Ruffin Gallery Panel Discussion and Reception - New Growth: Ten Years of ArtLab at Mountain Lake Biological Station

Artists and scientists are both seeking a deeper understanding of the world. This panel brings together artists and biologists who have been involved in ArtLab to discuss the ways that cross-disciplinary observations and perspectives enrich their work.

Panelists include Butch Brodie (Professor, UVA Department of Biology and Director of Mountain Lake Biological Station), Charlotte Greene (PhD Candidate, UVA Department of Biology), and New Growth artists Sara Bouchard, Chris Mahonski and Meredith Leich.

Panel Discussion: November 8, 4-5pm

Opening reception: November 8, 5-7pm

Exhibition on view: October 21 - December 6, 2024

Gallery open Mondays-Fridays, 9am-5pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

New Growth: Ten Years of ArtLab at Mountain Lake Biological Station celebrates the mission and history of UVA's Artlab Residency. Begun in 2013, ArtLab brings together artists with scientists to observe, explore, and investigate the natural world.

Each artist in New Growth is a past participant of the ArtLab residency, and each artwork reflects in its own way the type of exploration and research that the residency fosters. The artworks curated here communicate the profoundly positive impact of interdisciplinary interaction. Tapping into the principles of observation, they focus on the natural world and our relation to it, and call attention to the artist's central role as observer. This has the collective result of blurring the fictitious line between observer and the observed, and of highlighting the human ability to step out of and interpret the workings of our planet.

CURATORS: Sarah Irvin and Tracy Stonestreet

ARTISTS: Nancy Blum, Sara Bouchard, Gregory Brellochs, Rob Carter, Zehra Khan, Meredith Leich, Chris Mahonski, Nathalie Miebach and Ash Eliza Williams

New Growth: Ten Years of ArtLab at Mountain Lake Biological Station is supported by an Arts Enhancement Grant from UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts.

ABOUT ARTLAB @ MOUNTAIN LAKE BIOLOGICAL STATION

ArtLab was founded in 2013 by Megan Marlatt (Art) and Butch Brodie (Biology). The program's mission is to bring artists and scientists together to share philosophies and perspectives in their common quest to observe and understand the world around them. Art and science are both creative endeavors. Each year, ArtLab provides 6 professional artists and 6 UVA Studio Art majors with time, space, and inspiration to create. The residency attracts professional artists who have an affinity for the natural world and whose creativity explores the intersection of arts and science. During the ArtLab program, 60-80 scientists, artists, and students call Mountain Lake Biological Station home. The Station has a growing art collection including work from past resident artists, long-time Station resident Lucile Walton and John James Audubon.