Community Art Program
Community Art Program
The Community Art Program program is a collaboration between Friends of the National Center, the UCAR Center for Science Education (SciEd), and the Museum of Boulder. This program will support annual juried art shows in the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) Mesa Laboratory in Boulder on topics related to the intersection of Earth system science and art.
Call for Art
We are seeking artists to submit 2D pieces to our first show on the topic of Exploring Water Through Art.
The theme of Exploring Water Through Art can be broadly defined, but might include art that focuses on:
- Water in community (and community science)
- Water as a resource (scarcity and/or abundance)
- Water in ecosystems
- Water cycles
- Water quality
- Bodies of water
- Water in action
- Water as a metaphor
- Sacredness of water
Submissions are due Friday, March 14, 2025
Show Opens Friday, May 9, 2025 (artwork drop off the previous week)
For more information about guidelines/requirements and to submit a piece, please read the Exploring Water Through Art Submission form.
Community Review Panel
The community panel reviewing the art consists of community members who have dedicated their careers to the water science, water education, and art worlds in the Denver/Boulder area.
Our panelists for this cycle of the Community Art Program are (more coming soon):
- Katelyn FitzGerald – Software Engineer – Scientific Python Developer – GeoCAT (Geoscience Community Analysis Toolkit) – UCAR
- Nathan Hayes – Youth Education Coordinator – Denver Water
- Stefan Karg – Water Education Coordinator – CSU Spur
- Savannah Snody – Communications Coordinator – Museum of Boulder
- Diamond Tachera – Project Scientist – Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology and Co-Director of Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences – NSF NCAR
Questions
Contact Emma Byers at ebyers@friendsofthenationalcenter.org if you have any questions!