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Promethean Sparks & NAS Building Timeline (2024)

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CULTURAL April 1- December 31, 2024 PROGRAMS OF NAS Building, East Gallery Annex THE NATIONAL 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Promethean Sparks Mural by Ben Volta and Alain Locke School Students, 2024, installed at the National Academy of Sciences Building Promethean Sparks & NAS Building Timeline

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Inspired by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) building, which turned 100 in 2024, sixth-grade students at the Alain Locke School in West Philadelphia created the Promethean Sparks mural. The students collaborated with artist and educator Ben Volta to imagine how scientific imagery in the NAS building's Great Hall—from the Prometheus mural by Albert Herter and the golden dome by Hildreth Meière—might look if recreated in the twenty-first century. Their vibrant mural was exhibited alongside a timeline of the NAS building, which depicted the accomplishments of the Academy in the context of US and world events over the past century. The timeline was curated by Alana Quinn and Alexandra Briseno in consultation with historians Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Peter J. Westwick.

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