School of Art Students Gain Unique Opportunity to Draw Modern and Ancient Lifeforms
Abby Fay, a senior in VPA, draws the shell of an ammonite, a fossil relative of squids, octopi and the chambered nautilus that went extinct 65 million years ago.
Through a collaboration with Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, students in School of Art Professor Susan D’Amato’s “Drawing Nature” class visit Professor Linda Ivany and the Paleontology Lab to work with actual fossils, study and draw their forms, and learn about them in the process.