ARTsySTEM:

The Changing Climates of the Arts & Sciences

March 19 - August 1, 2015

The Arts and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) share a necessity for undertaking imaginative inquiry of what we perceive as truth and beauty. This exhibition highlights these endeavors in showcasing work that has both cursory and direct symbiotic relationships between the Arts and Sciences.

Artists featured in this exhibition range from being inspired by science, such as Mark Dion and printmaker Taiga Chiba, to those who engage in direct scientific analysis within a branch of STEM, as exampled by Allison Kudla. In offering this diversity of relationships between the Arts and Sciences through a selection of works suggesting different definitions and paradigms of the connectivity among these fields, we start to get a sense of the similar yet diverging streams of intention in the Arts and Sciences along with their shared methodologies and intuitions about order and disorder.

This exhibition is co-curated by Assistant Professor Mark Lee Koven, in the USU Department of Art and Design, and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Assistant Curator Adriane Dalton. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Obert C. Tanner lecture series: ARTsysTEM organized by Mark Lee Koven. ARTsySTEM is a new, semester-long program at USU integrating Art and Design with branches of STEM.