Image of the Zebra
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Art, Ecology, and the occasional zebra. Managed by Samuel Shaw, art historian, OU ordo.open.ac.uk/collections/Ar…
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#GlaSciFest June 14th: What's On📅 🧪GSF at the Riverside Museum 🌳GSF at Glasgow Botanic Gdns Gardens 🚌Benji the Play Talk Read Bus PlayTalkRead 📽️CinemARC UofGARC 🌉Forth & Clyde Canal Tour Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland 🖼️Transforming Landscapes in Film & Art and more👉gla.ac.uk/events/science…
At Kelvingrove today for the amazing Glasgow Science Festival Catch us for a pedal-powered screening of our new Art and Ecology films and some polar-bear-related activities 🐻❄️🐻❄️🐻❄️
Thanks to the wonderful folks at the Glasgow Science Festival and to all the children who came to Kelvingrove to do polar bear activities and to contribute to our pop-up 'Gallery of Animal Art'. Brilliant weekend. OU Arts & Social Sciences OU Art History
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Art History is for everyone. Start young - and keep on looking... OU Art History Paisley Museum Art History in Schools Art UK artuk.org/discover/artwo…
Did you know Scottish museum collections own many objects relating to polar bears? 🐻❄️ Read more in this new story by Image of the Zebra 👉 artuk.org/discover/stori… 'Adrift' by John Macallan Swan (1847–1910) 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
We're delighted to announce details of a new PhD opportunity with OU Art History: 'Art on the Underground, 1986-2020: contemporary legacies of a modernist project'. Further details on the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP website (tinyurl.com/29wrb2k6). Clare Taylor Image of the Zebra Art on the Underground
In recent years #ArtHistory has been transformed - but what might the future bring? This article & #mini-documentary features experts from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and looks at ways in which #arthistorians are responding to a changing world. open.edu/openlearn/hist…
One for Dr Anna Vaught....
The Polar Bears of Perth youtu.be/kGDrDWX9U84?fe… via YouTube 500 views as of today... Thanks to all who have watched and shared so far... #polarbear #Perth RSGS Perth Art Gallery Perth Museum Culture Perth & Kinross
Art & Ecology creates free resources for teachers to use in schools, to inspire thinking about art and the environment ordo.open.ac.uk/collections/Ar… Magic Lantern ClimateMuseumUK #climatecreatives #artandecology
I'm somewhere in the background of these pictures, looking thoughtful (as indeed there was much to be thoughtful about). Thanks to BBC Academy Live for hosting this fascinating event, and giving me chance to talk to Hamza Yassin about polar bears in Scotland 🐻❄️🐻❄️
Good to see piece in The Guardian about polar bears in UK: theguardian.com/environment/20… Patrick Barkham I'm working on a project about the long history of polar bears in Scotland. Let me know if you'd like to hear more
Join OU academics Carla Benzan and Samuel Shaw for 'Polar Bears of Perth' at Perth Museum. Using the pedal-powered cinema, you can learn about art, ecology and the role of polar bears as a symbol for the climate crisis 🐻❄️ 📅1 Feb, 12 - 4pm ow.ly/t7m750UOta8 OU Arts & Social Sciences
Join the OU's Carla Benzan and Samuel Shaw for 'Rising Waters in Art and Science', exploring how contemporary objects and exhibitions reflect the evolving relationship between water, land, and human cultures. 📅1 Feb, 6.30pm, Perth Museum ow.ly/x5gX50UOtxZ OU Arts & Social Sciences
While zebras have never been a common subject for artists, Image of the Zebra has chosen his top ten zebra paintings 👉 artuk.org/discover/stori… There are over 60 works tagged with 'zebra' on Art UK! #InternationalZebraDay 'Zebra' by George Stubbs (1724–1806) 📸 YaleBritishArt
