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Killackey Illustration Mar 22, 2024

I’ve spent enough time staring at old Tiwanaku photos that I’m making up little scenes in my head. For example, I think it’s the same dog photobombing both these images taken in 1876 by Georges B. von Grumbkow. I can see him following the photographer around site and then growing bored and falling asleep at each stop as Grumbkow set up equipment and took shots.
#archaeology #bolivia #photography #Tiwanaku

Killackey Illustration Feb 22, 2024

I’m organizing a TAG Santa Fe session on sketching and uncertainty in archaeology with Zoe Crossland and @roddick_a. Check out our abstract and other sessions at the link. Some of NEH-Mellon fellowship work on Late Formative Tiwanaku will be featured!
https://tagsantafe.com/sessions/

#sketching #uncertainty #archaeology #digitalhumanities

TAG Santa Fe Sessions

All sessions at TAG Santa Fe are “organized,” insofar as they are proposed and chaired by one or more scholars. There are no general sessions. That said, it is not necessary to be recruited into a …

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Killackey Illustration Jan 8, 2024

Starting the new year enjoying some Christmas book gifts.

#sciart #textiles

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Killackey Illustration Sep 25, 2023

A photo of the some of the participating parents (pregnant at the time of the study but now with babies!) and artists (I'm siting on the middle right with a tan coat and jeans).

Killackey Illustration Sep 25, 2023

And here is my contribution, "Variants", to the @aoc_study exhibition, created after multiple visits to the @sloboda_lab at McMaster University to learn all about the early origins of health and disease.

"Variants" addresses the complexity of factors affecting the early origins of health and disease. The sequence of paintings in this triptych guides the viewer through the process of a hypothetical fetus becoming a physical reality.

#SciArt #HamOnt #McMaster #Watercolor #FineArt

Killackey Illustration Sep 13, 2023

The Art of Creation exhibition opens this Thursday after 1 and a half years of work! Join us at the opening reception, from 6 to 9 pm, at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

#SciArt #HamOnt #FineArt #McMaster

Killackey Illustration Jul 2, 2023

I’m just back from two weeks in Chiapas Mexico. While I was there to see Maya archaeological sites and collect references for illustrations, I couldn’t help but notice all the butterflies. So many butterflies! Every day I spotted new species I hadn’t seen before. This one hung out on my backpack for a while and gave me a surprise when it opened its wings. Anybody more knowledgeable know the species?
#butterfly #entomology #mexico #chiapas #insect #mariposa

Killackey Illustration Apr 19, 2023

A little watercolor of Toby, my sister-in-law’s cat, who passed last year.

I painted it on cold press paper, not my usual choice. We fought a bit but I’d like to think we became friends in the end.

#watercolor #painting #cat #illustration

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Killackey Illustration Mar 28, 2023

The Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation is made up of the citizens of the Smith River Rancheria and their ancestral lands are in northern coastal California and southern Oregon.
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Killackey Illustration Mar 28, 2023

Voting is now open for the @SAAorg’s best Archaeology Month poster! Anyone can vote here:

https://www.saa.org/education-outreach/public-outreach/state-archaeology-celebrations/poster-contest

Please consider voting for California’s entry, a labor of love by myself, Suntayea Steinruck (Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation), Cynthia Ford (Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation), & Shannon Tushingham (Washington State University). The poster tells the story of Tolowa Dee-ni’ lhvmsr xwee-ghatlh-ghelh-dvn or fish camp.

#archaeology #SciArt #California #Foodways #Infographic #Illustration

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