Virtual Talk & Panel: June 9th 5:30-6:15pm EC for Ocean Week 2020 @ The Explorers’ Club
I will be on an artist Panel for the Virtual Oceans Week 2020 at the Explorer’s Club! I will be presenting virtually from the Club’s Gallery where My radiolarian Sculpture hangs from the rafters. June 9th 5:30-6:15 streamed at: @explores.org With Special Announcement!
‘Ernst’ The Future Plankton
‘Ernst’ the Future Plankton is named after the German artist and scientist Ernst Haeckel published “Art Forms in Nature” at the turn of the century, when our oceans were healthy and robust. ‘Ernst’ the Future Plankton imagines what a plankton of the future might evolve into to combat the stressors of the today’s ocean. ‘Ernst’ the […]
Future Coastline: Project with Global Coral Reef Alliance in Conjunction with “SIDS” Small Island Developing States for UN
This is a visualization of how a future coastline might be created keeping in mind the needs of some of the most vulnerable places on earth-the Small Island Developing States or “SIDS”. Depicted here is floating reef system which grows its own calcium carbonate structure made with an innovative sustainible technology called biorock powered […]
Making Waves! Presentation in Conjunction with United Nations June 5th 6-8pm! For World Ocean Day 2020-Save the Date
I will be presenting my work in conjunction with World Ocean’s Day at the United Nations! June 5th! I am so excited I will be talking about my microscopic muses plankton… ocean inspirations threats and sustainable reef design! Save the date! List of Participants Below:
New Eco-Friendly Reef Substrate! New Interview! Mara G. Haseltine interviews Guyon Brenna of Reef Life
.Guyon Brenna Always in search of safe alternatives to traditional concrete in reef restoration work I came across this company Reef Life. I am planning on incorporating their substrate into a global citizen science and art project I am currently developing. I am attracted to Reef Life because they are a pioneer in creating the […]
Summer 2019 “The Radiolarian Skeleton Sculpture” hangs @ Explorers Club Gallery! NYC!
This Summer go on a guided tour or make a date with an Explorer to experience the famous members only “Gallery” formally known as the “Trophy Room” which graces the top floor of the Explorer’s Club. On May 6th on United Nations 2019 Sustainability Report that 1 million animals were on the endangered species […]
ECAD 2019, March 16th Silent Auction, “The 6th Mass Extinction: Age of the Anthropocene”
The debut of my New Print Series “The 6th Mass Extinction: Age of the Anthropocene” for the 2019 Explorer’s Club Anual Dinner Silent Auction. “The 6th Mass Extinction: Age of the Anthropocene….combining a skull with a radiolarian Skelton we depend on plankton for the very air that we breath. Our planet now has vast dead […]
New York City, September 8th, 2018 – January 13, 2019! Stem Cell Mandala- “Infinite Potentials”
My Work “Stem Cell Mandala” from the 2008 Series “Those Could Be Anything” of digital prints is featured as part of – “Infinite Potentials” SciArt Center exhibition at New York Hall of Science in Queens (New York City), in collaboration with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute in the UK. Curated by the Director of the […]
Visualizing the Oceanic Genome A New Project in Collaboration with Plankton Planet & Tara Expeditions!
On Earth day at EarthX April 22nd, 2018 I was delighted to unveil the beginning of new project entiteled PlanktonSource in collaboration Plankton Planet scientists and Tara Expeditions which I am very passionate about. We are at a cross roads in our planet’s evolutionary history, as a science-based artist, I constantly ask myself “what can I do […]
NEW WORKSHOP! Nov2nd- Dec 14th: Oceanic Art Through the Microscope @ Waterfront Education, Redondo Beach
Title: Oceanic Art Through the Microscope: An Art and Field Study’s class To sign Up GOTO: http://www.waterfronteducation.org/oceanic-art/ Class is Open to Middle Schoolers! To sign up for this class goto: www.waterfronteducation.org Information and Description of Class: Nov 2nd-December 14th Thursdays 1:30-3:30 Waterfront Education Class Location: Marine Innovation Hub at SEA Lab – 1021 N. Harbor Drive, […]
Eulogy for My Mentor and Friend Dr. Claire Broadbridge August 2nd 1937-Sept 2nd 2017
Above Dr. Claire Broadridge with her son Stephen in the garden in St.Ann’s Port of Spain Trinidad late 60’s Eulogy for Dr. Claire Broadridge: August 2nd 1937- September 2nd 2017 Dr. Claire Broadridge was a force of nature. A woman forever on a mission she changed landscapes, buildings and lives. I know this because I […]
Labocine May 2017 Spotlight!
Check out my online interview with Imagine Science Films Director Alexis Gambis on “Lobocine” May 2017 a SciArt global film archive: ” Microscopic Melodramas, A Surrealistic Look at Our Oceans in Peril”. To read article & see films goto: https://www.labocine.com/spotlight/88 Or read article below and see films in “video” section of this website Interview […]
Long Live the Octopus!
The word Octopus is Greek in origin Octo meaning eight which stands for its arms or tentacles. So for once and for all the plural of Octopus is Octopuses not Octopie which would be Latin. It is an ancient creature the oldest known fossil dating back 296 million years ago to the Carboniferous Period. They […]
Summer 2017 New Workshop in Bar Harbor, Maine! Foray’s Into the Microscopic World of the Maine Coast
TWO WEEK SUMMER WORKSHOP: July24th-August 4th, Summer 2017 in Scenic Bar Harbor Maine! Forays into THE MICROSCOPIC WORLD OF THE MAINE COAST- combining art and Marine Field Science. When: July24th-August 4th, Summer 2017 Cost: $600.00 enrolment fee (Housing available Upon Request) To reserve your spot got to: artwavesmdi.com I am are happy to announce the […]
Villefranche Sur La Mer: History, Plankton & Micro-plastic
Villefranche Sur La Mer: This fall I had the wonderful luck to stay in Villefranche Sur la Mer, an ancient coastal town on the Mediterranean right after tourist season ended for a week. I first learned about Villefranche because of its famous marine biology station where many of the Tara, scientists, engineers and microscopists work. […]
La Boheme: A Portrait of Our Oceans in Peril
La Boheme: A Portrait of Our Oceans in Peril The tragic tale of interspecies love at the dawn of the Anthropocene age. Excerpt from “Labocine” interview May 2017 With La Bohème, the message is perhaps much more direct and personal…where the viewer ventures into a droplet of water on a microscopic scale an acidic winter […]
Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic directed by Emily V. Driscoll of BonSci Films
Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic – Full Movie [HD] from BonSci Films on Vimeo. Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic – Full Movie – directed by Emily V. Driscoll of BonSci Films
Futurenatural
Futurenatural Series, 2015 According to Haseltine, her Futurenatural Series addresses the need for all of us to reacquaint ourselves with the primordial life force within nature. When harmonious, all organic matter and living matter of the biosphere works in tandem to create a balance and equilibrium. This work addresses the life force in nature and both imagines and embraces the […]
Supernatural 1 / Supernatural 2
Supernatural 1: rocks, hot-sculpted glass, dimensions variable, 2014 Inspired by the Shinto concept that everything in nature is alive and infused with spirits called Kami “Supernatural” literally visualizes them revealing the spirits of the rocks in this softly psychedelic rendition of a Japanese Rock Garden. In the Shinto religion this moment of awareness and enlightenment when […]
Rose, microportraits of an Astrangia Peculate coral from Cape Cod
Rose Series: micro portraits of an Astrangia Poculata coral from Cape Cod, MA, 2015 Description: The muse for “Rose” — a Portrait series of extreme close ups of the coral Astrangia poculata — comes from Cape Cod, Massachusetts and is typical of a coral polyp that inhabits the mid-Atlantic. Considered a coral “of least concern” […]