{"id":60261,"date":"2012-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-turns-love-of-science-into-art\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-turns-love-of-science-into-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/uri-student-turns-love-of-science-into-art\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student turns love of science into art"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 31, 2012 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 art student Chelsea Fredrikson has long believed that art and science should be combined in classroom lessons. That philosophy served her well at 溏心vlog免费B站, as she has created a variety of works of art that incorporate artifacts of nature or are based on scientific investigations.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI wanted to show that you can bridge the arts and the sciences to create an interesting and educational project,\u201d said Fredrikson, a Wakefield resident who graduated from 溏心vlog免费B站 in May. \u201cThe subject matter in most of my work is usually related to the natural world, like landscapes, inhabitants of the deep sea and microscopic creatures.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHer senior honors project was what she called \u201ca moss mural,\u201d in which she formulated a paint-like substance out of moss and other organic materials. On the resulting mural, the moss continued to grow.<\/p>\n


\n\tFredrikson was awarded an Undergraduate Research Grant from the 溏心vlog免费B站 Research Office to complete her final art project at 溏心vlog免费B站 in collaboration with a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Oceanography.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe project came out of a meeting I had with John Kirkpatrick, who studies sediments deep in the seafloor,\u201d Fredrikson explained. \u201cHe looks at whatever creatures live down there at the microscopic level to find out what life forms can survive there. He sent me slides of some of his samples, and I used those for my inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFredrikson typically makes prints by rolling ink onto sheets of plexiglass and using a press to transfer the image to paper. With this project, she decided to let the ink dry on the plexiglass and let that be the finished product.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOn the slides that John gave me of his research, you can\u2019t really see anything that you would identify as a creature, just light blurry spots that might represent oxygen or bacteria or something that isn\u2019t sediment,\u201d said Fredrikson. \u201cAs images, they are almost reminiscent of the night sky.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna spent a considerable time studying the slides before she began her work.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMy work is usually created out of a memory of what I have seen,\u201d she said. \u201cI never refer back to an image as I\u2019m working. The application of the ink reflects my memory of the slides.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually when I do a project, the actual process has to happen all at once,\u201d Fredrikson added. \u201cIt\u2019s very loose and spontaneous. The urge to do it will hit me, and I\u2019ll do it all in one sitting and then it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe final product is two 4-by-4-foot plexiglass sheets that are displayed standing vertically on the floor with lights illuminating them from behind. Both are painted in what Fredrikson describes as \u201cwatery, dark, rich colors; deep blues, reds, black and brown.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFredrikson is working at Yawgoog Boy Scout Camp this summer as she figures out her next steps. She said it\u2019s a fun and rewarding job, but she plans to move to Providence in the fall to become part of the arts community there and make connections with gallery owners and other artists.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not sure what I\u2019ll be doing in a few years. I\u2019m not much of a planner, and my art reflects that.\u201d Fredrikson concluded. \u201cI just want to do something that makes me happy. I have so many interests that I don\u2019t think it will be a very difficult thing to do.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 31, 2012 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 art student Chelsea Fredrikson has long believed that art and science should be combined in classroom lessons. That philosophy served her well at 溏心vlog免费B站, as she has created a variety of works of art that incorporate artifacts of nature or are based on scientific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}