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Artist Talk with Nathalie Miebach & Performance by the Palafox Quartet
Join us for the PMA’s kick-off event celebrating a series of Foo Foo Fest grant-sponsored programming, Exploring the Wonder of STEAM, Nov. 4 – 7, 2026!
Don’t miss this engaging talk with STEAM2026 featured artist Nathalie Miebach and a special musical performance by the Palafox Quartet.
Doors open at 5:00 p.m. Artist Talk Begins at 5:30 p.m. with musical performance to follow.
Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach explores the intersection of art and science by translating scientific data related to meteorology, ecology and oceanography into woven sculptures and musical scores and installations. Her primary method of data translation is that of basket weaving, which functions as a simple, tactile grid through which to interpret data into 3D space. Central to this work is her desire to explore the role visual and musical aesthetics play in the translation and understanding of complex scientific systems, such as weather. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including a Pollock-Krasner Award, TED Global Fellowship, Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, and two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships. Miebach’s work has been shown in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia and has been reviewed by publications spanning fine arts, design, and technology.
Nathalie Miebach’s Weather Score Project was started in 2009 and has at its core a series of musical scores based on weather data, which are adapted by composers to musical performance. The purpose of these collaborations is to convey a nuance or level of emotionality surrounding Miebach’s research that she feels is harder for her to access through her sculptures, and to reveal additional patterns or stories in the data that musicians might identify.
The Palafox Quartet will bring Miebach’s ambitious and exciting Weather Score Project to life! Treat your ears to the rare auditory experience of listening to weather data interpreted by musicians in front of a live audience, as you feast your eyes on Miebach’s visually stunning and complex wall installation, Changing Lines, featured in the STEAM2026 exhibition, on view at the PMA through January 17, 2027.
- Video – The Weather Artist: Chasing Storms with Sculpture (2016)
- Video – Nathalie Miebach’s TED Talk “Art made of Storms” (2011)
Cost
Free and open to the public! This event is generously sponsored by the Foo Foo Festival.
