The daVinci Pursuit
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Public Radio: Intersections
Little Successes Can Change Everything: Building Solutions for Our Carbon Future – Episode 2
Aired Saturday, March 25, 2023Little Successes Can Change Everything: Building Solutions for Our Carbon Future – Episode 2 Show #220 Talking about large-scale drivers of carbon at the very highest level of concern for the survival of life on the planet. We will...
Art Science Walks
June 25th: Journaling with Watercolors
Journaling with Watercolors June 25th: Journaling with Watercolors Join us for a journaling walk on Sunday, June 25, 2023 from 1 to 2:30 pm est. The Dennis Conservation Land Trust will team up with the daVinci Pursuit to host its fifth art and science walk in our new...
daVinci Art Science Roundtable
What Are The Different Types of Art Science Collaboration?
Friday, March 31, 2023 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - What Are The Different Types of Art Science Collaboration? daVinci Art Science Roundtable - In-Person Version Members of the daVinci Art Science Roundtable will be having a conversation about the...
Visual Thinking – Part 2
Friday, March 10, 2023 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Visual Thinking - Part 2 daVinci Art Science Roundtable - On-Line Version Members of the daVinci Art Science Roundtable will be having a conversation about the book "Visual Thinking" by Temple...
Artist Scientist Collaboration
daVinci ArtPorts
daVinci ArtPorts daVinci ArtPorts The need for a flexible, simple, and adaptable infrastructure for the arts exists in most communities. daVinci ArtPorts are designed as universal, in-ground, anchoring platforms for “pop-up” works of art, providing an innovative...
Our Work
In 2009, daVinci Pursuit founder, Mark Kesling, coined the phrase “A Museum Without Walls” to describe his vision for providing the community firsthand experiences with science and art. The vision he created sought to lower typical barriers to learning, by taking science and art to where people live and work, using informal educational techniques to excite and stimulate curiosity, providing experiences to those underserved by current institutions. The daVinci Pursuit provides a community platform, grounded in solid science and creative thought. In the years, since our founding, the DaVinci Pursuit’s vision required us to look beyond the barriers and challenges our communities faced by utilizing the best practices from informal education, including its installations and programs, in order to provide a greater understanding of science and art.
Conversations
Conversations serve as an incubator for creative and entrepreneurial engagement that allow individuals to participate in the creative economy and narratives of success. Individuals from differing socio-economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds find themselves excluded from the benefits of the creative economy and become the consumers of the creative work produced by others with greater advantage and access. Our approach widens and deepens the involvement of underserved adult populations, by providing the skills needed to help the community and individuals reframe the creative process thereby enabling pathways between community activity and the cultural and creative economy.
Interpretation
Interpretive experiences across different contexts and settings transform the perceptions of the learner, facilitate conceptual understanding, yield emotional engagement, and nurture the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes. In educational settings learning experiences are ideally challenging, interesting, rich, engaging, meaningful, and appropriate to learner needs.
Installations
Interactive installations are a way of activating a physical space through technology, movement, light, and sound that responds to the passerby. When designed correctly, these installations move people from passive audiences to engaged active participants. Installations inspire people to be more curious about the natural and built world around them, and to construct the foundations for more self-discovery and future learning.
Provocations
“Different stories; different arts and sciences; one history connecting us all.” We utilize storytelling as a catalyst for learning about art and science. Our use of the theatrical arts broadens audience outreach as well as develop new audiences. We create long-form performances (30 to 60 minutes in length), short-form performances (7-10 minutes), and Free-form Performances (Improvised) depending on the venue and needs of the audience.
Collaborations
The daVinci Pursuit cooperates with other community non-profits dedicated to creating a stronger sense of place in our neighborhoods and communities. The issues specifically confronting lower-income communities are complex and require creative and innovative solutions. The daVinci Pursuit catalyzes individuals in each neighborhood to create innovative visions that mobilize other neighbors, while attracting larger community-wide investment, and providing a framework for creative solutions. By forging creative partnerships between artists, scientists, and communities the daVinci Pursuit uses the arts and sciences as a means of developing self-efficacy and self-esteem.
Consulting
Our years of leadership in the fields of museum and informal education, allows us to provide innovative ideas, practical solutions, and dynamic installations and programs. The daVinci Pursuit provides consulting services in education and exhibit design, project management, fund development, evaluation, board development, and strategic planning.