For the month of March 2019, the work of 25 Sheridan Art Fundamentals students is on display at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory in Cambridge, Ontario.
Students created arthropods – invertebrate animals like insects, arachnids, myriapods and crustaceans – for a class assignment titled Don’t Bug Me: Insects, Bugs and Entomology in 3D Design. They were only able to use basic materials like cardboard, paper, glue and wire. Conservatory curator Adrienne Brewster heard about the sculptures and visited Trafalgar Campus to make a selection to appear on public display.
Brewster was impressed with the careful considerations students made in their work to ensure details and form were captured. Hosting art at the Conservatory aligns with its mandate to foster the public’s appreciation for insects. She says: “Insects inspire people all the time in their artistic endeavours. We try to represent them not just in nature and biology but in how they’re perceived by people in all facets of life.”
For more details on this unique opportunity for the Art Fundamentals students, check out the story on Sheridan’s Curiosities blog. You can catch the exhibit at the Conservatory until March 31.
Pictured above (left to right, clockwise): The display of student work at the Conservatory, emperor moth by Kirsten MacDougall, Namib Desert beetle by Maxine Kryzaniwsky.