Communicating Science: Biological Illustration

This Sophomore Seminar is an immersion practicum that conjoins art and science. Employing a series of techniques, students will learn the protocols of scientific rendering in an intensive hands-on approach. Field trips will include the RISD Nature Lab, the Brown Greenhouse, and John Hay collection of biomedical and botanical folios. Media will include graphite/ carbon dust; pen and ink (stipple, line); coquille board; scratch-board, colored pencil, watercolor and polymer clay. Course will be driven by project presentations focused on communicating science through illustration. Not for concentration credit in Biological Sciences programs. Instructor permission required; enrollment 10 students. 1/2 credit.