00am
- Wednesday: 10:00am
- Thursday: 10:00am
- Friday: 10:00am
- Saturday: 1:00pm
- Where: Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: Not available
Science & Art exhibit now open at Arts & Science Center with hands-on activities for all
Science & Art, the newest hands-on exhibit now open at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, looks at all the ways that science and art overlap.
As part of the exhibit, participants can create their own make-and-take origami projects, create puzzle art, listen to computer music and play in a computer-generated “shower” that teaches about the nanoscience of water droplets.
A special Family Fun Day open house is planned for 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, to showcase the exhibit through performances, science and art activities, face painting and free hot dogs.
Science & Art is organized into five “mini” exhibits featuring:
Origami sculpture work by Robert Lang, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading origami masters with more than 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed. Visitors may fold their own work of art to take home or leave for display in the gallery’s “visitor art” section. Lang uses his origami skills to “fold” telescopes intended for outer space to fit them inside rockets.
Beautiful Worm which combines biology and photography, offering a unique window into the world of scientific research as interpreted through art. This part of the exhibit showcases research of the C. elegans worm by Ahna Skop, Ph.D., assistant professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin.
1-Bit Music inventor Tristan Perich. The 1-Bit is part art, part physics and part mathematics. 1-Bit compositions are delivered to listeners via an on/off switch, micro-chip, battery, earphone jack and volume control all squeezed into a plastic CD case.
Wearable computers by Leah Buechley, assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A display of Buechley’s work allows visitors to select and see the different LED display patterns designed and programmed into the fabric.
Three Drops by electronic artist and computer scientist Scott Snibbe who introduces visitors to the concept of the nanoscale. This multimedia experience requires participants to move in front of a large screen to interact with projections of water at the macro-, micro- and then nanoscale and allows them to experience how the physical properties of water change.
Science & Art is made possible through the Arts & Science Center’s partnership in Arkansas Discovery Network, a consortium of seven museums in the state of Arkansas funded by a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
The center, located at 701 Main St. in Pine Bluff, is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday and closed on Sunday. Support for the center is provided in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, contact the center at (870) 536-3375, info@artssciencecenter.org or visit the website at www.artssciencecenter.org.
This event was posted Oct. 21, 2010 and last updated Oct. 21, 2010
