Maker Faire: Art and Science

Professor Pat Drake, Dean, College of Education, invites you to participate in the 2014 Diamond Series.

Presented by renowned scholar and Professor Shirley Brice Heath, Maker Faire (Made for each other): Art and Science will focus on community organizations and informal learning environments, such as studios, rehearsals, and laboratories, in which the arts and sciences work together.

Before disciplines were separated in the 18th century, the arts and sciences belonged together in research, museums, botanical gardens, and areas of practice such as medicine and architecture. Once separated, however, museums and other community learning environments took their arts into museums that were often across town from science and natural history museums.

With the rapid growth in innovative technologies that rely centrally on images as well as other forms of representation, however, the arts and sciences have reunited increasingly since the start of the 21st century.

This talk gives an occasion to consider ways in which museums and other central cultural organizations, such as theater, ensemble music, and dance, have put arts and sciences into partnership once again.

About the presenter

Professor Shirley Brice Heath is the author of a dozen books and more than 200 articles and book chapters. She holds honorary degrees from universities in England, Sweden, and the United States and has taught and lectured at universities throughout the world, most notably ANU, LaTrobe, and Melbourne University in Australia, the University of Stockholm, and Kings College at the University of London.