Art Show: A Fusion of Art and Science

If you like to combine art with science, here you go.

In keeping with the theme, “The Consilience of Art And Science," the Pence Gallery and the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program are sponsoring a juried exhibition, open to all artists and scientists.

The  deadline to submit a CD and entry information is Feb. 20. The Pence Gallery, located at

212 D St., Davis, will exhibit the selected work March 10-April 12.

The Consilience of Art and Science is a centennial colloquium sponsored by the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion experimental learning program.

The goals of the Pence Gallery exhibitions are three-fold, said Art/Science Fusion co-director Diane Ullman, associate dean of Undergraduate Academic Programs, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor of entomology.

The goals are: 
1. To show create work that explores the intersection between art and science
2. To foster communication between the arts and sciences
3. To spark new ways of viewing the world and ourselves.

You can find more information--the rules and an entry form--here. For additional information, contact  Natalie Nelson, director of the Pence Gallery, at (530) 758-3370 or at penceartdirector@sbcglobal.net.

E. O. Wilson’s highly acclaimed book, “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge,” helped inspire the colloquium, Ullman said. His quote, "Neither science nor the arts can be complete without combining their separate strengths," provides the "intellectual foundation" for the Art/Science Fusion Program at UC Davis, the unifying theme for the UC Davis Centennial Colloquium and the 2009 juried exhibition at the Pence Gallery.

One has only to look at photographs of insects to realize  that "Neither science nor the arts can be complete without combining their separate strengths."