News
Dr. Paige Jarreau has just published an interview with me on From the Lab Bench!
Paige is herself an extremely impressive and multi-talented science journalist and photographer, so I'm very pleased to count her as a friend, as well. When you're done reading that fantastic write-up, make sure to dig around the site a while as it has loads of other interesting features including a page devoted to her beautiful photography.
Have you noticed fewer holes in your Swiss cheese over the years? Apparently this cheese (also known as Emmental cheese overseas - something I accidentally discovered for myself on residency in Iceland) had a lot of holes because small particles of hay dust used to regularly drift their way into the milk in the normal course of farming. Our increasingly industrialized processes sterilized the cheesemaking environment so much that the holes have been mysteriously disappearing. Now that the cause has been discovered, though, cheesemakers can judiciously add hay dust back into the milk.
The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's Let's Talk Arts series has published their interview with me! There are two ways to view it:
I really appreciate Dr. Joni Hand's insightful questions as well as all the work the council members and staff and juror Ruth Ann Reese put into the Wild Things national juried exhibition and follow-up with me.
Tonight I will be presenting my residency work at the Bòlit. Centre in Girona, Spain. Here's the announcement page, with an excerpt below in the original Catalan (edited slightly as they accidentally reported my birth year as 1996, which I have corrected below):
Presentació de projectes dels artistes Ferran Cardona (Bòlit), Shelby Prindaville (Nau Côclea), Kubra Khademi (La Muga Caula) i Job Ramos (Casa Forestal de Sant Martí d'Empúries) i de dues noves convocatòries: Beca Brack/Nau Côclea/Singcat i ETAC 2016
Dijous 25 de juny, 19 h
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Shelby Prindaville (Kansas, EUA, 1986) és una artista visual i directora del Programa d'Art de la Saint Mary University a Leavenworth, Kansas que treballa principalment pintura i dibuix, encara que també fa incursions en tècniques mixtes, l'escultura i la instal·lació. Interessada en el paper de l'ésser humà en la construcció d'equilibri ecològic i en crear imatges centrades en la bella fragilitat i resiliència del món natural, Prindaville treballa amb el seu entorn més immediat i documenta les ecologies internacionals com a manera d'ampliar el seu propi món i el dels seus espectadors. La seva obra combina temes i ambients abstractes relacionats amb les descobertes científiques i propers a les il·lustracions taxonòmiques i de descripció zoològica. A les seves peces intenta, literalment i simbòlicament accentuar la delicadesa i la immanència de la natura, amb l'objectiu de connectar amb l'espectador i interactuar-hi emocionalment.
My friend and collaborator Dr. John Pojman is in the news again for adapting the clay I helped formulate into a mold-making medium for glassblowing.
This marvellous clay that I helped Dr. John Pojman develop has a new distributor! If you'd prefer to buy it in person (it's also for sale online), you can now do so at David Art Center in Metaire, LA.
"The opah, or moonfish, is the first known fully warm-blooded fish, according to a study published in the journal Science.
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Certain other fish, such as some sharks and tuna, have what’s known as 'regional endothermy,' or limited warm-bloodedness. It allows them to stay active in colder depths, as well as shallower waters. But the fully warm-blooded opah are unlike all other fish, at least so far as we know it."
I just completed a total renovation of this website in order to better serve mobile users. Here's hoping the squarespace platform works as well as its reputation promises!