When Art Meets Science

Artist Rebecca Rutstein has worked in painting, sculpture, installation and public art and has an ongoing interest in abstraction inspired by science, data and maps. She has exhibited widely in museums, institutions and galleries and has received numerous awards including the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Samantha Joye is Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences in the department of marine sciences at the University of Georgia. Joye’s research examines the complex feedbacks that drive elemental cycling in coastal and open ocean environments, and the effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances on critical environmental processes to gain a better understanding of how future changes will affect ecosystem functioning. The two of them are collaborating on research-informed art.