Jump to content

Mara G. Haseltine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mara G. Haseltine
Mara G. Haseltine inside her Sculpture SARS Inhibited Biopolis in Singapore, 2006
BornFebruary 22, 1971
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOberlin College San Francisco Art Institute
Notable workWaltz of the Polypeptides, SARS inhibited, Homologous Hope, Transcriptease
MovementSci-Art, Geotherapy, Environmental Art
AwardsScholarship Aspen Institute Leadership Program, 2012

Explorers, FLAG No. 75, 2011

Artist in Residency Imagine Science Films, 2012

Artist in Residency at Trinity College Dublin for Microscopy, 2011
Websitehttp://www.calamara.com

Mara Gercik Haseltine (born 22 February 1971) is an American artist and environmental activist who has shown and worked internationally.[1][2][3] She collaborates with scientists and engineers to create her work, which focuses on the link between human's shared cultural and biological evolution.[3]

Early life and family

[edit]

Her father is an American geneticist Dr. William A. Haseltine, a professor of biochemistry at Harvard University.[1][2]

Career

[edit]

Haseltine has worked internationally and collaborated with scientists and engineers to focus on the link between human's shared cultural and biological evolution.[1][2]

Waltz of the Polypeptides sculpture on the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory campus in Long Island, New York

Artist

[edit]

Haseltine worked for feminist French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle and created mosaics in Normandy and France. She has built the 'Waltz of the Polypeptides,' 'SARS Inhibited.' [2][4]

Environmental activist

[edit]

She is the Art Director of Geotherapy Art Institute Associates.[4]

Recognition

[edit]

Haseltine has featured in the film 'Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic' to reveal a microscopic threat found beneath the ocean.[5] She has been featured in the book 'Confronting Morality with Science and Art,' written by Pascale Pollier-Green.[6]

.

Homologous Hope sculpture in the UPenn Medical Basser Research Center for BRCA
Supernatural 1 sculpture, 2014

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "From father to daughter". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Proteic grace". Protein Spotlight. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  3. ^ a b "Our October Issue is Out!". SCIART MAGAZINE. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  4. ^ a b Schmidt, Benjamin (2014-11-27). "Mara G. Haseltine Presents Her 'Portrait of Our Oceans in Peril' Exhibition". The Source. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  5. ^ "Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic". Wild & Scenic Film Festival. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  6. ^ Pollier-Green, Pascale (2007). Confronting Mortality with Art and Science: Scientific and Artistic Impressions on what the Certainty of Death Says about Life. Asp / Vubpress / Upa. ISBN 978-90-5487-443-0.