As part of the Lazarus Artist in Residency, MICA will host a panel discussion with artist Tomás Saraceno, astro-physicist Mario Livio and former astronaut Marsha Ivins. Moderated by Luca Buvoli, artist and program director of MICA's Mount Royal School of Art, the participants will share their discoveries and methods of exploring space and discuss their approaches to decoding its mysteries and speculating about its future. Our hope is that this cross-disciplinary dialogue will inspire new ways of thinking, making and imagining what is possible in the studio, in the lab, out of the studio, out of the lab and even perhaps out of this planet.

With this Art & Science series, MICA is taking an active role in a Baltimore-wide conversation about art and the frontiers of science, highlights of which include the exhibition Front Room: Dario Robleto at The Baltimore Museum of Art; a lecture with Dario Robleto in conversation with scientists from the the Space Telescope Science Institute, organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art; studio critiques by artist-in-residence Robleto at Mount Royal School of Art; and the exhibition Imaginary Science Museum with MICA’s M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice and Graphic Design students.

Lazarus Artist in Residence: Tomás Saraceno
Out of This Planet, Conversations in Art & Science
Monday, March 30-Friday, April 3
The Spring 2015 Lazarus Artist in Residency explores Art & Science and invites artist Tomás Saraceno to engage in cross-disciplinary projects and conversations with scientists, engineers, and MICA faculty and students to explore themes such as gravity, flight, interstellar space and aerial photography/views.

The thematic focus of the residency and its goals of bringing artists and designers together with other fields and practices represent the insatiable curiosity and pioneering spirit of President Emeritus Fred Lazarus IV, whose leadership inspired and supported the teaching and learning of new fields of art and design.

RELATED EVENTS:

Imaginary Science Museum
Friday, March 27–Sunday, April 12
MICA Bunting Center: Pinkard Gallery (1401 W. Mount Royal Ave.)
M.F.A. in Graphic Design and M.F.A in Curatorial Practice students are developing exhibitions, museum branding and educational strategies to present an exhibition of unusual hypothetical museums, including The Podcast Museum, The Museum of Smell, The Museum of Self-Reflection, The Mojave Museum of Infinity and The Museum of Tiny Dinosaurs. Imaginary Science Museum is structured so the designers and curators are equal in this creative collaborative endeavor, presenting, responding, remixing, intervening, suggesting and supporting new ideas from their peers. Through Imaginary Science Museum, students demonstrate their ability to tell concrete stories about abstract ideas, and students establish and sustain a meaningful and engaging dialogue with peers.

Hours for MICA's galleries, which are free and open to the public, are Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m. -5 p.m., and Sundays, noon-5 p.m.

Front Room: Dario Robleto
Through Sunday, March 29
The Baltimore Museum of Art

For additional information on The Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition, visit artbma.org.

Image caption:
Tomás Saraceno: In Orbit
at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf 2013
Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno ©2013
Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York