Berenice Abott: An Essential Unity
A fascinating exhibit about a fascinating body of work: Berenice Abott’s photographs for a physics textbook project are a breathtaking blend of science and art in the service of education. From a 2012 exhibition.
Read MoreVisual arts + Calculus
“A common calculus exercise is to present a function and have students plot its graph,” explains Croatian math and computer science teacher Maja Cvitkovic. “But this is too passive for me.” To help students gain greater insight into functions and their corresponding graphs, Cvitkovic turned the traditional exercise “upside down,” as she describes it. Her...
Read MoreA Place to Connect
The ArtScienceMatchup site is about connecting artists, scientists, and educators to help create exciting new STEM + arts (STEAM) projects. Our goal is to develop a knowledgebase and a place for practitioners to find resources and collaborators. ArtScienceMatchup is a project of the Art of Science Learning, supported by the National Science Foundation. We’ll be opening the site to...
Read MoreThe Artist is a Mathematician
Carla Farsi is a mathematician AND artist, and her career seems to be a constant dialogue and dialectic between the two, rather than a simple collaboration. She points out the deep similarities between art and mathematics from the point of view of the practitioner: “Something that is logical, that makes a mathematical theorem, also makes some kind of a visual statement about structure and...
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