Artist Talk | Rebecca Kamen

Rebecca Kamen, sculptor and lecturer on the intersections of art and science, seeks ‘the truth’ through observation. Her artwork is informed by wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and by connecting common threads that flow across various scientific fields to capture and re-imagine what the scientists see.
Kamen is a professor emeritus of art at Northern Virginia Community College and continues to investigate how the arts and creativity can enhance innovation and our understanding of science. An outcome of Kamen’s research has included the development of an art component for George Mason University’s Aspiring Scientist Summer Internship Program (ASSIP), encouraging science interns to use the arts as an innovative way of interpreting their research.
Currently, Kamen is serving as artist in residence in The Computational Neuroscience Initiative and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kamen's work is currently on display at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture and the UT Downtown Gallery as part of "Art, Movement, + Disability: Transcending the Beauty Paradigm."
ASL interpretation will be available for this event.
These exhibitions and related programming are supported in part by a grant from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Tennessee Arts Commission’s Arts for All program. Co-sponsorship is provided by UT’s Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts, the School of Art Programming Committee, and through a College of Arts and Sciences Haines-Morris Grant. Additional funding is provided by The Creative Motif Fund.