Artist Josh Simpson and Astronaut Cady Coleman Discuss Science, Art, and Space Exploration

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Date/Time:Sunday, 09 Mar 2025 at 2:00 pm
Location Location:Brunnier Art Museum, 295 Scheman Building
Contact Contact:lectures@iastate.edu
Phone Phone:515-294-9934
Channel Channel:Lecture Series
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NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, a veteran of two shuttle missions and a 6-month Space Station expedition, is the author of "Sharing Space." Josh Simpson is a contemporary glass artist who uses old techniques to hand-shape fanciful planets.

Astronaut Cady Coleman, a veteran of two shuttle missions and a six-month Space Station expedition, is the author of Sharing Space. A popular speaker and media advisor, she coached Sandra Bullock from the ISS for her role in "Gravity" and is featured in the Sundance-premiering documentary "Space: The Longest Goodbye."

Inspired by the story of Apollo astronauts seeing the earth "hanging like a blue marble in space," Josh Simpson began creating his own fanciful marble-sized planets in the mid-1970s. This early artistic exploration, combined with his intense interest in physics, cosmology, astronomical phenomena, and all things mechanical, inform and inspire his work to this day. Josh Simpson is a contemporary glass artist who uses old techniques. Each planet is hand shaped with wooden blocks and other traditional tools at his Western Massachusetts studio.

Note: This lecture will not be recorded.