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Ken Stern

ARTIST AND SCIENTIST COLLABORATE, FINDING BEAUTY ENLARGES TRUTHS – Artist Natalie Niblack spent 14 months creating her exhibit, "66 Birds/3 Degrees." She and John Bower, an ornithology professor at Western Washington University, spoke to a full room at MoNA's second floor gallery Saturday, discussing "Inside an Artist & Scientist Collaboration: '66 Birds/3 Degrees.'" The Museum of Northwest Art exhibition, "Surge: Mapping Transition, Displacement and Agency in Times of Climate Change," closed Sunday, Jan. 21.