NATURE

Studio Night
2025-05-02 17:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
Located in Willard Hall 222, Kansas State University

A night to practice your scientific illustration skills, using specimens from the Kansas State Biorepository and Nature Collab. Go through the link and get a free ticket to register for the event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/studio-night-tickets-1330113608609?aff=oddtdtcreator

Partnership between the Hope Lab and Nature Collab, this studio night provides artists to get familiar with our collections. Our collections will be set up as still lifes and you can let your creativity soar, anything from scientific illustration to abstract pieces.

Bring your own dry medium art supplies, we will supply you with microscopes, magnifying glasses, and other tools to explore the specimens. No food or drink in the room.

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Nature Collab and Hope Lab–Kansas State Biorepository inaugural Studio Night Hosted by Ryan Grutsch

Jessica Wynne:Do Not Erase
2025-05-01 11:30 - 12:30
Online Art and Math Seminar:

Online Art and Math Seminar:

Title: Do Not Erase

Speaker: Jessica Wynne

Date: May 1st, 2025 11:30-12:30pm (Topeka, Kansas time) )

For participation we ask to register by the link at this page:

https://www.math.ksu.edu/research/artandmathseminar.html

Zoom link is sent to registered participants by e-mail one hour before the talk.

Info:

Jessica Wynne is an American photographer, born in 1972. She received an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1999 and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994.

Wynne’s first monograph Do Not Erase, was published by Princeton University Press in June of 2021. And in 2023 Do Not Erase was translated and published in Korea, Japan, Germany and China. Her work is also included in several other books: Turn Shake Flip: Celebrate Contemporary Art, Eyestorm Books (2001) and 25 and Under: Photographers, W.W. Norton & The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (1996). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Morgan Library & Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Wynne’s photographs have been exhibited at The Morgan Library and Museum, The Triennale di Milano, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Edwynn Houk Gallery, The Armory Show and Art Basel. She is a 2022 MacDowell Fellow, a 2023 Prix Pictet nominee, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Scientific American among many others.

Wynne currently lives and works in New York City. She is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.

https://www.math.ksu.edu/research/artmathfiles/25s_jwynne.html

Nature Collab Affiliate: Dr. Natasha Rojkovskaia hosts the Art and Math Seminar and invites you to Jessica Wynne: Do Not Erase

Earth Day - Nature Collab
2025-04-22 11:00 - 14:00
Nature Collab will join the Students for Environmental Action (SEA) at K-State.Bosco Plaza for the day (and the Union Courtyard

Nature Collab + Soil Conservation Society
2025-04-13 15:00 - 18:00
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Do Numbers Count in the Visual Arts
2024-11-14 13:00 - 14:00
Do Numbers Count in the Visual Arts:

A look at some modern examples where they might Speaker: John G. Hatch

Date: November 14th, 2024, noon- 1 pm

The seminar meets in zoom online, and is jointly co-hosted with Nature Collab and the Department of Mathematics

Topic: Art and Math Seminar John Hatch

Time: Nov 14, 2024 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://ksu.zoom.us/j/96871086491?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 968 7108 6491

Passcode: [REDACTED]

The meeting is jointly co-hosted with Nature Collab and the Department of Mathematics

The seminar meets in zoom online. To attend the please complete the 2024-2025 academic year registration form.

Link: Sent to registered participants by e-mail one hour before the talk.

Abstract: Rarely does one meet an artist who has a love for mathematics. In fact, quite a few became artists because they hated the subject in high school or, put more simply and honestly, they just weren’t good at it. As with everything, there are exceptions. I’ll be looking at some examples of modern artists who were fascinated by the role mathematics and its products could play in art. Their interests will range from non-Euclidean geometries, space-time formulations, irrational and imaginary numbers, 3-D mathematical models, and sequences such as the Fibonacci numbers. In many cases, the results were highly innovative even if the understanding was rudimentary and occasionally wrong.

About the speaker: Dr. John G. Hatch is associate professor of art history in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University in London Ontario where he teaches modern art and design. He received his doctorate from the University of Essex (U.K.) in art history and theory. Dr. Hatch’s research has frequently examined the points of convergence between art and science. His articles have looked at a range of topics including the geometry of ancient Greek temple design, the influence of Keplerian cosmology on Italian Baroque architecture, entropy’s role in the earthworks of Robert Smithson, and most recently the impact of relativistic theories on De Stijl architecture and design. The sciences are also a key focal point in the monographs Dr. Hatch has written on the Canadian landscape painters Paterson Ewen and Kazuo Nakamura.

Webpage of John Hatch:https://www.uwo.ca/visarts/about/facultypages/hatch_j.html

Nature Collab: Exploring Intersections, Confluences, and Cross-Fertilizations of Art and Science
2024-10-04 10:30 - 23:45
Kevin Bernstein and Nancy Morrow, Department of Art, will co-chair a panel at the 2024 Mid America Print Council Biennial Conference, From the Ashes. Kansas State University, October 2-5.

Nature Collab: Exploring Intersections, Confluences, and Cross-Fertilizations of Art and Science

October 4, 10:30-11:45 am, Bluemont Room, K-State Union, 2nd Floor

Panelists: Michael Garrity, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; Kevin Bernstein and Nancy Morrow, Department of Art, Kansas State University, and Elise Richman, Department of Art and Art History, University of Puget Sound.

Nature Collab is a new initiative of the Departments of Art and Entomology at Kansas State University, developed as a resource and platform to stimulate novel approaches to interdisciplinary research, creative inquiry, dialogue, and learning. This session, presented by Nature Collab and K-State’s Department of Art, explores the intrinsic, interconnectedness between the fields of art, design, and science, and looks at ways in which artists and scientists can influence and inspire one another, encouraging the cross-fertilization of creative and scientific inquiry independent of conventional discipline boundaries.
