Science Archives - Let's Talk Art With Brooke

Episode 95: Rock Hushka, Senior curator of the Tacoma Art Museum returns to the podcast to chat with me about the Sun, Shadows, Stone exhibition. Adrienne Edmondson, director of marketing, joins in as well. It’s a great chat. We learn about photographer and former geologist, Terry Toedtemeier (1947–2008), who has had a diverse and interesting career. It opened October 20, 2018 and goes through February 17, 2019.

Indian Cove, 2004. Inkjet print, 15 5/8 × 20 inches. Estate of Terry Toedtemeier, Collection of Prudence F.Roberts and courtesy of PDX Contemporary Art, Portland.© Tacoma Art Museum, photo by Lou Cuevas

Owyhee River from the N. End of the Tongue, Malheur Co., Oregon, 1999. Gelatin silver print14 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches. Estate of Terry Toedtemeier, Collection of Prudence F.Roberts and courtesy of PDX Contemporary Art, Portland.© Tacoma Art Museum, photo by Lou Cuevas

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Episode 51: Brooke talks with Nancy Marshburn on-site about her Healing Power of Art series which are part of the Harvest exhibition at the Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Marshburn uses her 20 year experience as a medical artist to combine art and science and anatomy and beauty.

Art has the power to heal. It evokes an emotional response, and emotions have an effect on the body’s physiological responses. Medical studies document the favorable therapeutic impact of visual arts: Looking at art can change brain wave patterns, the autoimmune response and neurotransmitters that shift the body from stress to relaxation. It also can modulate attitudes from fear to acceptance, from negativity to hope. Excerpt from Harvest exhibition press release from Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery.