We’re bringing the sold-out event back for another year of the Atlanta Science Festival! Come join us at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts - Theater Lab to explore the endless possibilities that arise when you blur the boundaries of art and science.
Art and science are often unfairly placed at opposite ends of the spectrum. The overlaps between the two abound with art inspiring science, science inspiring art, and above all - creativity guiding both. Join Science Gallery, an arts x science venue in Atlanta, for a conversation about creativity and how artists and scientists leverage the intersection of art and science to provoke dialogue and solutions for shared global challenges.
This year’s Conversations in Creativity panel is honored to be joined by local artist Jane Foley and Emory School of Medicine Professor, Dr. Madeline Hackney.
Jane Foley (b. 1985, New Orleans) is a sculpture, sound, and new media artist living in Atlanta, Georgia (US). They have created sound sculptures for the Architecture Triennale in Lisbon, Portugal and La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, France with Zurich-based Sound Development City, as well as produced a sound composition that played in taxicabs throughout the 5th Marrakech Biennale in Morocco. In Atlanta, they have created public works for the High Museum, Dashboard Co-op, The Atlanta Contemporary, and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, among others. Foley currently teaches art at Emory University after having recently completed an MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To explore Jane’s art, visit their website.
Dr. Madeleine E. Hackney is an Associate Professor in the Emory School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology and a Research Scientist with the Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation at the Atlanta VA. She graduated from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and completed pre-medical curriculum at Hunter College, City University of New York. She received her PhD in Movement Science at Washington University in St. Louis and then completed post-doctoral work at Emory University and the Atlanta VA in geriatric sensorimotor rehabilitation. Before graduate school, Dr. Hackney was a professional contemporary and ballroom dancer with international performance credits, including the movies, Mona Lisa Smile, and Mad Hot Ballroom, the musical, Evita and The Today Show. Since 2000, she has been certified as an American Council on Exercise (ACE) personal trainer and is an instructor of ballroom dance, yoga and Pilates. Her Pilates mentor, Kathy Grant, was a direct protege of J. Pilates. To learn more about Madeline’s research, visit her website.