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Dawn Hunter
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Visual Artist, Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, and Fulbright Scholar of Santiago Ramón y Cajal - Cajal is my muse. Primary sources from Cajal's life are the subjects of my artwork and writing.

https://www.dawnhunterartist.com
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The Cajal Club proudly presents the 2025 Palay Award to Hongkui Zeng and Ed Lein of the Allen Institute, who led global initiatives to create comprehensive cell type atlases of the mammalian brain, including the first complete mouse & draft human brain cell atlases. #Neuroscience #Cajal #BrainAtlas
This is a portrait of Hongkui Zeng. This is a portrait of Ed Lein.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I’m honored and grateful to be featured on Cerebros y Cajal on this special day—May 1st, the 173rd anniversary of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s birth. santiagoramonycajal.org/2025/05/01/c...

#Cajal #Neuroscience #SciArt #Neuron #Neurology #SciComm @joseadserias.bsky.social @institutocajal.bsky.social
Explorando el Legado Artístico y Científico de Cajal
Explora el legado de Santiago Ramón y Cajal a través del arte de Dawn Hunter, una innovadora fusión de ciencia y creatividad visual.
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May 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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If you need anyone to come sit with you while you’re getting any kind of hours long medical treatment - ask an embroiderer.

We love a good excuse to just sit and embroider 🥰
A blue hoop holding a canvas partially embroidered with yellow, orange and green thread in an abstract pattern with some beads and sequins too
March 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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TONIGHT! March 18th at 7 PM EST, Dr. Usaamah Khan will discuss how his wonderful artworks express the experience of treating patients with complex neurologic diseases.

Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Neurohumanities Network - "Abstract Art and the Brain" with Usamaah Khan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Neurohumanities Network - "Abstract Art and the Brain" with Usamaah Khan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting...
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March 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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February 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I am pleased to share that I have a solo exhibition of my artwork from my Cajal Inventory series in the West Alcove Gallery, Clinical Center, NIH. The exhibition opened January 13, 2025; will run through April 5, 2025.

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#Cajal #neuroscience #Neuron #SciArt #CellBiology
This is a collage image featuring seven drawings illustrating Cajal and his scientific works, along with a portrait of artist Dawn Hunter. The top row includes a drawing of the Purkinje Cell, an illustration of Cajal's first sketchbook, and a portrait drawing of Cajal. The second row features a title flyer held beneath a framed drawing of Cajal, a photograph of artist Dawn Hunter in a purple blouse, and an illustration of Cajal's retina drawing. The bottom row includes an illustration of Cajal's retinal flow drawing, an illustration of Cajal's photographic self-portrait, and an illustration of Cajal's olfactory drawing.
February 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I am pleased to share that I have a solo exhibition of my artwork from my Cajal Inventory series in the West Alcove Gallery, Clinical Center, NIH. The exhibition opened January 13, 2025; will run through April 5, 2025.

@institutocajal.bsky.social

#Cajal #neuroscience #Neuron #SciArt #CellBiology
This is a collage image featuring seven drawings illustrating Cajal and his scientific works, along with a portrait of artist Dawn Hunter. The top row includes a drawing of the Purkinje Cell, an illustration of Cajal's first sketchbook, and a portrait drawing of Cajal. The second row features a title flyer held beneath a framed drawing of Cajal, a photograph of artist Dawn Hunter in a purple blouse, and an illustration of Cajal's retina drawing. The bottom row includes an illustration of Cajal's retinal flow drawing, an illustration of Cajal's photographic self-portrait, and an illustration of Cajal's olfactory drawing.
February 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Happy #Valentine’sDay throwback, look at some of my most beloved artworks, starting w/ “Art Department”—my autobiographical blending #metaphor & #symbolism to reflect my journey from art student to faculty. Its reception exceeded expectations, resonating across #AcademicDisciplines. #ArtSchool #Art
February 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Valentine's day count down continues w/ highlighting a facet of Cajal. Against the wishes of his family, Cajal was resolved to marry Silveria Fañanás García. She was his steadfast companion & her role in his life underscores the profound human element behind his groundbreaking work. #Cajal #SciArt
February 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The brain is a pattern-seeking machine, shaping identity through memory, perception & experience. Cajal mapped neurons—the “butterflies of the soul”—portraiture maps the inner self, capturing a moment in time that is both personal and universal. #Cajal #NeuroArt #SciArt @institutocajal.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Throwing it back with butterflies, ponies, and pink ladies for Valentine’s Week. 💕🦋🎠 Cajal saw neurons as “butterflies of the soul,” capturing the fleeting beauty of thought itself. Pink impacts the brain in fascinating ways? Baker-Miller Pink has a sedative effect.

#SciArt #NeuroArt #Cajal #Art
February 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Throwing it back with butterflies, ponies, and pink ladies for Valentine’s Week. 💕🦋🎠 Cajal saw neurons as “butterflies of the soul,” capturing the fleeting beauty of thought itself. Pink impacts the brain in fascinating ways? Baker-Miller Pink has a sedative effect.

#SciArt #NeuroArt #Cajal #Art
February 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The 2025 CNCM conference will take place August 18–20, 2025. Jointly sponsored by the CNCM, Cajal Club & Allen Institute for Brain Science, this event will also feature workshops on spatial transcriptomics. )ur largest conference yet!

#neuroscience #humanevolution @alleninstitute.bsky.social
January 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Honoring the legacy of those who've shaped neuroscience. The Cajal Club pays tribute to Duane E. Haines, Dennis D.M. O'Leary & Floyd E. Bloom who expanded our understanding and beauty of the brain. www.cajalclub.org/in-memoriam

#neuroscience #neuroanatomy #cajal #cortex @salkinstitute.bsky.social
In-Memoriam | Cajal Club
The Cajal Club remembers and celebrates the lives of extraordinary neuroscientists who have profoundly shaped our understanding of the brain and nervous system. These esteemed individuals, through the...
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January 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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6/6 Our final event of the year took place in December where Dawn Hunter took us on an inspiring journey into the life and art of Ramón y Cajal

Through self-portraits and photography, we saw how Cajal marketed his work and identity @dawnhunter.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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2/6 In our inaugural seminar, Dr. Alison Christy guided us through a whirlwind tour of the history of disability and taught us her method for research in medical history, and also suggested why knowing our past is so important @oligoclonalband.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Thrilled that my painting Drip has been accepted into ArtFields 2025 Competition! Drip combines simulated drips & real paint elements, merging 2-D surfaces w/ 3-D paint chunks, serving as a metaphor for the body's plasticity & modern reshaping body concepts. #acrylicpainting #contemporaryart #art
This is a painting by artist Dawn Hunter of seven female figures immersed in an environment of dripping paint. This is an image of the 2025 ArtFields sticker. This is a detail of Dawn Hunter painting Drip that features legs and feet of female figures. This is a detail of Dawn Hunter's painting Drip and it features a face of a female figure and her hair has been created out of chunks of paint.
December 14, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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⏰ In case you missed it!

Dawn Hunter took us on an inspiring journey into the life and art of Ramón y Cajal during our latest NHN Seminar

📚Born in 1852 in a small rural village in Spain, Cajal showed two lifelong passions from an early age: painting and medicine
December 12, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Join us TOMORROW, December 10th at 7 PM!

🖌️ Learn about the groundbreaking art of Ramon Y Cajal with @DawnHunterArt

➡️ Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Neurohumanities Network - "Art of Ramon Y Cajal" with Dawn Hunter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Neurohumanities Network - "Art of Ramon Y Cajal" with Dawn Hunter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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December 9, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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1/3 We are ONE WEEK away from our December neurohumanities event!

During this
@dawnhunter.bsky.social will discuss the art of Ramon Y Cajal

Register: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Neurohumanities Network - "Art of Ramon Y Cajal" with Dawn Hunter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Neurohumanities Network - "Art of Ramon Y Cajal" with Dawn Hunter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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December 3, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Art train! 🚂

Thanks for the tag @dawnhunter.bsky.social and @thepurplelilac.bsky.social

I’ll share some #sciart too (scientists, astronomy and marine mammal & invertebrates 🧪) and

tag @flyingtrilobite.com and @franzanth.bsky.social
My linocut print ‘Jocelyn Bell and the LGM-1’ showing the young astronomer in dark grey ink holding a sheet of paper, smiling while looking over her shoulder, dressed in a pea coat, cat’s eye glasses and pigtails. Behind her in green is her famous pulsar dataset like a series of horizontal parallel lines, each with an irregular peak in the middle, resembling a mountain range on a topographical map. My linocut portrait of Maude Delap printed in a gradient of dark green to dark blue ink. She is an Edwardian Irish woman in a dress with her hair pulled back seen in profile, surrounded by diagrams of the life stages of a blue jellyfish (Cyanea lamarkii): polyp, ephyrae and medusa. Polyp is tinted light blue and medusa has air transparent violet and blue. My 9.25” x 12.5” Lino block print of a Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The octopus is mostly bluish with red at the top and on its ear-like fins. Its tentacles are brown and all spiralling up close to its body. The dark water around it is blue-black. My square 8” x 8” print on white washi paper. The upper two thirds are printed as a deep blue-green rectangle with missing unprinted white silhouette of a humpback whale now filled with a linocut print of the humpback in dark blue-grey. The tip of its mouth and tail extend into the white margin space. The bottom third is a grey rectangle with the missing silhouettes of 6 barnacles unprinted in white now filled with linocut C. diadema barnacles with silver striations and orange centres with opercular valves.
November 26, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Art train! 🚃
Thank you for the tag, @dawnhunter.bsky.social

Sharing a few of my creations 🧠 🧪 🎨 - exploring #Memory #NeuroArt and #SciArt

Now passing the torch to @artologica.net and @daisypatton.bsky.social - you're up next!
An intaglio etching in dusty indigo blue of a silhouette containing magnified and abstracted imagery of neurons under the microscope. “Tangled Memories” Intaglio print with soap ground and spitbite by Kindra Crick Two WSU neuroscience undergraduates talking in front of a wall with eight overlapping paintings on blue dyed kozo paper with portraits of a human neuron in black ink and underneath an installation of large hanging neurons Blue dyed kozo paper with a large portrait of a human neuron in black ink Untangled Series painted by Kindra Crick Blue dyed kozo paper with a large portrait of a human neuron in black ink Untangled Series painted by Kindra Crick
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Art train! 🚂
Thanks for the tag, @neurobatool.bsky.social .

Sharing a few of my #BrainArt creations 🎨—exploring #NeuroArt and #SciArt.

#Cajal #Neuroscience #Neurology

Now passing the torch to @minouette.bsky.social and @kindracrick.com —you're up next!
Illustration of Cajal's pyramidal neurons of a duck by artist Dawn Hunter. Illustration of Cajal's first sketchbook from Valencia, Spain, circa 1877. This illustration was drawn from direct observation by artist Dawn Hunter. The sketchbook is open to the pages where Cajal drew neurons for the first time, depicting neurons from a pig's brain. This is a caricature drawing by artist Dawn Hunter of NIH researcher, Ben White's talk at the Instituto Cajal. This is a surreal portrait of Cajal, featuring replicas of his self-portrait drawings and silhouette profile portraits created by casting shadows of his death mask onto paper.
November 26, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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Thank you, Neurohumanities Network, for inviting me to speak on 12/10 @ 7 PM. I will discuss Cajal's legacy share images from the Legado Cajal, Biblioteca Nacional de España & private collections. Register for the event here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#Neuroscience #Cajal #SciArt #Neurology
This is a monochromatic portrait of Cajal in pyramidal neurons by artist Dawn Hunter. This is a black and white profile portrait of Cajal with text announcing a speaking engagement hosted by the Neurohumanities Network featuring Dawn Hunter
November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM