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Scientific illustration - Student artwork 2013

April 19, 2013 – April 14, 2014  In the BioLounge


        Sunset Moth                               Amphipod and Little Girl      Grand Canyon
        Watercolor, Ink
and Acrylic         Adobe Photoshop                 Colored Pencil
        Danielle Forte                             Erin Collier-Zans                  Sierra Love Stowell

This new exhibit and website highlighting the Scientific Illustration class was designed with the scientist in mind. This is not a fine arts class. Instead the focus is on training those with little to no art background to be able to render accurate illustrations of scientific subject matter. All of the artists are pursuing degrees in museum studies or in one of the science disciplines. For more information, contact: Dr. Dena M. Smith, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology.

 

The Bees' Needs: A Citizen's Science Project
 
The Bees’ Needs is a free, interactive, citizen science project about native bees and wasps in the greater Boulder Area.
Become a Citizen Scientist and help us study the abundance and diversity of native bees and wasps! The Bees' Needs
 
 

Project: Notes from Nature

Take Notes From Nature

Notes from Nature is a transcription project allowing people just like you to sit down (or stand up) right now and start digitizing collections from more than 200 institutions. Until now many of these collections have only been accessible in person.

 

Exhibit: Ancient Southwest: Peoples, Pottery and Place

February 21, 2013-February 14, 2014  In the Changing Gallery

Curated by Steve Lekson, this exhibition features more than 100 rarely exhibited ceramics from the museum’s celebrated southwestern collection and takes visitors through more than 1000 years (AD 500-1600) of southwestern history. Photographs of ancient southwestern ruins by noted aerial photographer Adriel Heisey provide a visual and dramatic frame of reference for the exhibition.

 

Exhibit: Beetles

Oct. 8, 2012 – Oct. 8, 2013  In the BioLounge

Come by and immerse yourself in the diversity, beauty and behavior of beetles.

 

Exhibit: Moccasins in the Southwest

May 11, 2013 – February 14, 2014  In the Anthropology Hall

moccasins

This exhibition showcases the art and history of moccasin making among various tribes in the American Southwest and their importance within Native American communities.

 

If you have questions, please contact the Front Desk: 303-492-6892 or cumuseum@colorado.edu


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