Saturday, November 9 | 10 – 11:30 am
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Join Michale Glennon, organizer of the Wool and Water Project currently on view in the NBNC gallery, to learn how to create knitting and crochet projects that represent scientific data in beautiful and approachable ways. Wool and Water blends fiber art with science to visually represent changing water quality conditions in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain and provide inspiration to protect our waterways. After a brief overview of the project, Michale will use examples from the project and from other artists to explore various ways to visualize data with yarn crafts. She will also touch on where to find data and how to get involved with Wool and Water as a crafter. 

This program will be a combination of lecture, show and tell, and question and answer formats, and is geared towards current knitters, crocheters, and other “yarn nerds” who want to learn how to design projects around visualizing data. Feel free to bring a project in progress to share and/or knit together if there is time! For a deeper overview of the project and the science behind it we recommend attending the gallery talk and reception the night before the workshop or browsing the Wool and Water website. 

Not a knitter but still interested in data art? Check out Michale’s Lake Champlain Data Art workshop, happening later the same day, for a fun, hands-on experience with no prior knowledge required!

About the Instructor:
Dr. Michale Glennon is a Senior Research Scientist at the Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute. She is an ecologist and uses wildlife as a tool for understanding threats to ecological integrity and watershed health. She has authored more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Field Ecology. She is also a board member for the Adirondack Council and Traditional Arts in Upstate New York. Michale obtained her B.S. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY-ESF. 

Michale also leads Wool and Water, a data art project that blends fiber art with scientific data to create visual representations of changing water quality conditions in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain Basin. This collaborative project uses knitting, crochet, weaving and other fiber arts to illustrate concepts and trends related to our waterways, and to provide inspiration for their protection.

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