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Margaret Macnamara

Associate Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

Margaret (Peggy) Macnamara, Adjunct Associate Professor, Visual Communication Design (1996). BA, 1969, Manhattanville College, NY; MA, 1970, University of Chicago. Exhibitions: Elmhurst Museum; Packer Schopf Gallery, Peggy Notebart Museum, Chicago Botanical Gardens, Chicago; Lake County Discovery Museum. Publications (books): Painting Wildlife in Watercolor (2003); Illinois Insects (2005); Architecture by Birds and Insects (2008); The Art of Migration (2013). Collections:  Field Museum, Chicago; New York State Museum, Albany; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI; Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL. Awards: Artist in residence, Associate of the Zoology Department, Field Museum.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This class will begin with a demonstration on traditional drawing techniques used to illustrate scientific material. Students will develop pencil and ink renderings as well as watercolor illustrations of animal, plant and insect species. Work will also include relevant habitat and scale information. Each Class will include a lecture and /or visit behind the scenes to a lab at the Field Museum. Working scientists will expose the students to common collection methods as well as specimen preparation such as bird and mammal taxidermy. Course work will be described at the beginning of each class. Midterm critiques, small groups of 5, will determine and promote individual projects to be presented in the Final Critiques.

Class Number

1408

Credits

3

Description

This class will begin with a demonstration on traditional drawing techniques used to illustrate scientific material. Students will develop pencil and ink renderings as well as watercolor illustrations of animal, plant and insect species. Work will also include relevant habitat and scale information. Each Class will include a lecture and /or visit behind the scenes to a lab at the Field Museum. Working scientists will expose the students to common collection methods as well as specimen preparation such as bird and mammal taxidermy. Course work will be described at the beginning of each class. Midterm critiques, small groups of 5, will determine and promote individual projects to be presented in the Final Critiques.

Class Number

2088

Credits

3