Invitation from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators – Oregon Group President:
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Hello all, and apologies for the late start on getting the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators – Oregon Group gathered this year. 

(I am sending this to a few folks who might be interested but aren’t current GNSI Oregon members. Please feel free to forward this to others, as this is an open meeting! And if you’re a non-member and you’d rather not be contacted with these sorts of activities, please let me know via return e-mail.)

We have our first activity of the year scheduled now thanks to Kris Kirkeby, and we’ll get a final schedule out later, but it’ll look something like this:

A Day at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, Eugene

April 23, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

We have booked a meeting room inside the museum, so that will be our headquarters for the day

The meeting is free for members / $5 for non-members

Everybody needs to pay the museum entrance fee at the door, which is $5 / $3 seniors / Free with UO student ID

If you plan to attend, please let me (Nora – nora@frii.com) know by April 18. We need to head-count for the museum and for potential carpooling.

10 – 10:30 a.m. – Introductions and portfolio sharing. This is informal – don’t stress!! We’ll do a quick around-the-room introduction and show-and-tell. Bring a few of your current pieces. If you don’t want to show your work right now, no worries – not necessary! Folks can wander around and take a look at each other’s work and chat for a few minutes.

10:30 – noon – Study / sketch butterflies from Kris’s collection. Bring sketchbooks, drawing tools, measurement tools, magnification, etc. (It is OK to bring color media into the museum; obviously nothing too messy or noxious. If you have concerns about your media, let me know and we can find out if it’s OK. Small watercolor sets, colored pencils, watercolor colored pencils plus containers and paper towels all are fine.)

Noon – 1 p.m. – Lunch on campus (details TBA, but brown-bag and continued networking/portfolio sharing will probably be the best option)

1 – 2 p.m. – Tour the museum, with commentary by Kris, who will also talk about her science illustration work we will see at the museum, and the process of working with the archeology/paleo staff there. This will be an opportunity to learn about securing actual paying work with actual scientists!

2 – 3:30 p.m. – Continue to work with butterflies. 

3:30 – 4 p.m. – Plan next meeting and future activities. The tentative plan is for a June meeting in Portland, hopefully to include some technique-boutique stuff. Also, perhaps discuss carpooling to annual GNSI meeting in July in California.

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Great work today, everyone!

We had 22 visitors who ranged from specific areas of the sciences (physics, math, & biology, for example), Architecture & Allied Arts programs, the Museum of Natural & Cultural History, and many other interested parties.

Each of them spoke to us with high regard about your enthusiasm & energy, knowledge, and creativity.

We look forward to celebrating your achievements with you tonight at Yogurt Extreme.  We’ll be at the 13th Avenue location around 6:15pm.

Also, for those of you who said you have interest, start thinking about the Undergraduate Research Symposium (Info at: http://undergradsymposium.uoregon.edu/). Robert and I would like to work with those of you interested to propose a symposium tabling session similar to what we did today.

Kudos!
Julie and Robert

 

Hi all,

Just a note that Robert & I are really looking forward to tomorrow — and hope that you are too! We see how you’ve been progressing on your blogs since yesterday, and it’s all looking great. Keep going.

We’ve heard from folks in Landscape Architecture, the art museum, some of our guest presenters, faculty in Arts & Administration, and others who are planning to stop in and see your great work. They are very excited to see what you have created.  This will be fun!

And yes, I had confirmation this morning that the tables should be there so we should be able to arrange the room how we would like.  Please come as early as you are able to help set up.  We can move chairs to the hallway (within reason) and so forth to set the room up as needed.

A few scheduling reminders:

• Thursday (tomorrow):  Set up and check in from about 9:30-10:15a.m. — Final project complete and professionalized
  Guests arrive between 10:20-11:35.  — Share your work & have fun talking to engaged members of campus
  Take down/Wrap up 11:35-11:50 — Thanks for a good term.  Goodbye for now & where might this project go next?
  Yogurt Extreme on 13th (by Duckstore) 6:15p.m. — Social hour
• Monday, March 14 — Final paper (Report 5) due by 5pm.  Drop off at one of our offices or direct email.
• Tuesday, March 15 —  Final Journal entry due: What did you learn about your project through the final display? What are your project’s strengths at this point? Weaknesses? What are opportunities you can build on if you would continue with this project? What may be threatening to or risking the best outcomes for the project?
• Wednesday, March 16 — Donuts & Puppy time!

See you tomorrow.

-Julie and Robert

All,

Hi, know there is a bit of confusion for some of you about what should your project site look like.   So for your project site let’s do the following so it reflects more of a focus on your research project and Creative Display and not focus so much on the Journal as your front page.

(If you have done this already you can ignore this email!).

First create an Introduction page and a Journal page by:

1.  Going into your site Dashboard.
2.  Click on Pages and Add New.
3.  Add an Introduction page and publish this.
4.  Add a Journal page and publish this.

Now you need to reset the site so the Introduction Page is your front/home page and the Journal Page is where all your Journal entries go.  Do this by:

1.  Going into your site Dashboard.
2.  Locate the Settings area.
3.  Click on Reading.
4.  Find the top “Front page displays” area.
5.  Click on the option for “A static page (select below)”
6.  For “Front page:” select in the drop down options your Introduction page.
7.  For the “Posts page:” select in the drop down options your Journal page.
8.  Save Changes. (scroll down to the bottom for the “Save Changes” button)

Now your site’s home page will be the Introduction page so it is now VERY important to put on this Introduction page some information about your project.  You should have from our previous work session on that hand out we all went through step-by-step an Introduction paragraph, which you can add.  Also don’t forget pictures of your Creative Display and research here too!

And any Journal postings you add will automatically go to the Journal page.

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For working with the Pages and Menu see this tutorial video:

http://help.edublogs.org/custom-menu/

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Any questions let me know, and also let me know if you want to meet to go over any of this.

Best,

Robert