Thursday, October 10, 2024 @ 10:00 AM at Peoria Riverfront Museum
​refreshments at 9:30 AM
A RAINBOW OF MATERIALS:
​Historial Pigments and Dyes

Dr. Curtis Frank
Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
 This lecture will uncover the science behind works of art, specifically paintings, through a materials science approach. Dr. Curtis Frank, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University, will explain the steps in processing inorganic minerals and organic plants into solid particles, binding these together and to a substrate, and protecting both the particles and the polymeric binder from the degrading effects of ultraviolet light, heat, and moisture.
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Frank and his wife, an artist, began co-teaching courses on the intersection of art and science in 2007 as part of his interest in understanding the steps associated with the chemistry behind the materials that artists use. Frank has received many prestigious awards and honors throughout his career. In 2013, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for the elucidation of molecular organization in polymers and other soft materials.

Sponsored by Ann Kenney Lynch and Kent Lynch

LECTURE ALSO AVAILABLE BY ZOOM
free to MEMBERS, watch for link to register in FAS email on October 3, 2024
​NON-MEMBERS, at 309tix.com