Beehavior Art Exhibit

Western Wyoming Community College will host an art exhibition inspired by bees from March 2^nd, to April 23^rd, 2018 with a gallery talk by Ashley Hope Carlisle April 26^th at 12:30PM, in the art gallery.

Ashley Hope Carlisle, Associate Professor of Art in Sculpture at UW and Dr. Michael Dillon, Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology & Physiology and Program in Ecology at UW have converged to create works encompassing bees and your senses.  This exhibition is part of a National Science Foundation grant supporting research which explores how bumblebees are able to thrive everywhere from lowland California to alpine Oregon. The grant, "Adaptation Across Latitude and Altitude: Genomics, Morphology, and Physiology of Montane Bumble Bees” is a collaboration with Jeffrey D. Lozier from the University of Alabama, and James P. Strange from the University of Utah.