Join Dr. Margaret Simon from NC State's Department of English to discuss Margaret Atwood's novel Hag-Seed, a modern retelling story of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Part of the upcoming multi-site exhibition Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures, the corn maze From Teosinte to Tomorrow at the NC Museum of Art park will be open through the end of October. Free and open to the public.
A quarter-acre of the NC Museum of Art park is currently planted in a corn maze - the symbolic entrance to the exhibition ART'S WORK IN THE AGE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. Renda will discuss the genesis of the project and introduce some of the 17 artists represented in the exhibition.
Part of the Art's Work/Genetic Futures multi-site exhibit, join NC State ethnobotanist Jillian De Gezelle at the corn maze in the Museum Park for a conversation about identity and community and the food on our tables.
Join Dr. Fred Gould, University Distinguished Professor of Entomology at NC State, for a discussion of biopunk sci-fi cult classic The Windup Girl. Part of the Art's Work/Genetic Futures exhibition.
Being a docent is cool, and you should do it.
America Project, by Paul Vanouse, is a live, interactive biological art installation whereby the DNA from visitors' donated spit will be extracted, combined and processed to create electrophoresis gel art.
America Project, by Paul Vanouse, is a live, interactive biological art installation whereby the DNA from visitors' donated spit will be extracted, combined and processed to create electrophoresis gel art.
Opening Reception for Art's Work/Genetic Futures, a multi-site art-science exhibit and symposium led by the NC State University libraries and the GES Center, held at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, with additional exhibits in the physical and digital display spaces of the libraries.
Artist Joe Davis will be conducting the Lucky Mice experiment in the D.H. Hill exhibit gallery, with a breakout brown-bag lunch to talk to students.
The GES Center, NC State University Libraries, and Gregg Museum of Art & Design will host a symposium to discuss the Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology exhibition. The symposium will bring together artists, humanists, and social/natural scientists, using the exhibition as a departure point for conversations about the future of biotechnology and genetics.
Join us for a discussion of Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake in preparation for Ms. Atwood's talks at NC State on November 15.