The exhibition WILDLIFE: Visual Explorations of Biological Forms in Nature opens today at the Godine Family Gallery at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design.
WILDLIFE is an exhibition of biological art by 12 artists who spent 12 days in nature exploring and studying plants and animals in Natural History and Biological Art, a four-week summer course taught by biology professor Dr. Saúl S. Nava. An opening reception will be held today, August 5, from 4:30 – 6:30 PM. This exhibition of student work will be on view through Friday, August 9, 2013.
Visit the Godine Family Gallery
About Dr. Saúl Nava
Professor Saúl Nava teaches the life sciences and biology at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) and is a faculty research associate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He also teaches summer programs about art and biology. One program is called
Field BIO+ART: Collaborative R.N.A. (Research in Nature and Art). The other program is about natural history and biological art and is an introduction to visualizing plants, animals and natural forms.