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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Science, Art Combine To Show Waters Of Different Lakes Produce Strikingly Different Dye Results
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:43
	Publish Date:		2020-01-09 06:29:46
	Description:		For Northwoods artists Mary Burns and Debbie Jircik, creating art is sometimes more than putting paint on canvas or throwing clay to be fired. Instead, it’s pulling on waterproof boots, slogging into Northwoods bogs, and collecting large pails of water. “We didn’t see anyone doing any of this kind of work, where they were actually going out in the field, collecting water from bogs and lakes, and comparing how…that affects those dyes,” Burns said. Burns is from Mercer, and Jircik is from Eagle River. They’re both participants in the world of using natural dyes on fabric. “It gives me joy, that connecting through the natural world, through the plant world, especially,” Jircik said Each was selected as an Artist in Residence at the UW-Madison Trout Lake research station in Boulder Junction for 2019. Together, they worked to form an even stronger connection between art and science through a unique dye project. “Different art forms require different exploration, and this is more, seems like
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