Join the Gregg Museum of Art & Design and the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative (PSI) for an opening reception to celebrate artist Leah Sobsey's work and hear from graduate students about their research and involvement during Sobsey's residency at NC State.

NC PSI and the Gregg Museum collaborated on an artist residency and creative exchange with Sobsey during the fall 2025 semester. Sobsey worked with graduate researchers from N.C. PSI to create new artworks that are on display in the Plant Sciences Building's lobby. Her cyanotypes are on display in In Search of Thoreau's Flowers, which is at the Gregg Museum until Jan. 31, 2026.

Sobsey is an image maker, associate professor of photography, curator and director of the Gatewood Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Sobsey's multidisciplinary photographic practice reaches into science, design, installation and textile. Her photo-based work explores the natural world through archives and taxonomies with an experimental and materials-based approach to photography.

Special thanks to N.C. PSI and the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs for their support. This event is sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.