Effective communication is a key component of SNRE curriculum, and a major reason for the opening of the first SNRE art gallery. Sara Adlerstein is a research scientist at SNRE, artist and curator for the new Art & Environment Gallery. She hopes that this new mode of communication will resonate with the students and professors, showing them that graphs and charts are not the only modes of viable visual communication.

You can hear her full remarks in the Artpod story conducted by Michigan Radio (see link below).

The gallery opens Thursday, Feb. 16,  at 4 p.m. The first featured artist is Leslie Sobel, who will display her "Watershed moments" series. The work was inspired by vintage maps of the Mississippi River as well as current satellite images.

• Heritage Newspapers' Joyce Ervin also spoke with Sobel about the gallery opening: http://www.heritage.com/articles/2012/02/13/life/doc4f399ccef08298951104...
• Hear the Michigan Radio podcast by Jennifer Guerra
• Dr. Alderstein Faculty profile
• Leslie Sobel's Blog