How are you defining "science communicator"? Would you like professionals in the sciart community who communicate science through art to also take the survey?
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How are you defining "science communicator"? Would you like professionals in the sciart community who communicate science through art to also take the survey?
Oh my goodness, that is absolutely delightful!!
Gorgeous! I love the deep colors you use. They feel so... alive!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to posting here. I'd love to have conversations about #scicom, #sciart, small business entrepreneurship, robotics (I mentor two FIRST robotics teams), women in STEM, and how art inspires and encourages especially in difficult times. Cheers!
The impetus for kinetic designs is because I’ve tried making engineering themed jewelry before bt it hasn’t really resonated
Each academic field has its own set of values & what people find beautiful & meaningful. That’s a lot of the fun: figuring out how to capture those emotional ties in jewelry
I use a variety of other jewelry-making techniques: hand-stamping when I need a piece to feel rustic or timeless. Glass cabochons when I want the design to capture a feeling of expansiveness. Etc.
My current project is trying to figure out how to make kinetic, engineering themed jewelry.
Earrings showing the average temperatures across the globe from 1850-2018 (Data: Berkeley Earth, NOAA, UK Met Office, MeteoSwiss, DWD. #ShowYourStripes) Earrings resting on a stone background with growing moss.
Earrings showing the bubble paths left by charged particles passing through hydrogen-neon liquid in a bubble chamber. (Image created by the Big European Bubble Chamber at CERN.) Earrings are resting in a stone background.
Earrings showing a closeup of monarch butterfly wings, resting on a stone background.
Earrings displaying an image of a solar spectrum. (The spectrum image used here was created by N.A.Sharp at the Fourier Transform Spectrometer at the McMath-Pierce Solar Facility at the National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak.) Earrings are resting on a wooden background.
But sometimes a topic is too visually complex to capture in line art…or color is an important part of the design.
In those cases I enjoy using full color on aluminum. You have to be careful with how you frame an image when you only have a tiny space to work with. It’s a little like visual poetry.
Gold cutout-style pendant shaped like a DNA spiral, with the base pairing and major & minor curves represented. Pendant is resting on a grey background.
Cutout style silver pendant shaped like an anatomical heart, resting on a grey stone background.
Silver colored earrings with metal cut to the shape of a phylogenetic tree. A small circle represents where humans are within the whole of life on earth. The earrings are placed on a white paper with a large phylogenetic tree printed on it.
A closeup of a woman with blue & purple dyed hair wearing a dangling gold earring shaped like a Sierpinski triangle.
I try to work with a variety of media in order to capture different types of symbols and themes.
For instance, sometimes you can represent topics with what is basically line art but in metal.
I like this approach particularly for math & biology and widely recognizable concepts.
Earrings showing the average temperatures across the globe from 1850-2018 (Data: Berkeley Earth, NOAA, UK Met Office, MeteoSwiss, DWD. #ShowYourStripes) Earrings resting on a stone background with growing moss.
Earrings showing the bubble paths left by charged particles passing through hydrogen-neon liquid in a bubble chamber. (Image created by the Big European Bubble Chamber at CERN.) Earrings are resting in a stone background.
Earrings showing a closeup of monarch butterfly wings, resting on a stone background.
Earrings displaying an image of a solar spectrum. (The spectrum image used here was created by N.A.Sharp at the Fourier Transform Spectrometer at the McMath-Pierce Solar Facility at the National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak.) Earrings are resting on a wooden background.
But sometimes a topic is too visually complex to capture in line art…or color is an important part of the design.
In those cases I enjoy using full color on aluminum. You have to be careful with how you frame an image when you only have a tiny space to work with. It’s a little like visual poetry.
Gold colored Fibonacci spiral shaped pendant on a white paper covered in equations.
Small glass Klein Bottle pendant tied on a brown leather cord, resting on an aged wooden plank.
Bronze disc hand-stamped with a representation of the Orion constellation, resting on a stone background with green moss growing in the cracks.
Gold colored earrings shaped like a virus on one earring and an antibody on the other earring, resting on a grey stone background.
Hi, everyone! I’m Maile, the founder of Boutique Academia, a science & math jewelry studio located in the Pacific Northwest.
I love designing pieces that encourage & inspire women in STEM. Science communication via wearable art is my jam.
www.boutiqueacademia.com
Here are some of my favorites.