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Take an audio tour of a 2022-23 exhibition at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum! Listen to artist Lee Boot chat about his show "Lee Boot: Abstracts & Artifacts," on view at The Peale from November 2022-January 2023. You can see videos and interact with more media files using Smartify, the ultimate cultural travel app! Includes 21 narrated stops.
Lee Boot (00:00): Now you should be looking at a very large painting made of a bunch of smaller canvases, and it's called Teen Brains. And this is a very important piece of work in my career because this is the painting that I did to go on a big poster and to show at a big convention of neuroscientists in New Orleans. It was the 1997 Society for Neuroscience Convention. It's, it's kind of a long story, but I'm just gonna abbreviate here. I was teaching high school. I thought my students needed to know more about their brains because here we're asking them to use these organs in their heads without knowing much about them. And so a neuroscientist I was working with, I kind of pitched to him I would love to be able to make television, like my crazy video art that my students like about brains.
(00:57): And he said, great, let's write an abstract together and let's send it to the Society for Neuroscience and see if they'll accept it. And then you can go to New Orleans and you can pitch this to like the National Institutes of Health. And I thought that's a long shot if I ever heard one. But sure enough, they accepted the abstract. John Shield, the neuroscientist I'm talking about, couldn't make it. He got snowed in in Indiana. So there it was there I was at the Society for Neuroscience Convention in New Orleans in 1997. It was 24,999 neuroscientists and me crazy. This painting was the image I put on a big poster along with a description of how I would make television to teach teenagers about their brain. And I developed a relationship there with a program director from the National Institute of Health. Her name was Dr. Catherine Sasek. She was a huge supporter of mine. And this really launched my, what most people would consider to be my research career.
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By The PealeTake an audio tour of a 2022-23 exhibition at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum! Listen to artist Lee Boot chat about his show "Lee Boot: Abstracts & Artifacts," on view at The Peale from November 2022-January 2023. You can see videos and interact with more media files using Smartify, the ultimate cultural travel app! Includes 21 narrated stops.
Lee Boot (00:00): Now you should be looking at a very large painting made of a bunch of smaller canvases, and it's called Teen Brains. And this is a very important piece of work in my career because this is the painting that I did to go on a big poster and to show at a big convention of neuroscientists in New Orleans. It was the 1997 Society for Neuroscience Convention. It's, it's kind of a long story, but I'm just gonna abbreviate here. I was teaching high school. I thought my students needed to know more about their brains because here we're asking them to use these organs in their heads without knowing much about them. And so a neuroscientist I was working with, I kind of pitched to him I would love to be able to make television, like my crazy video art that my students like about brains.
(00:57): And he said, great, let's write an abstract together and let's send it to the Society for Neuroscience and see if they'll accept it. And then you can go to New Orleans and you can pitch this to like the National Institutes of Health. And I thought that's a long shot if I ever heard one. But sure enough, they accepted the abstract. John Shield, the neuroscientist I'm talking about, couldn't make it. He got snowed in in Indiana. So there it was there I was at the Society for Neuroscience Convention in New Orleans in 1997. It was 24,999 neuroscientists and me crazy. This painting was the image I put on a big poster along with a description of how I would make television to teach teenagers about their brain. And I developed a relationship there with a program director from the National Institute of Health. Her name was Dr. Catherine Sasek. She was a huge supporter of mine. And this really launched my, what most people would consider to be my research career.