The daVinci Pursuit
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Our Work
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.
Collaboration of Over 500 Artists and Scientists
We work with local artists and scientists to create true collaborations where science and art are viewed through a new lens that uses the arts as a gateway to science learning.
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Communicate
Create Experiences
Discover and Support
Eliminate Barriers
Encourage Learning
Engage Community
Evaluate and learn
Inspire Individuals
Utilize Artists, Scientists, and Educators
Featured Programs
Classes & Workshops
A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 3
A Guide to Sketching in the Field: Examples from a Study of Wildfire Robin Lee Carlson A sketchbook is a matchless tool for investigating the world. Sketchbooks have been my constant companions on walks, hikes, rambles, and research throughout my life. They are how I...
A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 2
A Guide to Sketching in the Field: Examples from a Study of Wildfire Robin Lee Carlson A sketchbook is a matchless tool for investigating the world. Sketchbooks have been my constant companions on walks, hikes, rambles, and research throughout my life. They are how I...
A Guide to Sketching in the Field with Robin Carlson Part 1
A Guide to Sketching in the Field: Examples from a Study of Wildfire Robin Lee Carlson A sketchbook is a matchless tool for investigating the world. Sketchbooks have been my constant companions on walks, hikes, rambles, and research throughout my life. They are how I...
Public Radio: Intersections
Terroir: Nature or Voodoo?
Aired Saturday, November 11, 2023Terroir: Nature or Voodoo?Show #253 Talking about the French notion of terroir has no equivalent word in English and requires the grower to consider all the natural variables that affect the growing of grapes. From the early monks in...
Keeping Focused: It’s Not the Wand It’s the Wizard
Aired Saturday, November 4, 2023Keeping Focused: It’s Not the Wand It’s the Wizard Show #252 Lisa is primarily an entertainment/beauty retoucher. The key to Lisa’s success is to focus on what matters most to clients and know how to fix issues quickly. Her focus is on...
Leonardo DaVinci the First Skull Base Radiologist
Aired Saturday, October 28, 2023Leonardo DaVinci the First Skull Base Radiologist Show #251 Talking about my guest’s special interest in head, neck, and skull base imaging including a deep interest in Leonardo DaVinci. My guest became interested as a result of a...
Art Science Walks
December 8, 2024: Memories: Recording the Year through Artistic Expression
December 8, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – Memories: Recording the Year through Artistic Expression Location: Not Enough Acres Farm, East Dennis Description: As we near the holidays we reminisce about the past. Our memories good and bad flood our thoughts. What are the ways we...
November 10, 2024: Bringing Nature Home: Harvesting through Art
November 10, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – Bringing Nature Home: Harvesting through Art Location: Fresh Pond South, South Dennis Description: When you think of this time of year, the thought of harvest and bounty come to mind. In this fall walk we will explore the many ways in...
November 3, 2024: Shadows
November 3, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – Shadows Location: Pogorelc Sanctuary, W. Barnstable Description: As we move into the month of shorter days and longer nights, shadows become a predominant feature of the landscape. We will go on a shadow walk and learn both the science...
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...
daVinci Art Science Roundtable
December 13, 2024: What is Wrong with Science?
Friday, December 13, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - What is Wrong with Science? daVinci Art Science Roundtable The daVinci art science roundtables are a facilitated monthly series of exploratory discussions for artists and scientists to talk about...
November 8, 2024: Play as a Spark for Scientific Inquiry
Friday, November 8, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Play as a Spark for Scientific Inquiry daVinci Art Science Roundtable The daVinci art science roundtables are a facilitated monthly series of exploratory discussions for artists and scientists to...
October 11, 2024: Engaging Scientists Through the Art of Poetry
Friday, October 11, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Engaging Scientists Through the Art of Poetry daVinci Art Science Roundtable The daVinci art science roundtables are a facilitated monthly series of exploratory discussions for artists and...
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.
Reach Us
Address
59 Mian St Unit 6-2
Dennis, MA 02638
United States
Contact
davinci@thedavincipursuit.com