Annularia stellata plant found in the Mazon River strata, Morris, Illinois. Collection Marie Angkuw
ESCONI member Andrew Young will be giving what is sure to be an interesting lecture at the Milwaukee Public Museum's "Lunch & Lecture" on May 10, 2016.
May 10, 2016 - Coal, Shale, and Ironstone: the Geology and Paleontology of Mazon Creek
Andrew Young, Visual Artist
Located in northeastern Illinois, Mazon Creek, is an incredible fossil array of associated Upper Carboniferous plants and animals. Considered to be among the world’s great Lagerstätten, or Mother Lodes, this site’s numerous and delicately preserved soft-bodied animals are rarely seen in the fossil record, and many species have been singularly described from the deposit. Magnificent plant impressions, many of them ferns (to some, the quintessential prehistoric floral form) are beautifully preserved in iron carbonate nodules. The importance of Mazon Creek to understanding the story of our planet, and specifically the Pennsylvanian Period, was realized by science only in the mid-nineteenth century. Considerable research has been done since then, perhaps providing the most comprehensive picture of life in the Late Paleozoic. Come hear the narrative of its geologic and biological history: how it came to be and what lived there.
Docent Tour - Third Planet exhibit, Carboniferous
Lunch & Lecture Schedule
Optional Docent Tour – 10:30 a.m., meet near the circular desk across from the Cafe
Lecture in Gromme Lecture Hall –11:30 a.m.
Optional buffet lunch in Garden Gallery – 12:30 p.m.
Read the Lunch & Lecture buffet menu
Lunch & Lecture Tickets
Cost: $20; $17 for members
Lecture Only: $5; FREE for members and students
Registration required - call (414) 278-2728 to register
Andrew Young at the Grand Canyon, 2014.
Andrew Young is a visual artist who studied biology, art history, and studio art at the University of California, Berkeley. His interest in science furthered his affinity for natural history which, combined with philosophy and art, eventually brought him to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he earned an M.F.A. in painting and drawing. Young’s work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions, often with accompanying workshops. Some of his projects have taken him to Italy, Germany, Ecuador, Hungary, and Pakistan, to name a few. In 2006, he received an invitation to join an expedition to Antarctica to study the wildlife and document studies of the earthquakes and ice movement in the region. A continued fascination with the human relationship to the natural world led him to curate an exhibition in 2011 entitled, Indexing the World: invention, abstraction and dissonance, the 2012 publication of a book on Mazon Creek fossils of Illinois, and a solo painting show with the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Young’s work is represented by several galleries and many of his paintings are in the permanent collections of museums nationwide.
andrewyoungart.com
