Virtual Animal Adventure
Interactive Biology Exploration with
Model Organism Zoo
South End Branch Library
685 Tremont Street in the South End
Archemy Melanin Project: Art Class for Teens
with Daniel Jay, scientist, professor, and artist.
Friday, February 19, 3:00-4:30pm.
https://boston-public-library.zoom.us/j/87123877384
2020 has been a year to remember. Throughout history, people have turned to
art to document the events of their time, to help heal their communities and
strive for a better world. Daniel Jay makes science influenced art in which he
uses scientific materials as art media to express his feelings about science and
social issues in a series of projects he calls Archemy. In ARCHEMY Melanin
Project, Jay explains skin color, the pigment melanin found in the cells of all
species, and uses squid ink, composed of melanin, as an art medium to make art
that speaks to social injustice and systemic racism. In this art class you will have
a time to learn, strengthen, and build your collective knowledge about racism.
And, you will have a time to express, through painting, your own feelings and
thoughts about inequality now and your visions of justice for all people that will
encourage us to be agents of change for justice in our communities.
Daniel Jay, PhD. Dean of Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.
Professor of Drawing & Painting. School of MFA Boston.
For info about art supplies for your work, please call Children’s Librarian,
Margaret Gardner, at the South End Branch. (617-536-8241)
Thanks to Charlie Gluck, Youth Outreach Librarian at BPL, for sharing all these amazing resources with our families!