You’re Invited: Nov. 6 Art + Science Reception at the Plant Sciences Building
The event features artwork developed by North Carolina photo artist Leah Sobsey, who shadowed three NC State graduate students conducting plant-related research.
Join the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design for a public reception on Nov. 6 celebrating a fall artist’s residency that brought Leah Sobsey to North Carolina State University.
Sobsey, an image maker and associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, takes a multidisciplinary, experimental approach to art, creating photo-based works that incorporate textiles and other materials and explore science and the natural world.
Over the past semester, Sobsey has shadowed three NC State University Ph.D. students working to solve plant-related challenges:
- Adarsha Devihalli, a forestry and genetics student, is uncovering the molecular-level interactions that take place when Fraser firs are infected by a destructive pathogen considered a top threat to North Carolina’s Christmas tree industry.
- Hannah Pil, a genetics student, is searching for ways to make one of the world’s leading crops, corn, more resilient as she explores the genes of teosinte, one of corn’s earliest ancestors.
- Mohammedreza Zare, a chemical and biomolecular engineering student, is using gallium-based alloys, a semiconducting liquid metal oxide, to create cost-effective plant sensors that can sit on plant leaves, monitoring their health without harming them.
The artwork Sobsey created based on the students’ research will be displayed in the lobby of the Plant Sciences Building on NC State’s Centennial Campus, and the reception will give the public the chance to hear from the artist and students.
The event takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, this event is free, but registration is required. The reception is part of a series of events and exhibitions at NC State this fall that have focused on the beauty, function and diversity of plants. These efforts are the result of a partnership among NC State’s Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs, the Gregg Museum and the N.C. PSI.
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