Winter & Spring 2025 Events
Gallery openings, interviews, articles, and seminars. Please be in touch directly to schedule something for you. Josie's Vimeo channel is HERE and on instagram @JosieIselin.
Find The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp! It is a web-based book doing a deep dive into the world of bull kelp and the diversity of creatures and other seaweeds it supports. New pages about kelp restoration and aquaculture are now live. Check it out!
Art and Algae: An Ocean Intimacy. A Story in Four Parts
Essay published in Applied Phycology, volume 5, 2024, issue 1
Thursday February 13, 1-2 pm
Winter Waters Portland
Dive Deeper — Virtual Reading Group with Seaweed Dynamo, Josie Iselin. Free - register here.
March 5 - 7, 2025
Cyamus Conference of Marine Science Librarians, Monterey, CA
I am honored to be speaking about art, science, and building alternative kinds of books.
April 24th, 2025
Roundhouse Foundation, Sisters, OR
6-7:30: Art & Ecology Stewarding Oregons Coast: A conversation with Chanel Hasen of The Elakha Alliance.
Sunday, April 27th: Art & Algae cyanotype workshop. Info here.
May 3 - 7, 2025
International Seaweed Symposium '25, Victoria, BC, Canada
September 24 - December 1, 2025
San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Friday Harbor, WA
Kelp! a bull kelp installation
October 2 - 6, 2025
North Coast KelpFest! '25 Fort Bragg and Mendocino, CA
Check back for more information soon.
BELOW ARE LINKS TO PRESENTATIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND PAST EVENTS
September 27 - January 19, 2025
San Diego Public Library Central Library, 330 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA
The Curious World of Seaweed, exhibit - part of the Getty's PST, Art & Science Collide
May 25 - December 8, 2022
836M Gallery - KELP!
Video introduction to the exhibit HERE
836 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94133
An installation featuring the artwork of five women artists whose practice honors, specifically, the bull kelp that dominates the ocean waters of the Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino coastline. The exhibit will act as a nexus for programming around kelp-inspired issues concerning Northern California and beyond.
July 16 - July 17, 2022
Art on the Beach
Lincoln City, Oregon
Volunteer rakers created 100 yard long sand art depicting bull kelp and sea otter. Information was shared with the public revealing the crucial importance of kelp forests to our oceans and the interdependence of kelp and sea otter.
Revive Our Oceans Episode 4, three-minute segment.
Come snorkel in the kelp forest with Josie and on into Josie's studio as Sir David Attenborough narrates the story of the bull kelp forest of the California coast as an introduction to global kelp forest issues.
Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
The Curious World of Seaweed, November 18, 2021 - April 24, 2022
The exhibit features forty prints, large and small, from the portfolios that generated the research for the book, The Curious World of Seaweed. An extensive website brings captions, videos, and explanations to your fingertips, truly a marriage of art and science. Specimens from Beaty's extensive algal collection will be on view in cases below the artwork.
Beaty@Home - Gallery Walkthrough with Josie:
