55th Anniversary Juried Member's Exhibit - 2023

Art in this category is created in the tradition of tightly rendered, descriptive illustrations that form the backbone of science illustration. Traditional techniques including line drawing, stipple, watercolor, scratchboard, colored pencil, carbon dust, as well as digital techniques such as digital painting, digital sculpting, rendering, and animation are all included. These works are united in that they are made for journals, textbooks, educational resources and institutions, where audiences expect to be taught and to learn.

The Broader Visual SciComm Category recognizes works that still utilize many of the same tools that traditional science illustration employs: a deep understanding of the science at hand, a keen awareness of how people process visual information, highly refined visual arts skills, and a desire to educate and inform on a particular topic. But broader visual scicomm allows for more concept-driven work that attempts to evoke reactions in viewers using tricks more often employed in fine art: surprise, disgust, awe, fear, humor. Rather than being purely descriptive or didactic, it is often wrapped up with a call to action or designed to elicit an emotion. Our hope is that the addition of this new category will make the exhibition more inclusive of the diverse interests and specialties of our membership.