About
GNSI Northwest is a non-profit organization dedicated to artists of the Pacific Northwest who focus on illustrating the natural world. The chapter is currently centered in the Puget Sound region, but consists of members from all over Washington State as well as Oregon, California, and even Arizona!
Our chapter aims to provide members with learning and networking opportunities in the form of sketch meetups, virtual sketching events, workshops, exhibitions, field trips, and more. Members range from hobbyists to established career scientific illustrators, but all members share an interest in both science and art.
Our chapter aims to provide members with learning and networking opportunities in the form of sketch meetups, virtual sketching events, workshops, exhibitions, field trips, and more. Members range from hobbyists to established career scientific illustrators, but all members share an interest in both science and art.
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History
GNSI Northwest was founded in 1979 and was accepted as a 501c(6) non-profit organization in March of 1989. Since its inception, GNSI Northwest has curated over 30 exhibits featuring the work of its members. In 2004, the chapter organized the Traditions in Natural Science Illustration Traveling Exhibit that showed in five locations around the Puget Sound Region between 2004-2010. In July of 2011, GNSI Northwest hosted the GNSI Annual Conference on the Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, WA. Today, GNSI Northwest continues to produce group exhibits and has grown to over 50 members.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
GNIS Northwest is dedicated to fostering a more diverse and inclusive world of science artists. The field of scientific illustration (and all related science and art fields) has benefited from a long history of oppression and exploitation, and it is our responsibility to acknowledge and contextualize how institutional racism and white supremacy culture have shaped the field of scientific illustration. We recognize the violent history of systemic racism in STEAM, academia, and scientific illustration. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and other community organizers working to dismantle white supremacy in our field and in the broader world and hope that we can do the same in small ways within the science art community. We acknowledge that our learning is never complete and are committed to building an equitable, inclusive, engaging community that celebrates collaborative science communication and science art.