Sci/Art Works
State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity. Group exhibition at the Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University. Co-curated exhibit with Betsy Stirratt, Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art. Aug 28-Nov 18, 2020. A pdf of the essay I wrote for the exhibit catalog, entitled Biodiversity is Essential is available by clicking here.
State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity. Group exhibition at the Indiana State Museum. Co-curated exhibit with Betsy Stirratt, Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art. Feb - Aug, 2021.
Leaf Photograms. Group exhibit Living Proof: flora, fauna, & fossil fuels. Space 151, San Francisco, CA. Jan 13-Feb 26, 2018. [Published article about this work: Dolinsky, M. and Hangarter, R.P. 2016 The Living Canvas: Interactive Chloroplasts. Leonardo. DOI: 10.1162/LEON_a_01231]
PONDerings: Art in pond leaves (collaboration with Margaret Dolinsky). [RE]Imagining Science. Group exhibition at the Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, IN. Oct 14-Nov 16, 2016
Color of Life, 2015, Photographs for Group Exhibit, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA.
sLowlife: 2005-2015, Traveling exhibit derived from the 2003 IU sLowlife exhibit. Installations: US Botanic Garden, Washington DC, Oct 26, 2005 to March 26, 2006; Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY, Dec 23, 2006 – April 1, 2007; Chicago Botanic Garden June 23-Oct 21, 2007; Chemical Heritage Foundation Clifford C. Hach Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Feb 2009-Jan 2010; Montshire Science Museum, Norwich, VT, Sept-Nov, 2012; The North Carolina Arboretum, Ashville, NC, Jan 25-May 10, 2015. [Since its first installation in 2005, the exhibit has been seen by over 3 million visitors.]. [Published article about this work: Hangarter, R.P. 2006 sLowlife: Communicating an Awareness of Plants Through Science and Art. Public Garden 21: 23-24]. Click here to see companion web site for the sLowlife exhibit.
The Living Canvas, 2014, Center of Excellence for Women in Technology Showcase, Indiana University, IN.
The Living Canvas: Painting with Chloroplasts, (collaboration with Margaret Dolinsky). Part of Imag(in)ing Science group exhibition at the Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, IN. 2013
Moving Plants, 2011, Video about plant movements, Museum of Science and Technology, Santiago, Chile.
Moving Plants, 2009, Video about plant movements, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO.
The Natural Heritage of Indiana. Contributed multiple time-lapse and video segments to two episodes of this four-part PBS Documentary. Received a regional Emmy Award in 2008 for photography in the Life in the Water episode which can be viewed here: https://www.pbs.org/show/natural-heritage-indiana/.
Unseen Acts and Altering Perceptions: Art exhibit of plant time-lapse movies at Illinois Institute of Technology: Institute of Design, Chicago, IL Oct-Nov 2008.
Arts Botanica: Art exhibit of plant time-lapse movies at the Loyola University Art Museum (LUMA), Chicago, IL June 1-8, 2007.
Inflorescence: Plant movies exhibited by invitation, in art show with 4 artists at “The David Weinberg Collection”, a Chicago art gallery. March 2 – May 5, 2007.
Brood X, 2004: This art film about the 17-year cicadas was an invited work shown in Human Nature I: The Natural World, an art exhibit at the School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Oct 20-Nov 18, 2006.
Return of the 17-year Cicadas: This 14-minute cicada film was selected for screening at the SILVERDOCS: AFI / Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, June 13-18 and at the CINEviews Film Festival in Lynchburg, VA, Nov 2006.
Return of the 17-year Cicadas: This 5-minute film documenting the 17-year cicada emergence in 2004 won the 2005 Science & Engineering Visualization Award from NSF and the journal Science. This film was based on my 17 min version, Brood X, 2004. Reported in Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2005/), Science for kids, National Geographic for Kids. On exhibit at Field Museum in Chicago since May 18, 2007
Brood X, 2007, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL.
Undercurrents: A 15 min movie I created to accompany a dance performance entitled, “Rooted, Grounded and Manifested” by the Indiana University African American Dance Company. Performed at Buskirk-Chumley Theater, April 9, 2005.
Moving Plants, 2005, Video about plant movements, McWane Science Center, Birmingham, AL.
Moving Plants, 2005, Video about plant movements, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Wellesley, MA.
Moving Plants, 2005, Video about plant movements, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, Tupper Lake, NY.
Moving Plants, 2005, Video about plant movements, Turku Arts Academy, Finland.
Moving Plants, 2005, Video about plant movements, Museum.BL in Liestal, Switzerland.
Moving Plants, 2004, Video about plant movements, Science Center Singapore, Indonesia
sLowlife: 2003, Art installation created in collaboration with artist Dennis DeHart. The installation included several video pieces, live plants, inkjet prints, and pieces created from dead plants and fungi. The exhibit ran from Oct 24 to Nov 21, 2003, in the School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University and received more than 1800 visitors.
Fast Plants, 2003, Indianapolis Children’s Museum, IN.
Plant Dance, 2002, Interactive exhibit, Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN.
Moving Plants, 2000, Video about plant movements, WonderLab Museum, Bloomington, IN.
Plants-In-Motion: Educational web-based resource for plant biology education. The web site contains over 50 movies of plants that are freely available for use by educators. This award-winning site is widely used all around the world and has been favorably reviewed by numerous sources (e.g., Science, Natural History, Trends in Plant Science). The Plants-In-Motion site receives on average about 1.2 million page views per year. Click here to visit Plants-In-Motion website.