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"Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science" at The Tang

By Joe Donahue
Published March 29, 2022 at 11:35 AM EDT
Installation view, "Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science" - Tang Teaching Museum, 2022
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Installation view, "Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science" - Tang Teaching Museum, 2022

We learn this morning about "Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science," a new exhibition at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College which explores the influence fiber arts have had on areas of sciences as diverse as digital technology, mathematics, medicine, and neuroscience. The exhibit runs through June 12.

To tell us more, we welcome Tang Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara, who is the curator of the exhibition Radical Fiber and Sara Lagalwar, a Skidmore professor of Neuroscience who is one of the faculty consultants on the exhibition and who has been bringing her neuroscience students to the exhibition.

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