“Women of the Deep“ for Pathfinders Symposium at the Explorers Club
Mara G. Haseltine “Notes: On Infusing the Field Sciences with Art and Poetry For the Pathfinders Symposium Nov 5th and 6th 2021 Explorer’s Club- Whose Mission is to “Explore: Air, Land and Sea…by whatever means possible” This 5 min spot by artist, educator, enviornmental activist, and explorer Mara G Haseltine as an introduction of her […]
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!
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:
Portraits of My Mother
“Portraits of My Mother” by Mara G. Haseltine On May 14th science-based artist Mara G. Haseltine will have a virtual online exhibit ,“Portraits of My Mother” – the most intimate and personal work the artist has created. “Portraits of My Mother” is an homage to the artist’s recently deceased mother, Patricia Gercik Haseltine. Patricia […]
A Sculpture for the Age of Corona Virus: Dancing on the Line Between Art and Scientific Discovery’ by Mara G. Haseltine
The article below is an interview published in CLOT magazine I conducted with a structural biologist Rolf Hilgenfeld whose work was the inspiration for one of my largest sculptures to date SARS Inhibited located in Singapore’s biotech mecca Biopolis designed by architect Zaha Hadid. I was compelled to do this interview because I felt it […]
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 […]
Recipe for the Ultimate Restoration of Urban Oyster Habitat
For the past ten years I have been working on a book with Meredith Comi of the NY/NJ Baykeeper which will be a handbook on sustainable reef restoration methods. Our experiments and findings will be published along with a how-to illustrated guide. The recipe below is our initial guidelines for what the book will be […]
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. […]
Musée Océanographique de Monaco Revisited
Musée Océanographique de Monaco I could not believe it I had not been there since hitchhiking across Europe at age 18 and being once again submerged it in treasure trove of 19thc. marine specimins and art and actually exhibiting there was overwhelming! I realize my visit there has been informing my practice as an artist […]
“Happy Future Water Baby” in Support of Fukishima Okiagari Koboshi Doll Project-Europe
I just finished decorating my Dharma doll for the where different artists and celebrities decorate their own dolls in support of the Fukashima project my dear friend Minoru Watanabe gave me in Paris! I am so excited since I am an artist obsessed with the ocean and how life will evolve I am dubbing this […]
Confessions of a Sea Creature Trapped in an Artists Body
All my life like many artists I have felt alone out of place a misfit. No I am not gay, overtly shy or a racial minority many of the other things that many people struggle with as they strive to be a functioning happy member of society its worse…I feel and have always […]