10:00 am–12:00 pm PDT/ 1:00–3:00 pm EDT

This 2-hour workshop will be a discussion of historical and contemporary artist placement in museum settings, as staff illustrators or artist-in-residence. The workshop will cover tips and tricks of working with museums as an artist-in-residence and how museums can cultivate a collaborative practice with artists to showcase collections in new and innovative ways.

University of Wisconsin–Madison Zoological Museum | jwhisenant.com | @jacki.whisenant

Jacki Whisenant is an illustrator and educator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where they recently completed a master's degree in Entomology and currently work in the campus natural history museum. Jacki is grateful to have been a student of the California State University–Monterey Bay program in scientific illustration and hopes to encourage thoughtful collaboration between the conservation work done in collections and artists who can communicate that work to a wider audience.

Art in the Museum: Historical Practices and Looking to the Future

Sunday, August 21

10:00 am–12:00 pm PDT/ 1:00–3:00 pm EDT

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