Hybridization Art Workshop, planned art exhibition at UW | New

August 24, 2021

A hybridization workshop and art exhibit are scheduled for later this week at the University of Wyoming.

The Hybridization Art Journaling Workshop, led by Lander-based artist Rosie Ratigan, takes place from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, August 28 at UW’s Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center.

The course will cover the basics of how artists and scientists use journaling, as well as information on how to keep a personal journal. The workshop is open to both beginners and experienced journalists.

The cost is $ 40 per person, with scholarships available. The materials provided at the workshop include a journal, a micron pen, a set of watercolor pencils and a brush.

To register, go to www.wyobiodiversity.net/collections/events-activities/products/art-of-hybridization-journaling-workshop. For more information, email Elizabeth Wommack at [email protected].

The workshop is offered in conjunction with the Art of Hybridization art exhibit, also at the Berry Center. The Art of Hybridization exhibition is now visible until October. An art exhibition reception is held from 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. on Friday, August 27. A variety of artistic and scientific activities and tours of the Vertebrate Museum will be offered at the reception.

The Art of Hybridization project is a collaborative project involving Ratigan; Wommack, curator of the Berry Center; UW doctoral student Paul Dougherty, of Dover, Maine; and UW Associate Professor Matt Carling.

Funded by a new outreach grant from the UW Biodiversity Institute, the project explores new ways to communicate the power and importance of hybridization and speciation using several groups of Wyoming bird species that s ‘hybridize in the great plains of North America.

Participants will learn about three unique hybrid bird groups and how the UW Vertebrate Museum uses them to understand the evolution of birds.