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Join artist and author Corinne May Botz as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of her best-selling book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a collection of eighteen miniature crime scene models and the woman who constructed them, progressive criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878 – 1962). Built in the 1940's and 50's after actual homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths, the dioramas were created to train police officers to assess visual evidence. They display an astounding level of precision and detail: shades can be raised and lowered, mice live in the walls, stereoscopes work, whistles blow and pencils write. In addition to creating hundreds of photographs of the models, Botz spent years researching and writing about Lee, drawing on archival research as well as interviews with Lee's family and police colleagues. Tonight, Botz will discuss the fascinating life of Frances Glessner Lee, and take you on a photographic journey of the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death."