YSU McDonough Museum of Art: Sanctuary Panel Discussion: The Fate of Birds, Dr. Brian Bonhomme, Dr. Ian Renne, and John Guy Petruzzi

Sanctuary Panel Discussion: The Fate of Birds

Dr. Brian Bonhomme, Dr. Ian Renne and John Guy Petruzzi

Wednesday, October 3, 11am-12pm, 2018

This panel discussion brings together the expertise of two Youngstown State University professors: Historian, Dr. Brian Bonhomme, and Biologist, Dr. Ian Renne. Both, along with artist, John Guy Petruzzi, are avid ornithologists.

Dr. Brian Bonhomme will discuss the origins of the idea of biodiversity and extinction as related to bird species between the 18thand early 20th centuries. Dr. Ian Renne will address avian conservation in the Anthropocene - the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Artist, John Guy Petruzzi, who works with watercolor on synthetic paper, will moderate the conversation, and bridge the connection between his paintings of endangered and extinct birds, and the topics at hand.