Studio art students are painting old chairs with highly individualized themes. Colin, for example, takes inspiration from van Gogh's Starry Night.

A thousand years ago, according to Wiki, in the old Julian Calendar, February 2 fell exactly six weeks before the spring equinox, (today's March 21 was March 16.) An old poem imported by Amercan Scots included this:

As the light grows longer
The cold grows stronger
If Candlemas be fair and bright
Winter will have another flight
If Candlemas be cloud and snow
Winter will be gone and not come again

Here's Jackson working on his chair.

Incidentally, the Arts Department could use more old, wooden chairs for this project, so feel free to make a donation. Getting back to the holiday, a shopkeeper in Morgantown, PA made this journal entry in February, 1841: "Last Tuesday, the 2nd, was Candlemas day, the day on which, according to the Germans, the Groundhog peeps out of his winter quarters and if he sees his shadow he pops back for another six weeks nap...."

Tucker's chair features a whole series of Dilbert comic strips.

And here's Eliza, checking out negatives in the darkroom:

The artist M.C. Escher took inspiration from the repeating, puzzle-like patterns on the walls of The Alhambra, when he visited that Moorish fort overlooking Granada in 1922. In these "tessellations," art is inspired by mathematics. These geometry students are making tessellations today:

These students are also crunching math....calculating the chemistry of silver ions reacting to solid copper.

The copper metal donates an electron to each silver ion, causing it to fall out of solution and become a solid, forming a beautiful crystal structure clinging to the copper wire.

Science, art and mathematics...together. Here's my editorial comment for February 2: If you want to know what the next six weeks' weather is going to be like, check this site--NOAA, not the behavior of Marmota monax!