LifeLong Learning

LifeLong Learning a collaboration between Colgate University's Upstate Institute and the community to provide adults with ongoing education for the enrichment of their lives in a diversity of fields.

Art, Nature and Mathematics

• Date: Thursday, September 5th, 2024

• Time: 3:00 PM

• Location: Arts at The Palace, 19 Utica St., Hamilton, NY 13346

Sculptor De Witt Godfrey will discuss how he explores and uses patterns in nature—from seashells to honeycombs—to inspire his conic and cylindrical steel forms. 

Presenter: DeWitt Godfrey graduated from Yale University, was a CORE Fellow at the MFA, Houston, and received his MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. Godfrey’s work can be found in private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,and the Brooklyn Museum. His commissioned work includes the recently completed Attun (2024) Dix Park in Raleigh, NC, Atlas (2023) at the Portland International Airport, Portland, OR, Beken (2022) for the new Taxiway Park at Alameda Point, Alameda, CA. and Eastgate (2021) for the 39th Avenue Greenway, Denver, CO. He is currently working on projects for a state park in Arkansas and the Rockland County Highway Department in Ramapo, NY.

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