Maggie Coblentz is a Canadian artist based in Brooklyn who creates visual dreamscapes and stories about magic, science, and the imagination. Her work spans photography, writing, and cooking, from fermenting in outer space, a food truck at a solar observatory, and pickling on a glacier.
Maggie works at the National Geographic Society on the science team, and previously held a research position at the MIT Media Lab specializing in space food. She founded Fieldscape, an initiative that connects artists and scientists through field-based research and collaborative projects, and is a member of the artist collective Lythologies.
Maggie has a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Design from the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work has been featured in WIRED, The Economist, Scientific American, BBC, and NPR.