Emily Graslie: From landscapes to taxidermy
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2013
⏱️ 13 minutes
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How does a landscape artist become the host of a popular science show on YouTube? For Emily Graslie it started with pictures of a wolf head on Facebook. Emily Graslie graduated from The University of Montana with a BFA in painting in 2011. Her relationship with science began as an internship with The University of Montana Zoological Museum during her senior year. What started off as a means to practice scientific illustration gradually developed into a love of skeletal preparation and an interest in the inner workings of natural history museums. In January of 2013, with the help of YouTube educator Hank Green and producer Michael Aranda, Emily and co. launched a YouTube channel about science museums and research collections. 'The Brain Scoop' aims to share the wonderful inner and outer workings of natural history museums by discussing all aspects of science, biology, and the joys of discovery. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more and subscribe to our podcast at our website: http://storycollider.org/
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| 0:31.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:34.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.7 | It felt... I was so... |
| 0:38.3 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:39.3 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:42.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:49.3 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 1:02.6 | This week's story is from Emily Grassley. The story was recorded in September 2013 at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:13.6 | The theme of the evening was Poisons and Passions. |
| 1:30.3 | Hi, my name is Emily, and I have a confession to make. That is, I never wanted to be a scientist. I wanted to be a large-scale landscape artist. I graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Art and Painting. My senior thesis work was an 8 by 14-foot painting of a thunder cell coming in over the South Dakota Prairie where I grew up. I was really fortunate to have understanding parents. |
| 1:47.6 | My mom is a family practice physician, |
| 1:49.7 | and she never once pressured me into following in her footsteps, |
| 1:53.3 | which is pretty embarrassing for me if I consider how hard she had it. |
| 1:58.8 | She grew up in a single-parent household in rural South Dakota in the 1960s and 70s. Her mother had an eighth grade education and her grandparents didn't get past the third grade. So growing up, my mom didn't have any really good educational role models. My grandma wanted my mom to marry the nice farmer man down |
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