Lesley Wright

Captured Creatures - an interdisciplinary exhibition seminar part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Curricular Projects
"Captured Creatures" is a model of an interdisciplinary seminar that utilizes one or more campus collections as the catalyst for both academic and curatorial learning. Using a thematic approach and selected works of art and material culture, students explore a body of knowledge, and use it to curate an exhibition. In this case, the subject was animals and the focus collection was the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College Art Collection. Students learned different disciplinary ways of seeing, brought their training to share with the class through co-teaching, investigated animals through various disciplinary lenses, and created a multidisciplinary exhibition.

Lesley Wright part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Participant Pages
Biographical profile page of Lesley Wright, Director of the Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College, detailing her expertise in art curation, interdisciplinary projects integrating art and science, museum studies pedagogy, and her development of the "Captured Creatures" seminar exploring animal representations in art through an Animal Studies lens.

Team Profile: Grinnell College part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Participant Pages
Participant page detailing Grinnell College's interdisciplinary team—Vicki Bentley-Condit (Anthropology), Jackie Brown (Biology), and Lesley Wright (Art/Faulconer Gallery)—highlighting their collaborative curriculum development at the intersection of art and biology, including joint courses, student exhibitions, and long-term exhibition planning centered on animal studies, scientific illustration, and human-animal relationships.