NOAA Blue Bag Lunchtime Lecture
| July 14, 2008 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:00 pm |
“The Drifters Project: Plastics, Pollution, and Personhood”
Location: NOAA’s Pacific Services Center, 737 Bishop Street, Suite 1550Presented by: Ms. Pam Longobardi, Professor of Art, Georgia State University Program Professor Longobardi is an artist who has been working on an environmental art project involving marine debris in Hawaii.
Artist Pam Longobardi will speak on her project “Drifters”, a multi-faceted environmental art project that addresses marine debris and plastics pollution of the Hawaiian Islands. Longobardi has created photographic and object installations of collected debris, as well as sculptural forms made from abandoned drift nets that have been shown across the U.S. In August, she will be participating in an artist residency in Beijing, China during the 2008 Olympics
