They're Alive! Dinosaurs in Our Mind's Eye is an exhibition of work by artist Chris Wildrick, who teaches at Syracuse University.  Chris is interested in why these extinct animals, which no human has ever seen, have such a expansive role in our culture and imaginations. How have artists translated scientists' ideas into the images that saturate our books, movies, toys, and pajamas?  How do everyday people re-envision these images when we are reading, playing, and dreaming?

The work in this show is the result of years of participatory projects Chris has done with kids and adults at schools, science museums, and art galleries, in an attempt to learn more about how we see dinosaurs in our mind's eye. These artworks, which range from hundreds of examples of kids' dinosaur art to sophisticated analytic graphs, have been collected into books, posters, videos, and interactive projects that provide an insight into dinosaurs' relevance to our lives today.