Photographer Diana Rogers (DO) and Lab Director Jonathan Dorfan celebrating at the exhibition opening (Photo by Marty Breidenbach)

Can you fit 500 people into the Breezeway? No problem, if 400 are photographic portraits and the remainder are the enthusiastic crowd who came to the opening of the exhibition ‘Interface: People Who Make SLAC Work.’

‘Interface’ is the first exhibition organized by the new Art Committee and showcases wonderful photographs of SLAC staff and users taken by Diana Rogers. If you haven’t seen the exhibition yet head over to the Breezeway now, you won’t regret it.

The custom-made display structure, designed by Michael Hyde (TIS) and built by Alfred Suarez and Eric Gaillant (both MFD), will be re-used for future exhibitions the Committee has already planned.

Why an Art Committee at SLAC?

Physics research is a way of seeing: probably the most precise way of seeing that humanity has ever developed. Art, too, is a way of seeing: without the precision of physics but with more intuition and emotion.

Both ways of seeing are valid and at SLAC we have a unique opportunity to mix and compare both cultures. The physics we have in abundance, but so far, little art. The aim of the Art Committee is to organize exhibitions, and eventually talks and events to inject art into SLAC daily life.

If you would like to help bring art to SLAC or are simply interested in art, get in touch with the Art Committee.