Dan Jay

Dan has a mission to inspire where art and science meet. Dan is an Emeritus Professor of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology at Tufts University. He was until recently the Dean of its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He is also adjunct lecturer of Drawing and Painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) where he teaches a course on How the Brain Perceives Art dedicated to his past mentor David Hubel. In recent years, he has combined art and science with a rare perspective of a scientist’s mind and an artist’s eye. Dan develops new art media from scientific materials such as liquid nitrogen, magnetic fields and elements of the Periodic Table to express inspiration in his science from childhood to the present day. He published over 80 scientific papers and exhibited in over 20 solo shows including Harvard University, Massachusetts State House, Boston Convention Center, Aidekman Arts center (Slater Concourse), the French Cultural Center, Whitehorse Cultural Center (Yukon), the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists, the Ontario Science Centre, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Boston Museum of Science. Currently, Dan is working with The Burroughs-Wellcome Fund to address the benefits, challenges and sustainability of an Art-Science Nexus, and he mentors sci-art partners nationally. He also has a growing interest in bringing the wisdom traditions of faith and science together presented recently at the Advanced Research Centre, Glasgow.