{"id":16148,"date":"2014-07-15T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/?p=16148"},"modified":"2016-09-07T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:57:08","slug":"view-from-sapsucker-woods-science-and-art-meet-at-the-cornell-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/view-from-sapsucker-woods-science-and-art-meet-at-the-cornell-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"View From Sapsucker Woods: Science and Art Meet at the Cornell Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ScienceArt.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ScienceArt.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ScienceArt-480x462.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Artist James Prosek recently painted a mural titled Wall of Silhouettes in the Cornell Lab\u2019s visitor center. Photo by ; DIANE TESSAGLIA-HYMES.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>Artist James Prosek recently painted a mural titled Wall of Silhouettes in the Cornell Lab\u2019s visitor center. <em>Photo by Diane Tessaglia-Hymes.<\/em><\/figcaption>\n              <\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sidebar-alignright sidebar-space order-bottom\"><div class=\"article-list list-style alignright\"><h2 class=\"article-list-header\">More From Living Bird<\/h2><ul><li class=\"article-item\"><div class=\"article-item-container\"><div class=\"article-item-media  content-living-bird-toc\"><figure class=\"article-item-media-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LaysanBanner3.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LaysanBanner3-720x329.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LaysanBanner3-768x351.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LaysanBanner3-480x219.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LaysanBanner3.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Laysan Albatross by Cliff Beitel\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"article-item-body\"><span class=\"article-item-header\">Living Bird Summer 2014\u2014Table of Contents<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"article-item\"><div class=\"article-item-container\"><div class=\"article-item-media  content-living-bird-toc\"><figure class=\"article-item-media-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-latest.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-latest.png 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-latest-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-latest-480x360.png 480w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Living Bird-latest issue\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"article-item-body\"><span class=\"article-item-header\">Living Bird Magazine\u2014Latest Issue<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"article-item\"><div class=\"article-item-container\"><div class=\"article-item-media  content-article\"><figure class=\"article-item-media-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-acrhive.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-acrhive.png 720w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-acrhive-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/living-bird-acrhive-480x360.png 480w\" sizes=\"\" alt=\"Living Bird archives\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"article-item-body\"><span class=\"article-item-header\">Living Bird Magazine Archives<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sidebar-alignright sidebar-space order-bottom\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code -->\r\n<span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-096b8ce3-0e2d-46c5-bbf7-12de3323c8da\">\r\n    <span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-096b8ce3-0e2d-46c5-bbf7-12de3323c8da\" id=\"hs-cta-096b8ce3-0e2d-46c5-bbf7-12de3323c8da\">\r\n        <!--[if lte IE 8]><div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div><![endif]-->\r\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/95627\/096b8ce3-0e2d-46c5-bbf7-12de3323c8da\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-096b8ce3-0e2d-46c5-bbf7-12de3323c8da\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/95627\/096b8ce3-0e2d-46c5-bbf7-12de3323c8da.png\"  alt=\"subscribe to Living Bird magazine\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\r\n    <\/span>\r\n    <script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script>\r\n    <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n        hbspt.cta.load(95627, '096b8ce3-0e2d-46c5-bbf7-12de3323c8da', {});\r\n    <\/script>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code -->\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Science and art are uniquely human endeavors. The mathematician-philosopher Jacob Bronowski held that these two seemingly opposite enterprises actually share a common origin, our innate drive to be curious. Many animals are curious, because it helps them learn important details about life such as what to eat, what to fear, and where to hide. For the most part, though, non-human animals learn through individual trial and error. Bronowski observed that the evolution of complex language inspired humans to begin exchanging curiosities, experiences, and knowledge about the world with one another, and eventually across cultures. Thus was born the duality of science and art, both driven by our insatiable curiosity about the world around us. Scientific methods organize and codify our explorations. Artistic methods express our curiosities and \u201cdata of the senses\u201d through less codified frameworks. Both endeavors advance through experimentation and bold vision, but also through error and failure. Indeed, science seeks truth by explicitly embracing the vulnerability of ideas and the inevitability of error. Art advances along remarkably parallel tracks of fearless innovation. Their roots lie in what Bronowski called our capacity for \u201cspeculative imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ornithologists have long revered the mutuality of science and art. Visionaries such as Catesby, Wilson, Audubon, and Gould made fundamental scientific contributions while exploring uncharted artistic space. The world\u2019s great natural history museums interwove artists with scientists to create dioramas that were both visually and scientifically monumental. Pioneering painters such as Liljefors, Jaques, Sutton, and Peterson graced the pages of influential science books as well as the walls of museums.<\/p>\n<p>The Cornell Lab has mingled art with science for decades. Our founder, Arthur Allen, pioneered color photography, and the original <em>Living Bird<\/em> was a scientific annual featuring paintings and verse as well as technical papers. Today the walls of our building are adorned with works by dozens of artists, varying from the realism of Louis Agassiz Fuertes to the joyful abstractions of Charlie Harper. Launched in 2010, our Bartels Internship allows the Lab to host a remarkable series of early-career artists who challenge us to explore both sides of our brain. In 2013, local sculptor Todd McGrain became our first official artist-in-residence (<em>see<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostbirdproject.org\">www.lostbirdproject.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of our 2015 centennial, I am thrilled to announce three monumental art installations at the Lab. James Prosek\u2019s <em>Wall of Silhouettes<\/em> pays homage to the role of bird watching in ornithology. Inspired by Roger Tory Peterson\u2019s iconic endpapers from <em>A Field Guide to the Birds,<\/em> this bold mural spans the full length of the north wall in the Lab\u2019s visitor center. The Sound Ring is an elegant, interactive audio-sculptural component of renowned sculptor Maya Lin\u2019s What Is Missing? memorial to threatened and extinct species around the world. This gift from the sculptor honors the Macaulay Library\u2019s ongoing participation in her inspiring project (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatismissing.net\">www.whatismissing.net<\/a>). Finally, Jane Kim\u2019s <em>Evolution and Diversity of Birds<\/em> mural will provide a visual journey through 375 million years of evolution, beginning with ancient marine life and ending with a magnificent and colorful celebration of modern birds. This mural will span 4,000 square feet on the south wall of the visitor center, and will take the artist more than a year to paint. By this time next year, Cornell Lab of Ornithology visitors will gaze in awe at the grand union of science and art within our walls.<br \/>\n<!--http:\/\/digital.livingbird.org\/livingbird\/summer_2014\/?pg=9#pg9--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and art are uniquely human endeavors. The mathematician-philosopher Jacob Bronowski held that these two seemingly opposite enterprises actually share a common origin, our innate drive to be curious. 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