Da Vinci of Bats; Jodi Sedlock - Bio Prof.-

Becoming passionate about something in a completely different field by using what you already love in your chosen field helps those "non-art" fields see new, creative, and different solutions to problems that they otherwise would not have found. Combining art and biology together, as Jodi Sedlock did, allows art to grow in different fields. Government, Science, and Economics are all places where art is flourishing but maybe it is not recognized as art because it is not in a big museum with white walls all around it, or up for sale within the high art community. However this 'academic art' is focused, purposeful, fulfilling aesthetically and scientifically, and can help the fields where it seems to focus the researchers, or the scientists.

Fruit Bat Video

This video shows some artistic documenting through the video medium. Sedlock mentioned she is going to take a student back to the Philippines with her who is a film studies major and plans to do a documentary.
~maybe they can come up with something better?

Combining fields of study into a major research project, whether in the political sciences or natural sciences, can both be explained to the public through video, photography, or literary media. Art is a tool for communicating the academic topics assisted by other artistic, and creative values. Catching bats, interviewing journalists, studying anatomy, the front page story, or acting out a play for HIV awareness and teen pregnancy. All art forms catch the world's attention and expand it to be something that becomes top priority. Thanks to the art world we can see and hear overseas, we can understand how a bird flies, measure the way the body works, and listen to what nature has to say. Da Vinci was a scientific artist whose work was influenced by the other world, so he also demonstrates how influences may work both ways.