Register

Women Making STEAM: Carol Prusa (Online-Zoom)

Science & Engineering in the Art of Carol Prusa

Women Making STEAM invites women/women-identifying professionals to share their impacts and research contributions in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, or Math (STEAM).

Artist Carol Prusa intertwines art, science and engineering to create symbolically charged work responding to liminal locations, using graphite pours and silverpoint drawing in a dance between the known and unknown, offering insight into the mystery of our existence while embracing the magnitude of the universe with the lawlessness of imagination to distill the sacred. As Einstein stated, “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” This talk will discuss the Harvard Computers, women who radically informed us of our place and provided the foundation to how we understand our universe, expressed through art. As well, the materials and methods needed to engineer this work, including the work resulting from witnessing three total solar eclipses.

Image credit: Many Moons, Carol Prusa. Five Plexiglas circles, cradled, with silverpoint, graphite, acrylic paintings – sizes range from 60” to 30” diameter – they are based on my observation of the total solar eclipse in both Nebraska (2017) and Chile (2019)

Carol Prusa is known for her meticulous silverpoint technique combined with contemporary strategies. In the 2015 catalogue essay for the National Gallery exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, Weber called Carol Prusa “one of the most innovative artists working in metalpoint today.” Her work is included in excellent public and private collections, including the Perez Art Museum (Miami), The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Telfair Art Museum (Savannah), the Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga) and the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection. Prusa is represented by Bluerider Gallery –Taipei/London/Shanghai, and Bernice Steinbaum - Miami, Florida, among others. Prusa had a solo exhibition at the Boca Museum in 2019 and exhibited in the 2015 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters (NYC), invited by Judy Pfaff and awarded a purchase prize. She did a three-month fully funded residency at the prestigious Kohler Artist in Industry among other artist residencies, including the Golden Foundation. Currently she has an exhibition, “Strange Attractors” in Shanghai, China and is in the 2024 Florida. 

This program is made possible by the Broward Public Library Foundation. 

Upcoming Events