I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this art form with others.”įor Sharkey, the nascent paludarium being built for the Genetics Building is “So I have my weekly aquarium service route,” says Glaeser. In addition to his donations to UW–Madison, Glaeser has built, planted and tended aquaria at Edgewood College’s new Sonderegger Science Center and Madison’s West High School. The group meets regularly at Science House on campus. He is a founder and president of the Madison Aquarium Gardeners Club, which formed in 2000 as a hobbyist gateway to planted aquaria. In recent years he has expanded his portfolio to paludariums. Glaeser, who retired from Wisconsin Public Television in 1998 after working almost 40 years as a scenic designer, has been building customized aquariums and terrariums for almost 20 years. It’s a centerpiece for biology,” Sharkey says. “Having that paludarium here is incredibly appropriate. Sharkey, who met Glaeser in passing as he tended his aquarium in Birge Hall, is delighted to have Glaeser’s living art decorate the entry point to Wisconsin biology education. “He asks that we do routine maintenance, but that’s a way to get others involved as much as anything,” says Tom Sharkey, a professor of botany and the director of the Institute for Cross-College Biology Education.
His only request is that the recipients care properly for his creations. He also has built and maintained a 150-gallon aquarium stocked, fittingly, with aquatic plants in the cavernous lobby of Birge Hall, the building that houses the university’s botany department.Īll of Glaeser’s glass-encased artwork has been donated. On the second floor of Noland Hall, Glaeser has created a 75-gallon aquascape. The large paludarium Glaeser is constructing is the second paludarium he has built on the Madison campus. “It gives a sense of discovery to the mind’s eye.” “It provides a break, an opportunity to take a walk in your imagination,” says Glaeser. With tiny waterfalls and a fogger to generate mist, the effect will be of a tropical island, the perfect escape for winter-weary staff, students and faculty. Glaeser says the work is intended as a refuge for busy minds. The paludarium is centered on large chunks of red volcanic rock which, in the fashion of a coral island, rises from the water and provides pocks and holes for tropical plants. “It becomes an art piece that is very analogous to a garden.” “It’s living art,” Glaeser explains to a visitor as he steps around plants, gravel and volcanic rock arrayed in the foyer of the institute. A retired artist and designer, Glaeser is constructing his own 20-cubic-foot version of Eden in a paludarium, a hybrid aquarium-terrarium complete with tropical plants, fish and waterfalls. It is only fitting, then, that John Glaeser’s “jungle paradise” takes center stage there. As the home of the Institute for Cross-College Biology Education, it is a place where prospective and current students are counseled, and academic pathways in the life sciences are routinely explored and mapped.
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