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Artistic Musings of a Disease Ecologist
In our inaugural Art + Science talk, disease ecologist and artist Nina Sokolov takes us into her world of illustration, science, and bees.
By Women Eco Artists Dialog - WEAD
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Sunday, March 19 · 5 - 6pm PDT
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Online
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About this event
Nina Sokolov is a disease ecologist who fell in love with the world of insects when she started to draw them. With a microscope and a pen, she began studying pinned specimens from museum collections and becoming familiar with the anatomy of insects. Nina is getting her Ph.D. in biology at UC Berkeley where she studies bees and their viruses to understand how diseases can be contributing to declines of these important pollinators. She still uses her artistic skills to determine the fine scale differences between species that closely resemble one another. Additionally, she has begun illustrating native bee coloring book pages to teach kids about the diversity of bees. In this talk Nina will discuss how she uses art in her science today to learn about the species she’s studying, to communicate her findings to scientists and to the public, and getting people excited about insect conservation. Nina will also do a live digital drawing demonstration of a bee along with a Q&A so that audience members can follow along and ask any questions they have about art, science, or bees.
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Women Eco Artists Dialog - WEADWEAD is a pioneering network of feminist ecoartists, educators, curators, and writers working toward the goal of a just and healthy world. We focus on women’s unique perspective in ecological and social justice art. WEAD maintains an invaluable website (weadartists.org) that serves as a virtual gallery of ecoartists work, connects artists and curators with exhibition opportunities, and educates and enlightens through its ground breaking WEAD Magazine.
PURPOSE
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To provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others.
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To facilitate international networking among artists working with ecological and social justice issues.
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To further the fields of, and the understanding of environmental and social justice art.