Briefly state the main argument presented in this article (be sure to list premise AND conclusion): Recently, The Getty Foundation announced the grant recipients for the 2024 exhibit series "Pacific Standard Time 2024: Art x Science x LA." This event will include different galleries and institutes in California, which will each focus on the theme of science and art. While some of the planned exhibits focus on current and future science, one grant recipient is featuring an artist from science history. The California African American Museum received $120,000 for their exhibit "World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project." Although George Washington Carver is best known for his research on new uses for peanuts, he was also an artist. In 1941, two years before his death, TIME magazine featured a piece about Carver in which they mentioned that 71 of his paintings were being shown at Tuskegee at the time.

Carver spent most of his career as an agricultural researcher at Tuskegee, but he didn't start his university career in science. When he initially enrolled in college (after searching for a place that would accept Black students in the 19th century) he studied art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. He'd always loved plants and particularly excelled at painting them — so much so that his art teacher, Etta Budd, encouraged him to enter one of his paintings to a local art exhibit, where it was selected as one of the artworks to represent Iowa at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. Carver's painting, "Yucca and Cactus," got an honorable mention at the fair.

Despite his talents, Budd worried that Carver wouldn't be able to make a living as an artist, so she suggested that he take his plant illustration skills to the botany department at Iowa State Agricultural College. After rec