Carol Burch-Brown's mixed media work includes videography, drawing, book arts, photography, and painting. Much of her current work is about natural history and contemporary evolutionary science.
Singing Darwin, first exhibited in November, 2009, the 150 anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, is a collaborative new media project in the arts and evolutionary sciences. Check back frequently for updates and new images. Visit www.sova.vt.edu/singingdarwin.html for a full description of the project.
Burch-Brown is Professor of Art in the School of Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech. She received an MFA from the University of Chicago and has exhibited her work widely in the US. She is co-author, with David Rigsbee of Trailers, a book about mobile homes in Appalachia. Her documentary about a gay bar in Bluefield, West Virginia is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History.