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Dawn Hunter | Artist, Fulbright Scholar, Starr Scholar and Associate Professor at UofSC.



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This summer has brought a lot of wonderful opportunities and unexpected fulfillment. Aside from my Plein Air painting and drawing practice, I was also awarded an Honorable Mention prize for my work, Dueling Cajals, in the 2022 Art of Neuroscience competition out of the Netherlands. The end of July was capped off with some unexpected good news and a tremendous opportunity. I was elected to the Board of Directors of the long-standing prestigious organization, the Cajal Club, founded in 1947 by Wendell Krieg. As a board member, I will serve as the organization's Golgi Apparatus, which means I am their webmaster. During the last week of July and the first week of August, I invested time in giving their website an overhaul: hard work and collaboration with top, internationally renowned Neuroscientists I have admired for years. It is a tremendous honor to redesign and maintain their website.


You can learn more about my summer adventures in the thematic sections below.


Plein Air and Observational Drawings, Summer 2022
Art of Neuroscience
Cajal Club Website



Art of Neuroscience, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience



Dueling Cajals receives Honorable Mention in prestigious international sciart competition.



Jurors Dr. Bevil Conway, Dr. Flora Lysen and Dr. Sabine Niederer



"This submission struck the jury because of its emphasis on the history of neuroscience. The work highlights how any scientific process, particularly scientific image-making, can be influenced by a multilayering of cultural and historical factors. The jury admired how diverse periods in time from this historical perspective were weaved into one image, and appreciated the effort that went into investigating the sources that Cajal was exposed to. Dueling Cajals serves as an important reminder for neuroscientists to recognize history and its influence on their work. " - AoN, NIN, NL





Dawn Hunter, Dueling Cajals, marker, ink and pen on paper, 11" x 14"



Portrait of Dawn Hunter pictured with the primary sources housed in the Legado Cajal, Instituto Cajal, Madrid, that inspired her artwork Dueling Cajals. Below, link to the Instagram reel about her process.





Cajal Club Website Design



I feel Honored, humbled and proud to be elected to the Cajal Club Board of Directors. What an opportunity, I have so many emotions and I am completely speechless that they would select me to create a new website for their organization. During the transition From July to August, my life was full of hard work, collaboration, and feedback from and with top Neuroscientists that I have admired for Years (!) - the new website is now live. It is an ongoing endeavor, a garden that will continue to flourish and grow. stay tuned, more content is yet to come. Link is in the button above this text.


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POrtrait of Wendell Krieg, Founder of The Cajal Club



The 6th Image of the HomePage Carousel of Images



This sixth image featured on the homepage is a false colour transmission electron microscope (tem) micrograph of a neuron cell body showing mitochondria (pink), lysosomes (green), microtubules (red), rer (yellow) and Golgi (light green), Stockphoto 123RF by Jose Calvo.



A Self-Portrait of Cajal at the Age of 81



This is a photograph that I took of one of Cajal's self-portrait photographs while completing my Fulbright Fellowship research at the Cajal Institute, and is reproduced here courtesy of the Cajal Institute, Cajal Legacy, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.



The 4th Page of the Award Pages



A lot of the website design involved creating meaningful content with indexed text. Because of the number of previous awardees, it was a challenge. However, I was able to incorporate content with the form that resonates meaning with the organization. Like this photo from the Smithsonian of Elizabeth C. Crosby juxtaposed behind the list of awardees, the first recipient of the Pinckney J. Harman Memorial Lecture.



The 7th image of the HomePage Carousel of Images



This homepage image is a photo of a documentary photo that I took during my Fulbright Fellowship research at the Cajal Institute. It is a tourist photo of Cajal and his research assistants. This image is reproduced here and on the Cajal Club website courtesy of the Cajal Institute, Cajal Legacy, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.



History and Proceedings



Like the Award pages, the Proceedings presented a challenge because it is an archive that is based in language, and the content needed to be arranged in an aesthetic, but cogent manner. Thus, my interpretations of Cajal's drawing became the context in which to index the content. The design scheme relied on subtle tints and shades of yellow-orange and blue-violet.



Cortical Neurons, Drawing by Cajal



This is another one of my Fulbright Fellowship research documentary photograph. This one is of a Cajal cortical neurons drawing above and is reproduced here courtesy of the Cajal Institute, Cajal Legacy, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.



The 2nd Image of the HomePage Carousel of Images



Second image, Lower-power Nissl with rat by Cajal Club Board Member, Archivist and Historian, Larry Swanson.





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