When Kelsey and I traveled to Vancouver to attend our first scientific conference, the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting, we had no clue what we were getting into. We were in search of paleontologists to include in our film and exhibition, but where to find them in the sea of geoscientists before us? With […]

When we visited GSA in Vancouver in the autumn of 2014,  we were a team of two artists and one paleontologist, all of whom were anxious to see how our collaborative project would be received. How would the scientific community respond to what we were trying to accomplish? Could we express the importance of this […]

How The Bearded Lady Project Came to Be I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. –Maya Angelou There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do. –Amy Poehler I hadn’t showered in three days. It was […]

My name is Ellen Currano. I’m the daughter of a math professor and a U Chicago alum. I hold a doctoral degree in geosciences and have been a professor for the last five years. All evidence to the contrary, I never have, and never will, consider myself an ivory tower academic, but I do take […]