Lecture: The Intersection of Art, Science, and Storytelling with Lauren Redniss
Critically acclaimed writer and artist Lauren Redniss is one of the most innovative literary talents of our time. The author of three acclaimed books, including National Book Award finalist Radioactive, Redniss’s marriage of journalism, history, science, and visual arts has expanded the realm of non-fiction. Her work is a journey to the place where art, science, and storytelling intersect. The research for her books leads her to the far reaches of the globe. She has interviewed atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima, weapon specialists on the Nevada desert, a lighthouse keeper in the foggiest place on earth, lightning strike victims, and the scientists who run the “Doomsday Vault” in the Arctic where the world’s agricultural reserves are stored.
In Paris, she examined the still-radioactive papers of Nobel Laureate Marie Curie. She has explored rainmaking efforts during the Vietnam War and the economics of weather disasters like Hurricane Katrina. She is the first writer to discover and reveal the Old Farmer’s Almanac secret weather forecasting formula. Redniss brings her ideas to vivid life with her acclaimed artwork and design.
Join us to hear her talk about the intersection of art, science, and storytelling as part of Northwest Arkansas Community College’s Spring Arts & Culture Festival.
Free, tickets required. Reserve your spot online or with Guest Services at 479.657.2335 to reserve your spot today.
About Lauren Redniss
Lauren Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” Her book Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She teaches at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. For more information on the speaker, please visit http://www.prhspeakers.com.
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