Birding by the Numbers:
Integrating a Sense of Number with Artistic Expression
May 1–October 31, 2017
At the Birds of Vermont Museum, they like to say we are “where natural history meets art.” But what would ornithology be without math? What new facts and figures about feathered phenomena can we most appreciate? Inspired by these questions (and more), the museum sought works that might integrate that sense of number into art, bridging the real and imaginary, with birds silly and significant.
Twenty-three artists, some new, some returning, some young, some old, contributed twenty-four works to this show. The museum selected artworks that provide a variety of meaning, from simple counts to verbal puns, from delicate hints to meaningful data. No restrictions were placed on media, so the museum was rewarded with paintings, prints, quilts, collages, drawings, photography, sculpture, digital manipulations, and further combinations. The whole, though complex, works together.
Artists on display: Brian Machanic, Carol MacDonald, Carol McDowell, Carol Talmage, Claudette Eaton, Colin Talmage, Elizabeth Spinney, Jackie Mangione, Judy Dow, Katherine Guttman, Katherine Moran, Kerry and Linda Hurd, Kimberly Sultze and Jon Hyde, Kir Talmage, Linda Di Sante, Meg Walker, Nancy Stone, Nancy Tomczak, Rachel Grossman, Stephanie Leap, and Tina Valentinetti.
(text adapted from the venue’s press materials)
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Huntington 05462
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Image:
30 Years of Birding Love
by Carol McDowell
wall quilt
Courtesy of Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington