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
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Public Radio: Intersections
Seeing Through the Lens of a Pencil: How Archaeologists Use the Art of Sketching to Better Visualize and Understand What They See
Aired Saturday, September 30, 2023Seeing Through the Lens of a Pencil: How Archaeologists Use the Art of Sketching to Better Visualize and Understand What They See The Conversation Show # 247 Talking about how drawing engages different parts of the brain and allows...
Phosphogeddon: Short-Term Solutions Often Turn Out to Have Long-Term Costs
Aired Saturday, September 23, 2023Phosphogeddon: Short-Term Solutions Often Turn Out to Have Long-Term Costs The Conversation Show # 246 Talking about how the world’s Phosphorus problem resembles the carbon dioxide, plastics, and groundwater problems. The potential...
A Smart Predator: White Sharks in the North Atlantic
Aired Saturday, September 16, 2023A Smart Predator: White Sharks in the North Atlantic Show #245 Talking about North Atlantic White Sharks, the largest predatory shark, and until recently, rare in the western North Atlantic. This predator is crucial in maintaining a...
Art Science Walks
September 8, 2024: Finding the “Big Thing”: Narrowing Your Focus
September 8, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – Finding the “Big Thing”: Narrowing Your Focus Location: Coles Pond Bog, East Dennis Description: In this fall walk we will learn how to focus on the “Big Things” in nature. We will use sighting tube, binoculars, sighting scopes,...
August 11, 2024: Far Away from It All: Finding Solitude in Nature
August 11, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – Far Away from It All: Finding Solitude in Nature Location: The Plashes Conservation Area, Dennis Port Description: A joint program of the daVinci Pursuit and the Dennis Conservation Land Trust (DLCT). The end of summer can sometimes be...
July 14, 2024: The Hues of Summer: An Exploration of Color
July 14, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm – The Hues of Summer: An Exploration of Color Location: Bush & Indian Lands Conservation Areas, South Dennis Desciption: A joint program of the daVinci Pursuit and the Dennis Conservation Land Trust (DLCT). Summer brings a new palette of...
Artist Scientist Collaboration
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daVinci Art Science Roundtable
June 14, 2024: Touching the Stars
Friday, June 14, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Touching the Stars daVinci Art Science Roundtable The daVinci art science roundtables are a facilitated monthly series of exploratory discussions for artists and scientists to talk about the culture of...
May 10, 2024: Beauty is Pain
Friday, May 10, 2024 1 to 2pm estdaVinci Art Science Roundtable - Beauty is Pain daVinci Art Science Roundtable The daVinci art science roundtables are a facilitated monthly series of exploratory discussions for artists and scientists to talk about the culture of...
March 8, 2024: The Lunar Codex: Artists, Authors, Filmmakers, and Musicians Dream
Friday, March 8, 2024 1 to 2pm est daVinci Art Science Roundtable - The Lunar Codex: Artists, Authors, Filmmakers, and Musicians Dream daVinci Art Science Roundtable The daVinci art science roundtables are a facilitated monthly series of exploratory discussions for...
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