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![European Researchers’ Night 2009]()
![European Researchers’ Night 2009]()
![European Researchers’ Night 2009]()
This European Researcher’s Night is an European Union initiative that brings citizens and researchers closer through numerous and engaging activities. “Setting the Stage” was the theme in Portugal and challenged researchers to communicate their work using theater as media. The mural I created for the event at the gardens of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon was the delight of the young visitors! All figures were made from polymer clay and photographed to compose the panel.
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The illustration of the predicted moth Xanthopan morganii and the orchid Angraecum sesquipedale produced for the Darwin’s Evolution exhibition in Lisbon was selected by the jury of the GNSI Annual Member Exhibition to showcase at the Acadian Archives in Fort Kent, MN.
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![Exhibition: ‘Darwin’s Evolution’]()
![Exhibition: ‘Darwin’s Evolution’]()
The exhibition ‘Darwin’s Evolution’ celebrated the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his groundbreaking publication On the Origin of Species. I was commissioned to produce an illustration of a famous coevolution example predicted by Darwin – the case of the moth Xanthopan morganii and the orchid Angraecum sesquipedale – that featured in an exhibit panel right next to live specimens of the striking orchid.
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The Science Center of Sintra exhibited reproductions of 12 of my illustrations.
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The article ‘A Look at Science Illustration in Brazil’ was published in the Journal of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and covers the history of science illustration in Brazil and my participation at the II Brazilian Science Illustration Meeting in Curitiba. Download it from the Publications page.
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![Exhibition ‘Written in Bone’]()
![Exhibition ‘Written in Bone’]()
![Exhibition ‘Written in Bone’]()
![Exhibition ‘Written in Bone’]()
![Exhibition ‘Written in Bone’]()
Written in Bone was a 4-year exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum in Washington DC, about the forensic study of 17th century remains found in the Chesapeake area. I was commissioned to create a series of illustrations for the lesson plans made available on the exhibit’s website to be explored by teachers and students.
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![Opening of the Sant Ocean Hall]()
![Opening of the Sant Ocean Hall]()
The Sant Ocean Hall is a permanent exhibition of the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum. Many years in the planning and making resulted in a significant resource for the popularization and education of oceans as an ecosystem and how humans relate to it. At the evolution of whales corner, real size skeletons of fossil whales hang from the ceiling and an animation video features my landscape illustrations of extinct environments.
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![Opening of the Museum of Portimão]()
![Opening of the Museum of Portimão]()
![Opening of the Museum of Portimão]()
The Museum of Portimão is located in the south of Portugal and repurposed the facilities of an old fish canning factory to educate and popularize how this important industry works from catching the fish all the way to present it in a can. The museum commissioned me to create several illustrations that show the anatomy of fish used in canning and applied them in extra large panels right at the entrance of the permanent exhibit. The same images are used outside of the museum for promotion.
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I participated in the conference with a presentation about work commissioned for the Ocean Hall of the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, particularly on the production of the illustrations for an animation on the evolution of whales.
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The organizing committee of the II Brazilian Science Illustration Meeting invited me to be part of the roundtable “Science Illustration and Nature Preservation” and to also teach a workshop on using digital media to produce science illustrations. I also presented about the history, events and members of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators as being one of the major professional associations of science illustration.
