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
March 25, 2024: Inside Fruit: Painting From the Inside
Inside Fruit: Painting from the Inside Learn To Create Beautiful Watercolor Paintings All Skill Levels Welcome Monday, March 25th, 6:30 - 7:30 pm EST $25/class
Triptychs: Creating in Threes February 2024
During our first watercolor workshop of 2024, we will learn to use the idea of triptychs, a painting made up of three sections.Triptychs: Creating in Threes Learn To Create Beautiful Watercolor Paintings All Skill Levels Welcome Monday, February 26th, 6:30 - 7:30 pm...
Public Radio: Intersections
Indigenous Visions: Native American Glass Artists Create
Aired Saturday, October 21, 2023Indigenous Visions: Native American Glass Artists Create Show #250 Talking about the art and science of working in glass to represent themes from indigenous cultures while combining the techniques of glass making with traditional art...
Clusters, Nebulae, and Galaxies, Oh My! Photographing the Night Sky
Aired Saturday, October 14, 2023Clusters, Nebulae, and Galaxies, Oh My! Photographing the Night Sky Show #248 Talking about the deep-sky objects you can capture with simple photographic techniques. We will explore the science of the objects as well as the equipment we...
Beyond What the Eye Can See: Deep Sky, Star Trails, Moons, and Galaxies
Aired Saturday, October 7, 2023Beyond What the Eye Can See: Deep Sky, Star Trails, Moons, and Galaxies Show #248 Talking about star trail shooting. Using modern cameras to shoot beyond what the eye can see including the Orion Nebula and Andromeda Galaxy and how anyone...
Art Science Walks
October 13, 2024: Weird, Spooky, and Wild Halloween: The Spirits of Fall
October 13, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – Weird, Spooky, and Wild Halloween: The Spirits of Fall Location: Old Fort Field, Dennis Village Description: At this time of year, things turn spooky. We think of the spirits that inhabit our natural world and the stories we have passed...
October 6, 2024: What’s in Your Pocket?
October 6, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – What’s in Your Pocket? Location: Eagle Pond, Cotuit Description: When we are out for a leisurely walk are there some artistic tools and supplies, we should be carrying with us? In this art science walk you will learn about ways to...
September 21, 2024: Something’s Fishy
September 21, 2024, 1 - 3:00 pm – Something’s Fishy Location: Aselton Park, Hyannis Description: Drop by our Rising Waters/Fish Flags art installation on a beautiful fall day. In this two-hour drop-in/drop-by event, artists will be doing hands-on art stations as we...
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daVinci Art Science Roundtable
September 13, 2024: Engaging Artists in Science
Friday, September 13, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Engaging Artists in 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...
August 9, 2024: Gaia: An Updated Look at the Evolution of Life and the Earth
Friday, August 9, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Gaia: An Updated Look at the Evolution of Life and the Earth daVinci Art Science Roundtable The daVinci art science roundtables are a facilitated monthly series of exploratory discussions for artists...
July 12, 2024: Solving Complex Challenges Through Art and Science
Friday, July 12, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Solving Complex Challenges Through Art and Science 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