Paula
Metallo

Paula Metallo was born in Syracuse, New York and is an American artist living in the Marche Region of Italy. She has a BFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and graduate studies at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, Urbino, Italy.  While living in Berkeley, California for ten years, she won the New Langton Arts/Swig Watkins Award.  In 1992, she and her partner, Alessandro Montanari, founded the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco, where the International Big History Association (IBHA) was established on August 20, 2010.  While living among scientists, she began expressing the relationship between science and art. Her exhibitions include Rimanere Colpiti (Awstruck) at a Geological Society of America Penrose Conference on climate history in Ancona (Italy) in 2007; (UN)Measuring The World, with the Humboldt Museum of Natural History of Berlin (Germany) in 2009; Impact Art at the Reiskrater-Museum in Nördlingen (Germany) in 2010; Devoted Attention at the Gallery Il Gioco in Macerata in 2010; and Aspettando Il Prossimo (Waiting for the Next One) at the Museo di Gibellina in Sicily in 2011, addressing Italians and earthquakes. And a new exhibition for ACM (Associated Colleges of the Midwest) on North American environmental studies titled, Take and Give, on indigenous and environmental themes. Her website is at (http://www.paulametallo.com).