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Glass Fungi

Rendering of the future Woodson Hall Integrative Sciences Building

Aug 6, 2025

Woodson Hall and Plant Sciences Building Science+Art Initiatives

An important part of art-science at NC State is providing context for the display of that art. The Plant Sciences Building (home of NC State’s Plant Sciences Initiative) and Woodson Hall (home of NC State’s Integrative Sciences Initiative; slated for completion in Fall, 2026) are key contexts in which we aim to feature large-scale art…
S. Monroe's Macroglia Photograph by Nwabata Nnani

Aug 6, 2025

Art of a Scientist

In 2018, three biology graduate students at Duke University paired artists with scientists to collaborate on creation of artistic representations of the scientists’ data, leading to an exhibition called Art of a Scientist. It was so successful that it was repeated the next year, but the global pandemic in 2020 led to a hiatus.  One of…
Tracee Herbaough via AP, Glass Flowers at Harvard from the article "Realism of Harvard’s ‘Glass Flowers,’ on display for 126 years, 'a lost art form’ that still dazzles"

Aug 6, 2025

Glass Fungi

Michael Bradshaw (Asst. Professor of Entomology and Director of NC State’s Larry F. Grand Mycological Herbarium) is collaborating with NC State’s Gregg Museum of Art and Design on a future exhibition of glass fungi.  Modeled after the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s one-of-a-kind Blaschka Collection of glass flowers, Dr. Bradshaw is commissioning glassworking artists to…