Notices by Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social), page 2

For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt flyer, #artadventCalendar and #invertefest this final week of the year: my kaleidoscope of butterflies. Kaleidoscope is the wonderful name or term of venery for a group of butterflies so I designed this print to match the symmetrical images you can see in a kaleidoscope. There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), 🧵1/2
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #MastoArt #typography #termsofvenery #insect

Day 18 #ArtAdventCalendar: my #linocut of Slavic #fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful with the skull lantern. Before her mother’s death, she gave Vasilisa a wooden doll & told her to keep it secret & with her always & whenever she needed help or comfort to offer the doll food & water & seek her help & the doll would provide. The doll helped her with her grief after her mother’s death. 🧵1/n

#folktale #linocut #printmaking #VasilisaTheBeautiful #BabaYaga #illustration #MastoArt

#ArtAdventCalendar day 14: a print I made the 4th #FolktaleWeek2024 prompt trail. I thought of the fairytale Hans My Hedgehog, who knew all the right trails. I love the absurdity of a half-hedgehog man riding a rooster and playing the bagpipes.

His parents desperately wanted a child, and his father foolishly wished for “even a hedgehog”; his wife gives birth to a baby who’s hedgehog from the waist up. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #fairytale #HansMyHedgehog #illustration #folktaleWeek2024 #MastoArt

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician Virginia Ragsdale (1870-1945). The Ragsdale conjecture, made in her 1906 dissertation, is amongst the earliest & most famous on the #topology of real & algebraic curves, which stimulated a lot of 20th century research & was not disproved until ‘79. A correct upper bound has yet to be found. In her dissertation she tackles the 16th of David Hilbert’s famous 23 unsolved problems in mathematics 🧵

#womeninSTEM #printmaking #sciart #mathart

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible.
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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #MastoArt

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar:

Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first computers), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the Analytical Engine. More importantly, 🧵1/n

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#sciart #linocut #printmaking #mathematics #mathart #compsci #programming #histsci #WomenInSTEM #technology

For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 4: Years ago I made a print called ‘Turtles, all the way down’ for an art show about cosmology, where the expression is used as a metaphor for infinity regress. This echos origin myths that the Earth is supported on the back of the World Turtle. Though ostensibly about astrophysics, I took the opportunity to depict many species of turtles to celebrate their biodiversity. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #turtles #sciArt #conservation #endangeredSpecies #biodiversity #MastoArt

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: The first in my series of somewhat darker holiday folklore: my linocut Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn of Iceland, a gigantic monster cat looming over a tiny cabin, with a wreath on the door, in a snowy, nighttime woodland scene.

The first written accounts of Jólakötturinn, enforcer of good behaviour leading up to Christmas, date to the 19th century but the stories of the monster cat likely date 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #Yule #YuleCat #Iceland #folklore #legend #cat #MastoArt

Happy birthday to Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science.

In this linocut I've shown her in front of a carbon nanotube. She was recognized for her work on graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes (a form of carbon known as buckyballs, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #engineering #physics #carbon #nanotube #buckyball #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt

Happy birthday to #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) & Hollywood star. Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué & notorious starring role in Machatý's ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film. Hedy objected to him, a munitions manufacturer, dealing with fascists despite both being of Jewish heritage. She learned secret of her beauty was 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt

Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark!

Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry! 🧵1/n

#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci

Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math

Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠
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Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. 🧵1/n

#WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histstm #physics #computerscience #programming #linocut #MastoArt

Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer & choreographer, formed & runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, 🧵1/n

#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci

It’s such a kindness that people are working to salvage art and return it to artists. I hope they are able to recover works from local artists like Denise, who runs APS + G who lost their life’s work as well as out of town artists like me who just lost a few prints they had in any local galleries. It’s really heartwarming to see people are volunteering to help artists like this!

Please have a look at their site https://ashevilleprintstudio.com/ to see what they experienced and 🧵2/n

This was kind of astonishing and rather wonderful: someone working in Asheville to try and help with cleanup post-Helene and salvage any art they find at Riverview Station wrote to me that she found my tiger print and dried it in the sun! It had been at Asheville Print Studio + Gallery which was completely flooded. The damage at this green print studio and gallery and community hub was really devastating and it’s amazing to me that a print on paper could survive.
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#printmaking #Asheville

For #WorldCyanotypeDay I am sharing my portrait of English botanist & photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children who published the first book with photographs. She made photograms with algae specimen placed directly on paper treated with photochemicals in Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in October 1843, 🧵1/2
#portrait #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #cyanotypeProcess #multimedia #botany #botanicalArt

and two further volumes in the next decade. She collaborated with Anne Dixon (1799–1864) to produce further books of cyanotypes on ferns and flowering plants and also published other non-scientific or photographic books.

My portrait combines a #linocut of her and a cyanotype of fern leaves like those she made!

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For #SciArtSeptember prompt orphan, French mathematician & #physicist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) remembered for his work on Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Fourier’s law of conduction, Fourier analysis & harmonic analysis & their use to solve heat transfer problems & credited with proposing the greenhouse effect as early as 1824.

Being an orphaned commoner he could not seek a army commission in the scientific corps but took a military lectureship in #math. 🧵#printmaking #sciart #histsci

Today is the feast day of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), here surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. One of my most popular prints this year!

Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & theories but the nature of institutional #medicine & folk healing of her day (which she deftly combined). While she might be best remembered today as a composer
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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #histMed #botany #MastoArt