451 Fusion of Art and Science - A Criticality

Literature/Film Studies | Registration opens 8/4/26 9:00 AM EDT

701 Briarcliff Avenue Oak Ridge, TN 37830 United States
F-110
Monday, November 2, 2026-Monday, November 16, 2026
1:00 PM-2:10 PM EDT on Mon

451 Fusion of Art and Science - A Criticality

Literature/Film Studies | Registration opens 8/4/26 9:00 AM EDT

We will explore why it is critically important to our education to fuse science with art. In the creative mind, visualization strongly enhances understanding, while science lends the creative writer new metaphors, the artist might contribute to an “outside-the-box” understanding. There is a connection between physics, metaphysics, and religion, and the connections become more apparent when art and science are taken collectively. This 3-session course will have many examples.

John Mannone

John C. Mannone, Poet Laureate for the City of Oak Ridge (2026-2028), has poems in Artemis, Critical Humanities, Windhover, and others. He won numerous awards in poetry and creative nonfiction, as well as a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature. Among his six chapbooks and five full-length collections, Sacred Flute (Iris Press, 2024), was a finalist for the 2025 Tennessee Book Award. He is a retired professor of physics.