SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College’s Dunkerley Dialogue series continues Wednesday, March 30, at 6 p.m. with a conversation between artist Margaret Wertheim and Skidmore Associate Professor Amy Frappier.
Wertheim is a science writer and artist whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. The author of six books, including a trilogy about the history of physics, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Cabinet, and Aeon. With her sister Christine, she co-founded the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based practice devoted to the aesthetic dimensions of science.
The Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef, a participatory work on view in the exhibition Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science at the Tang is one of the more recent works created as part of the Crochet Coral Reef.
Frappier is a paleoclimatologist and Associate Professor in the Geosciences Department at Skidmore College.
Dunkerley Dialogues pair artists with Skidmore faculty members in a format that acts as a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines and can spark new ideas for all participants. The dialogue between Wertheim and Frappier will be in person at the Tang.
The event is free and open to the public. Visitors are required to be fully vaccinated. For more information, please contact the Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit tang.skidmore.edu.
