For information on purchasing one of the exhibited pieces of artwork, click HERE.

Please plan to attend our first art opening!  Light refreshments will be served.

The “Textured Birds” exhibit features works by 20 students from the Tualatin Valley Junior Academy in Hillsboro, Oregon, where the BirdSleuth curriculum has played a major role in science classes for 15 years. The bird subjects are focal species currently under study by Cornell Lab scientists. Amazingly lifelike and scientifically accurate, these paintings invite the viewer to study color, nuance, and each artist’s interpretive technique. 

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Education Department’s projects are varied and far-reaching. This art exhibition highlights BirdSleuth, an inquiry-based science curriculum designed to build critical thinking skills plus enthusiasm for birds and the outdoors among middle-school students. 

As one student said, "The experience was very cool. I had never heard of the Superb Starling until I started working on this project. I think it is a beautiful bird and very unique. Now I care about birds and actually notice them!" Another seventh-grade student, Kiana, says, "When I found out scientists were studying these birds, I wondered what they did all the way over in New York. I would love to go and study birds with them."

“Textured Birds” will remain on exhibit through December 15. 

To see photographs of the paintings and of students during the creative process, visit the class's website HERE.