Fall & Winter 2024 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!
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
Friday, November 22nd, 5-6 pm join me on a walkthrough of the exhibit: An Artist Journey into the Science of Seaweed. Register HERE.
October 18, 11 - 3 pm
Estuarine and Ocean Science Center/ SFSU OPEN HOUSE
Josie will be hosting her Art & Algae cyanotype workshop. Her colorful banners are hanging in Delta Hall.
October 18 - 20, 2024
California Seaweed Festival Eureka, CA
Books, scarves, shower curtains all available. Presentation with the Big River Kelp Restoration team. Release of NEW Kelp Restoration pages on The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp webstory. Come on out!
BELOW ARE LINKS TO PRESENTATIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND PAST EVENTS
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:
