"Art Meets Nature, East Meets West"

Sandra Schachat, an agricultural life sciences/entomology master's student at MSU, is giving an illustrated talk titled "Japonisme and biodiversity in fin-de-siècle French art.” The lecture will be given as a part of associate art professor Ben Harvey’s “Art in France-1850-1900” course. A New York native, Schachat holds bachelor's degrees in art history and archaeology, with high honors in entomology, from the University of Maryland. She works at the Mississippi Entomological Museum (http://mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu/) as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow under the direction of veteran professor Richard Brown. She also is the author of two publications on insects in art history and six publications on ecology and evolution. In addition to the College of Architecture, Art and Design's art department, the program is supported by the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology.