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Figuring out new and creative ways to communicate the reality of climate change remains one of the great challenges facing policy-makers, scientists, and advocates.\u00a0 This event brings together two artists with expertise in creating powerful images and visuals about climate science with a veteran science writer and editor to discuss how art can communicate directly and emotionally, and can engage the public, in ways that move beyond the scientific findings and data.<\/p>\n
Join the McGillicuddy Humanities Center on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. <\/strong>to explore this topic further.\u00a0 Email mhc@maine.edu to join, or register at: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/artofclimate<\/a>.<\/p>\n Moderator\u00a0Laura Helmuth, Ph.D<\/strong>. is Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0Scientific American.<\/em>\u00a0She is a science journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering all fields of health, science, technology, and the environment. Prior to joining\u00a0Scientific American,<\/em>\u00a0she was the Science and Health Editor for\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>and has held positions at\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>,\u00a0Slate<\/em>,\u00a0Smithsonian<\/em>, and\u00a0Science<\/em>. Helmuth was the President of the National Association of Science Writers from 2016 to 2018 and board member from 2012 to 2016.<\/p>\n Panelist\u00a0Jill Pelto<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0climate\u00a0scientist and artist based in Westbrook, Maine.\u00a0Her work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. By incorporating scientific research and data into watercolor paintings, she weaves visual narratives that reveal the benefits and costs of human impacts on this planet.\u00a0She’s conducted\u00a0field research around the world, including the mountain glaciers of Washington and the Transantarctic Mountains. She recently created a custom data-art\u00a0painting for the cover of TIME Magazine in July 2020. Her biography and a gallery of her work can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/www.jillpelto.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Panelist Deirdre Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0decodes the interconnected patterns that exist in\u00a0art\u00a0and science through the lens of biological patterns and data visualization. Her research has led to artist residencies at Integral Molecular Biotech and Winterthur Museum. Her paintings, prints and public art have exhibited at the Philadelphia International Airport, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Zillman Art Museum, Biggs Museum of American Art, New Bedford Art Museum, and Tacoma Art Museum. Her biography and a gallery of her work can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/www.deirdremurphyart.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Figuring out new and creative ways to communicate the reality of climate change remains one of the great challenges facing policy-makers, scientists, and advocates.\u00a0 This event brings together two artists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1724,"featured_media":6690,"template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[257,157,224,211,254,215,256,255],"tribe_events_cat":[42,31,74,28,63],"class_list":["post-6681","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alumni","tag-art","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-data","tag-environment","tag-painting","tag-science","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-art-event","tribe_events_cat-clas-event","tribe_events_cat-public-humanities","tribe_events_cat-symposium","cat_art","cat_art-event","cat_clas-event","cat_public-humanities","cat_symposium"],"yoast_head":"\n
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