Rocks and Minerals Down the Microscope
Geo-Art Pop-Up Exhibit
October 8-November 19, 2025
Emery Community Arts Center Lobby
Opening reception: Wed. Oct. 8th from 12:30pm-2pm
Rocks and the minerals within are all around us from the hills and mountains around Farmington to the raw materials used to make the electronic components in our cell phones! To celebrate these wonderful elements of the natural world, the Rocks and Minerals Down the Microscope exhibition at the Emery Community Arts Center will showcase rocks in a way that many have not seen them before: looking down the microscope! Display pieces in this ‘geoart’ exhibit will consist of photographs of rock thin sections, very thin slices of rock (about the thickness of a human hair!) glued to small rectangular pieces of glass, taken using a specialized optical microscope camera.
From a geologist’s perspective, rock thin sections represent a vital means for examining
microscopic-scale features of their samples that are difficult to observe by looking at the rocks in hand specimen. As it turns out though due to the rich and varied range of minerals in rocks, each with their own unique ranges of color and texture, rock thin section photos function as their own natural works of art! Rock thin section images on display in the exhibit will include rock samples from Farmington and elsewhere so we invite you to come explore the truly spectacular, microscopic world of rocks and minerals!
microscopic-scale features of their samples that are difficult to observe by looking at the rocks in hand specimen. As it turns out though due to the rich and varied range of minerals in rocks, each with their own unique ranges of color and texture, rock thin section photos function as their own natural works of art! Rock thin section images on display in the exhibit will include rock samples from Farmington and elsewhere so we invite you to come explore the truly spectacular, microscopic world of rocks and minerals!
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The Rocks and Minerals Down the Microscope exhibition will be on display during the Fall 2025 semester in the Emery Community Arts Center from October 8th to November 19th with an opening reception on Wednesday, October 8th from 12:30PM to 2:00PM that all are welcome to attend. The timing of the exhibit corresponds with Earth Science Week (October 12th -18th, 2025) that is put on annually by the American Geosciences Institute to highlight and celebrate the importance of the geosciences to our daily lives.
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