People's Choice Winner Announced : Florida Atlantic University

'Cosmic Web' Wins in the 2020 Art of Science People's Choice

Congratulations to Carol Prusa, MFA, a professor in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, for winning the 2020 People's Choice award in this year's Art of Science Photography Contest, hosted by the FAU Division of Research.

Almost 800 people voted in the online contest of more than 30 photographs. The photographs were chosen from about 150 submissions. This is the in second year of the popular contest, which aims to highlight the cutting-edge research being conducted across all colleges, while engaging and educating others in all the unique research, scholarship and creative activities taking place in the field, in the lab and across all disciplines at FAU.

Here's a look at what Prusa said about her submission called Cosmic Web (for the Harvard Computers):

This domed painting with internal light, 60 x 60 x 10 inches, made of silverpoint and acrylic, names 14 women astronomers, like Henrietta Leavitt, who, "mapped the heavens," and contributed knowledge that changed our view of our universe. Bio-referencing forms, which are poetic forms that allude to biology, rim the center like embryos at the indifferent stages (neither male nor female) and coalesce to form a collaborative web of what is known. The mapping lines of light express desire to understand what we are made of and our location. This painting is offered as homage to the scientists who stand at the threshold of what is known while peering into the vastness of the unknown.

View all the winners and this year's judges, here.

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