Davidson College Prof Memorializes Three Mile Island Accident In “Chasing The Sun” Mural

Joelle Dietrick is an accomplished artist and assistant professor of art and digital studies at Davidson College. She grew up 25 miles from Three Mile Island, the site of the most serious nuclear plant disaster in U.S. history and a large inspiration for her latest mural project, Chasing the Sun. “It’s also so many other things,” says Dietrick, “the influence of Swiss design, COVID spread, cancer spread, everyone in my immediate family having cancer, discovering radon in our basement during an eighth-grade science fair experiment, Three Mile Island evacuations, climate change, climate grief, personal decisions that make an impact, public design that causes change, the butterfly effect.”

https://www.davidson.edu/news/2021/10/07/5-ws-prof-joelle-dietricks-chasing-sun-mural