Nightlife: Art of Science, Science of Art

This week we explore where creativity, craft, and the natural world meet, with talented illustrators, artists and other partners throughout the Academy. A must for all lovers of art, science, and everything in between.

Local Art supplier Flax Art and Design is will present an interactive station where you can try a variety of art materials and learn some tips to improve your sketching.

We will feature the work of the following artists, presented by the artists themselves:

Tiffany Bozic - A frequent Academy collaborator whose work in fine art is inspired by the natural world, particularly the ocean.

Isabella Kirkland – A fine artist who paints beautifully intricate scenes of nature, and whose work has often concentrated on recently discovered species.

David Tomb – An artist who has worked extensively with the Academy's collections to create his artwork based of the beautyof birds.

Giovanni Maki – A scientific illustrator who works here at the Academy in the Spider Lab.

Julianna Olsen – A scientific illustrator who works here in the Academy's Botany department.

Tom Daniel – A scientific illustrator who works here in Academy's Botany Department and oversees much of the Academy's scientific illustration.  He will show how the process of scientific illustration unfolds.

Jim Boyer – An Academy docent who draws hilarious cartoons inspired by and about the Academy, in a style that has been compared to the Far Side's Gary Larson.

Improvisational live artwork by Dean Gustafson, Virdell Hickman, and Carrie Leeb.

Also caricatures drawn by Big Al.

21 and over only.