Learn about ocean-related art and performances and the ways that art can be used to communicate scientific concepts in these short video podcasts from the Aquarium of the Pacific. The Long Beach, California-based Aquarium regularly hosts exhibits and performances to inspire interest in the ocean and environment in new ways. Speakers in the institution’s Guest Speaker Series have included sculptors, painters, photographers, filmmakers, and also sound artists.
Lecture date: January 30, 2020. Josie Iselin will share images of her artwork, discuss how her interest in art and science brought her to study seawee...
Danielle Eubank recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 5, 2019. Eubank is a painter and member of The Explorer’s Club, and a 2018 Creative...
JD Talasek recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 18, 2018. Talasek is the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Science...
Lecture date: January 18, 2018. J.D. Talasek provides an overview of some of the activities occurring in the office of Cultural Programs of the Nation...
Mac Stone recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 18, 2016. Stone is a conservation photographer who frequently works in swamps and wetlands...
Lecture date: October 12, 2016. Artist Gail Wight discussed how topics in biology—like deep time, species diversity, extinction, and the forces of wea...