Sandra Schachat: Art meets Nature/East meets West in Tuesday lecture
Sandra Schachat will give an illustrated talk, "Japonisme and biodiversity in fin-de-siècle French art,” on Tuesday [Oct. 27] at 3:30 p.m. in Howell Hall, Room 103 on the Mississippi State campus.
The lecture will be given as a part of associate professor of art Benjamin Harvey’s “Art in France, 1850-1900.” Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.
Schachat holds a B.A. in art history and archaeology from the University of Maryland, where she wrote her honors thesis on "proto-Surrealist" insect illustration and pre-Darwinian evolutionary theory. She is currently a M.S. student at the Mississippi Entomological Museum. For her graduate research, she examines moths from Europe, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and Australia in order to reconstruct the evolution of their wing patterns.
Schachat is the author of two publications on insects in art history and six publications on ecology and evolution, and currently holds a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
The program is supported by the MSU Department of Art and the Department of Entomology. For more information, please contact Brent Funderburk at bfunderburk@caad.msstate.edu or 662-325-2970.
