This paper focuses on how the arts heighten cognitive experiences through the use of natural materials and sites and the engagement with the natural world. The arts expose viewers to new ways of seeing, feeling, and thinking about nature; this can lead to greater awareness of and motivation to act on behalf of nature. The author examines the…

The artist and scientist have been depicted as polar opposites since Michelangelo claimed that Leonardo da Vinci was wasting time with foolish inventions while his art suffered. However, the artist taking on the role of the researcher has precedent. In the 1960s, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), led by Bell Labs' engineer Billy Kluver,…

The relationship between skill and imagination in art is obscured by those theories of expression which make a distinction between ideas on the one hand and the technical methods adopted to express them on the other. Author suggested that this division between the idea and the technique has a wider significance beyond art education as a whole.…

Sculpture is the revelation of our withness with things: our being-in-the-world. Because this is so, sculpture has a special and healing role in our times. (Author)