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The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program has a strong track record of fabricating and installing educational public artworks. Through our program, UC Davis students create iconic art pieces, for example, the wall of large panels showing drought resistant plants greeting arboretum visitors (Nature’s Gallery), educational ceramic art throughout Shields Oak Grove, and a largescale mural at the Raptor Center, among others. These artworks are fueled by collaboration between students, teaching assistants, faculty and volunteers. We aim to positively impact students by teaching them creative visual narrative, increasing confidence in their artistic and communication skills, and empowering their ability to understand and communicate science. UC Davis students routinely report working with the Art/Science Fusion Program as their favorite university experience.
Currently, undergraduates in the course “Art, Science, and the World of Insects” are building four ceramic mosaic murals (15’ wide x 5’ tall) located behind the UC Davis Arboretum Nursery adjacent to the Climate Adaptation Living Laboratory (CALL) garden. These murals will display various CA ecosystems and how they are responding to climate change.
We seek funding to:
1. Enhance building of CALL garden murals.
2. Create of educational signage to increase visitor learning.
3. Train volunteers to assist with murals.
4. Develop a website.
5. Offer public workshops to increase community participation.
Your support will enhance artwork already underway, as well as creating educational tools for future teaching efforts. The lives of thousands of people will be impacted— students will gain confidence in themselves, and community members will enjoy life- long learning.
The Art/Science Fusion Program is known as "a hotbed of innovation," bridging art and science through undergraduate courses, exhibitions, performances, and colloquia — fostering collaboration among design faculty, science faculty, museum educators, professors, artists, and students.
"Our goal is to raise $10,000 to provide more opportunities for UC Davis students across campus," the coordinators wrote on the website. "Funding will support supplies to enhance student-fueled public art, such as our large-scale murals, educational signage for murals that will enhance the experience for students and community members, the opportunity to pilot ceramic and screen-printing workshops, development of a website, and a volunteer recruitment and training program."
Please read this article highlighting this incredible program here!
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