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展览

展览

 Through the Appalachian Forest Exhibit Flyer Artwork

This inaugural exhibition for the 俄亥俄州 博物馆复杂 presents twenty-four specimens from the Floyd Bartley Herbarium, some dating back to the 1930s. 这植物标本, 包括或超过30,000 preserved specimens was curated using plants collected by rural youth during summer camp. By presenting the two collections together, we honor and appreciate the surviving cultural and scientific legacy of exploration, observation and collection that is characteristic of Southeastern Ohio.

The exhibit presents multiple and layered interpretations of the Appalachian Corridor, referring to visual culture from folk and fairy tales, merged with scientific illustration. Participate in an endangered medicinal seed project and discover a map of the region locating the herbarium specimen’s origin. 巨大的互动, hand-painted mural and sound stage depicts over fifty native, 介绍了, at-risk and invasive species invites visitors into a process of looking, listening and interpreting, so that larger ecological relationships begin to emerge.

Funding for the 210 林大厅 俄亥俄州 博物馆复杂 gallery provided by the Konneker Grant for Learning and Discovery.

砖块和灰泥

​The Konneker-funded 210 gallery represents the first newly renovated space for the expanded museum concept in 林大厅. If you haven’t seen the renovated gallery, please stop in and have a look!

The Konneker-funded gallery in 210 林大厅 constitutes a novel space on campus for students and faculty to 合作 across disciplines to learn, translate and communicate research, creative activity and new discoveries to a broader audience. This new gallery serves as a space for the members of all campuses of the university to engage with the research and artistic vision of our students and faculty, providing a venue for students to test their voices, 合作, compromise and excel in a creative community focused on innovation.

    Before launching our first exhibition in the new gallery, this new 博物馆复杂 space has already been leveraged by the following programs/visitors:

    • newbb电子平台 Foundation Board Fall reception
    • Spring Theater Senior Studio performance The Landscape
    • OCEES Darwin Lecture reception by New York Times Bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, ​安德里亚•沃尔夫 (见也 http://vimeo.com/93417125)
    • Filmmaker/cinematographer 马特Koshmrl
    • Professor Lisle Gibbs, Director of the Ohio Biodiversity Conservation 合作伙伴hip
    • Scripps-hosted award winning author, and National Geographic Society’s Strategic Adviser for Environmental and Science Journalism——安德鲁·雷夫金
    • International Geoscience Programme conference focused on the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Researchers from the USA, China and Australia visited the Konneker-funded gallery, with a behind-the-scenes view of the ballroom, participating in a discussion with Alycia Stigall and Nancy Stevens about place-based learning across art and science.
    • The 210 gallery space has also been featured by Sally Delgado, KMA教育策展人, in East Elementary K-4 visits. On five consecutive Fridays during Spring 2018, she and her crew conducted an “envision the new space” activity as part of their tours. The hallway outside the 210 gallery was installed with historic pictures and concept renderings of the ballroom space, with groups using the Konneker-funded gallery for an activity during rotations among the various exhibitions. In all, this programming reached over 280 students! Stay tuned for updates on additional programming, 事件, and exhibitions planned for the 210 gallery space.​

    Next Steps: The Ballroom

    The curatorial team next has sights set on renovating the ballroom space on the 2nd floor of 林大厅. Stay tuned for plans on transforming the old Ballroom into a dynamic space for exhibitions, 事件, and interactive learning laboratories!