Featuring work from the Haggerty’s permanent collection, Parallel Play is divided into four sections that coincide with the scientific method—clarify, ideate, develop and implement. Through the exhibited art pieces, connections have been made between the work of artists and scientists with a special emphasis on the essential elements of scientific research—rejection, revision and the formulation of new ideas. Parallel Play aims to demystify the process of innovation across disciplines and to illuminate the multiple routes of discovery and interpretation that art has to offer.

Image: Chris Larkee, American, b. 1983, still from Nanomachine Counterpoint, 2024, Video animation, Collection of the Marquette University Visualization LabVisual Legacies: Photographs by Ellie Lee Weems