About
Mission and vision
Empowering artists and inspiring scientists; empowering scientists and inspiring artists. Shared.Futures is an ArtScience collaborative where we bring together local scientists and artists. Together, we aim to communicate scientific perspectives through artistic mediums to showcase what our shared futures can look like.
This collaborative seeks to inspire future generations of leaders who are excited to collaborate across traditional disciplinary boundaries. We hope these current and future leaders will help answer the call for creative and technical approaches to tackle grand challenges such as climate change. Rather than focus on the future in a catastrophizing way, the scientists and artists of Shared.Futures acknowledge the existing and potential challenges and simultaneously also offer ideas and visions for a hopeful future.
The Shared.Futures ArtScience Fellowship Program
The Shared.Futures ArtScience Fellowship Program is a five-month workshop. Fellows are paired in artist-scientist teams and work collaboratively to create sci-art. The workshop culminates in a final ArtScience exhibit at Explora Museum in Albuquerque, NM.
From January through May, fellows meet regularly to build skills in science communication, storytelling, DEI training, and more. During this time, the artist-scientist pairs also craft their ArtScience piece with mentorship and support from the Shared.Futures collective. ArtScience teams will also create an interactive activity to engage youth in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics). The program runs annually.
About our fellows: Shared.Futures Fellows are local artists and research scientists who live in the Albuquerque metro area who are interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and transformative futures. Fellows receive a stipend and are reimbursed for material costs.
Have any questions? Let us know at organizers@sharedfutures.gallery!
Join us at our next public event!
2025 Shared.Futures Program Applicants Meet and Greet at Draft & Table in UNM Student Union Building (SUB), Tuesday October 1, 5:00 - 6:30 pm. Any interested scientists & artists are invited to join us to learn more about the organizational structure of our program and potentially meet your artist/scientist partner for the upcoming ArtScience program.
Meet a Scientist and Artist at Explora Museum in Albuquerque NM: April 5, 2025, 10am-1pm. Talk to the 2025 ArtScience Fellows about their art and research. Fun for all ages!
Adult Night at Explora Museum in Albuquerque NM: Friday, April 18, 2025 . Meet the 2025 ArtScience Fellows and view the final ArtScience exhibit.
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Features
UNM team joins art and science at Explora event in the UNM Newsroom
Shared.Futures is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF Grant #2115169) as part of the Intermountain West Transformation Network.