Daily News | Philly’s Academy of Natural Sciences brings art into science’s fold
The traditional way for a science museum to explore water and the environment is generally not by filling a gallery with a cacophony of peeper frogs or by erecting a 35-foot-high tower of funnel, cistern, and sousaphone bells next to a couple of loping dinosaurs at the front of its building.
All of these projects — from the “art adventure” walk to the peepers in the gallery to the tower of sousaphone bells out front — are elements of “Watershed Moment,” the academy’s first foray into commissioned artwork and the center of its celebration of “Water Year 2022.” “We’re a science institution, we get that, and we look to our curators, our collection managers, our environmental scientists for all of their knowledge and inspiration,” Cooper said, in a recent interview.
“Those external partners can sometimes take the form of artists ‚” she said in an interview.“Or they can take the form of partnerships with other scientists. Artists, like scientists, are great noticers. They raise questions though, in different ways. They have different forms of communication. They allow a kind of access to some of the questions around what science is researching.”
“It was a kind of epiphany for the artists to realize that right in the neighborhood where we are situated, you can see that ... the water flows to the Schuylkill from here and there is buried, underground, this creek called Minnow Run,” said McDougall. “And so they decided, based on their own revelation, to try to translate that into a public experience.
“We ran out of the building and went behind and began investigating Cherry Street from 19th Street, past 20th, and then down to the river,” MacLaughlin said. He recalls thinking “oh my gosh, this is both an urban watershed and a sculpture.”
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