Graul Chair in Arts and Languages
Sights and Sounds of Nature: Nina Grauley
Nina Grauley has always been curious about the world around her. She first learned about it through art, but science introduced her to the processes and structures that lay beneath the surface. Being a science illustrator allows her to bring both of these disciplines together to grow our understanding of the places we are a part of.
Paying attention to the particularities of a community, whether it is made up of plants or people, is an act of love. Nina very much has a researcher’s heart. She loves looking at the world and asking questions. She gets incredibly excited about big academic ideas and tiny clumps of moss on the sidewalk. This world is so big and so beautiful and the closer you look at anything the more exciting it gets, but also the more obvious it becomes that our relationships with ourselves, each other, and with nature are broken. Nina’s work centers around a belief that looking closely at nature can teach us more about what it means to be human, and how we can begin the process of healing together.