Dear Colleagues, Transmitting Science is offering a new course that might be of interest for people at this list: THE ART OF SCIENCE: SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION. Place: Sabadell, Barcelona (Spain). Dates: November 20th-24th, 2017, Barcelona (Spain). Instructor: Julianne Snider (Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, USA). Scientific illustration blends the discipline and creativity of science and art to produce images that serve and communicate science. This course is designed to help scientists, science communicators, artists, and adults interested in natural history develop the observation skills and drawing skills they need to record, distill, and visually communicate observations made of natural history objects and organisms. Traditional scientific illustration techniques as well as the history, significance, status, and future directions of scientific illustration will be explored in this hands-on studio-style course. Objectives: * Develop and improve scientific observational and visual communication * Recognize and transform observable scientific information into scientifically accurate illustrations for use in publications and presentations. * Understand and appreciate the history and function of scientific illustration as a medium for disseminating scientific knowledge and concepts. * Learn and practice a variety of drawing and illustration techniques that can be used in the field, the laboratory, and for fun. More information: http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/drawing-and-communication/art-science-scientific-illustration/ With best regards Sole Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD. Scientific Director Transmitting Science http://www.transmittingscience.org This message and attached files are confidential. They contain reserved information that cannot be shared. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please delete it from your system and inform the sender by forwarding to their e-mail address; please do not copy the message or reveal its content to any third party. Your e-mail address, along with your personal data, is in a file owned by Transmitting Science S.L., whose purpose is to keep in contact with you. You may exercise your rights to access, rectify, cancel, oppose and revoke your personal data by sending a written request with a photocopy of your national identity document or passport or any other valid identification document, as per the LOPD, to Transmitting Science S.L. at the following address: Calle Gardenia, 2 - Urb. Can Claramunt, 08784 Piera (Barcelona), Spain; or to the following e-mail address: [log in to unmask] Moreover, it is your responsibility to verify that this message and its attached files do not contain viruses and, if they do, to delete them.