Artist Josh Simpson and Astronaut Cady Coleman Discuss Science, Art, and Space Exploration

Astronaut Cady Coleman, a veteran of two shuttle missions and a six-month Space Station expedition, is the author of Sharing Space. A popular speaker and media advisor, she coached Sandra Bullock from the ISS for her role in Gravity and is featured in the Sundance-premiering documentary Space: The Longest Goodbye.
Inspired by the story of Apollo astronauts seeing the earth "hanging like a blue marble in space." Josh Simpson began creating his own fanciful marble-sized planets in the mid-1970s. This early artistic exploration, combined with his intense interest in physics, cosmology, astronomical phenomena, and all things mechanical, inform and inspire his work to this day. Josh Simpson is a contemporary glass artist who uses old techniques. Each planet is hand shaped with wooden blocks and other traditional tools at his Western Massachusetts studio.

Note: This lecture will not be recorded.