From the Chicago Tribune, Feb. 28, 2017: Lindsay Olson, Fermilab’s first artist-in-residence, will display several pieces reflecting her work at Fermilab during her upcoming exhibition The Elegant Universe: Art and Science, beginning on March 7 at Elmhurst College.
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Jim Jenkins likes to think big. A sculptor by trade and by passion, this Geneva artist is best known for his grand-scale projects with local public libraries.
From the Aurora Beacon-News, Nov. 10, 2016: Artist Ellen Sandor spent months talking with Fermilab scientists and learning about the ways they study subatomic particles called neutrinos.
From WDCB 90.9, Jan. 25, 2016: Fermilab artist-in-residence Ellen Sandor is no stranger to translating science into visual media. She’s worked with Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA to visualize the invisible. Now she’ll do the same at Fermilab. Listen to this eight-minute radio piece featuring Sandor and Art Gallery curator Georgia Schwender.
Aurora Beacon-News, Jan. 12, 2016: Fermilab has an artist-in-residence program that was launched first through Oak Park artist Lindsay Olson, who completed her year in residence in December, and Chicago artist Ellen Sandor, who is the new artist-in-residence.
Chicago artist Ellen Sandor, founder and director of the collaborative artists group (art)n, has been chosen as Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s artist-in-residence for 2016.
Now in the final stretch of her residency, Olson will show newly completed art work and works in progress and speak informally about her project at an open-studio event.