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Nature, Environment, Science & Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts is a network of faculty, students, centers, and campus units that combine artistic practice and scientific research to explore our common and disparate ways of observing, recording, experimenting, and knowing. A series of cross-campus initiatives allow students to directly engage with faculty mentors and inspire alternate modes of communicating with the larger public. Check out this page for our upcoming events!

SHARED ATMOSPHERES

🎟️ Free & open to all.

THREE EVENTS!

May 28th | 6 - 8 pm @ Patagonia Boulder

July 17th | 6 - 9:30 pm @ Central Park Bandshell

July 18th | 8 - 2 pm @ Central Park Bandshell

Join NEST Studio for the Arts for Shared Atmospheres. Shared Atmospheres is a collaborative project by artist and scientist Dr. Madison Sankovitz and artist Amy Hoagland that brings decommissioned ice cores out of the lab and into public space. The event will feature melting ice cores from the NSF Ice Core Facility, paired with large-scale projections of magnified ice that reveal the intricate structures of this ancient frozen archive of time. Come witness ancient ice from Antarctica and Greenland melt, releasing air trapped in bubbles for ages.

As the ice slowly melts, visitors will be invited to participate in a 'time capsule' activity, contributing drawings or written reflections about their experiences with the ice cores and their hopes for our collective climate future.

By combining art and science, the project transforms scientific specimens into a shared, sensory experience.

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Shared Atmospheres is generously funded by the City of Boulder’s Experiments in Public Art program.

CAMPUS LIFE: 150 Years of Human and More-Than-Human Relationships at CU Boulder Exhibition

OPENING RECEPTION AND TREE WALK

April 22, 2026 | 3:30 - 5:30 PM

, 2200 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80309

🎟️ Free & open to all.

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Campus Lifeexplores the shared history of humans and more-than-human inhabitants over the 150 years of CU Boulder, documenting their evolving relationship. The works exhibited illustrate how different forms of life coexist on campus through a diverse collection of visual media including historical maps, photographs, original watercolors and modern cartography that tracks current and past human-wildlife interactions.

As part of the exhibition, the curators are collecting oral stories from peoples' experiences with the more-than-human on and around campus..

Campus Lifeis a collaboration withNEST Studio for the Arts,theMuseum of Natural HistoryandFacilities Management.

The exhibition is on view until December 2026. Please check theԹ for any exceptions.

This project was partially funded through a grant from the 150th Initiative Fund.