Julie Anderson Bailey

Body of Water: new sculpture made of paper and foil, inspired by my airplane view over Greenland.

Grandma achievement unlocked.

“Biology Rising: Freshwater Family” the immersive version. @ericbraman.bsky.social and I made made a public art installation based on my original monotypes on circles sculpture, with our poems for the city of Eugene, OR. It was fun to walk through! #installationart #mixedmedia #printmaking #sciart

Love it

Thanks, Owen!

Thanks for sharing!

All one gauge! I’m using tie wire, I find it at the hardware store, it’s used for tying rebar, to reinforce concrete work.

Wire sculpture pods with green objects in the center, sitting on a bench covered in white paper.

“Origins” - Getting ready for the Artsake gallery show in Newport, Oregon, during March and April. #sciart #trendingart #biology #sculpture #gallery #art

Gorgeous!

Documenting my #wire vessels before they head off to For Artsake gallery in Newport, OR. I’ve really enjoyed making them and can’t wait to see how they display them. So many shadows yet to be discovered! Most of these are large, 24” in diameter or so #sciart #sculpture #art #traditionalart #shadows

Volvox in black and white, a 1905 drawing by Frank P. Smith:

Thanks for sharing, @micromotility.bsky.social !

Managing Loss With Creativity Artist Julie Anderson Bailey shares how creating art has helped her through sad and anxious times.

I’m on a podcast talking about creativity and grief. Public radio in southern Oregon, 14 minutes long, not too terrible. #sciart #creativity #art #grief : www.ijpr.org/show/the-jef...

Gelatinous clump of salamander eggs in brown pond water

Mass of brown frog eggs submerged in pond water.

woman in blue coat at edge of a pond, surrounded by yellow grass and red willow branches

Two people in a green canoe on a pond.

We found a red-legged frog egg mass and a salamander egg mass in this pond that’s being restored! Plus I got to hang out with scientists. Thanks #umpquawatershed #biology #botany #sciart #science

Love these pops of color!

Thank you, me too! They have waders I can borrow but I have a feeling I’ll be getting my own soon…

Right? They were there all along, and I knew it, but I guess I needed to make this new body of work before I met them, so I could show them, and they could tell me the science behind what I’m actually doing. Haha!

Women looking into a microscope on a table. A book entitled “Becoming Earth How Our Planet Came to Be” is also on the table.

I met the #scientists: lucky me, I found the good people at Umpqua Watershed this week. They loaned me a microscope to view some volvox from the North Umpqua River, invited me to muck about in a pond to count salamanders, and figure out an art installation for Earth Day, too. #biology #sciart #art

Thanks, Owen!

Thanks for sharing!

YUM!

Thank you so much, Susan! I’ll share the immersive version next…

Sculpture made of green paper and wire circles, forming a column, in a window. 4 feet wide by 10 feet high. Taken during natural daylight hours.

Sculpture made of green paper and wire circles, forming a column, in a window. 4 feet wide by 10 feet high. Photo was taken at night, and the installation glows from below, and casts a reflection of the green circles in the window.

Here is a current iteration of my “Biology Rising” installation which explores Volvox, the freshwater algae that forms daughter colonies inside their mother cells and collaborate to survive. This column form glows at night. Made of #monotypes on tissue paper, dipped in beeswax. #sciart #biology

Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you so much, Laura!

Branch against a white wall, with some other art made of wire on the wall also.

Right? It’s quite different when I stand it up, I like it better in its side. Here it is standing up:

Installation art based on volvox algae, made of green paper circles forming a column, lit from below so it glows.

This thread is so great, thank you so much for sharing! And in case you’re interested, here’s the new iteration of the “BiologyRising” installation, I made it into a column and lit it from below, as if it’s moving up to the sun:

Thank you so much, Megan!

Thank you thank you! The thing is, I am not a scientist and after I made this, one of my biologist friends told me it reminded her of Volvox, so I researched it and found this same photo you’ve posted. The art all made sense then. I’m so happy to be meeting others who get it, too. #sciart

Limb from a madrone tree on a white table

I spotted this glorious limb from a madrone tree weeks ago on the side of the twisty road that snakes its way along the ridge of the river, up to my house. It’s in a precarious spot for cars, so I haven’t stopped, but today I got brave and grabbed it! #sciart #trees #sculpture #art #botany #nature