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Come join us for an inspiring event where we celebrate the impact of women in the arts! Gather as we showcase the diverse talents of the artist from the North Coastal Art Gallery and the Womens Painters West our artists. Both non-profit organiazations that bring value to the arts in all the communities they touch. Both organizations continue to address social inequities through art, providing platforms for artists to express their visions and reflect on society. Visitors are encouraged to explore these artistic expressions at the upcoming exhibition and discover more about galleries year-round programs. Hear their stories, see their work, and be part of a community that values creativity and innovation. The event will be held at the North Coastal Art Gallery at 300 Carlsbad Village Dr, Ste. 101, so mark your calendars and get ready to ride the waves of creativity with us! Reception and refreshments will be served! Visit: Waves of Creativity North Coastal Art Gallery on Instagram and Facebook

On October 4, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will unveil their latest exhibition blending art and science into one unique experience with "Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen" "Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen" invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. These installations offer guests the chance to engage in scientific exploration through immersive, interactive experiences. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries. 18 artists across 10 projects come together in one immersive exhibition. Installations include: Archiving an Aquarium, Hans Baumann and James Nisbet + Birch Aquarium Birch Aquarium uses technology to pump, filter and adjust seawater for its animals, simulating a real ocean experience. In this installation, artists Hans Baumann and James Nisbet explore how this technology shapes our understanding of ocean ecologies. Using archival footage and blueprints from the 1992 Hall of Fishes they create a “virtual aquarium” that highlights the evolution of the aquarium's efforts to bring the ocean to the public. Fish Phone Booth, Ash Eliza Smith and Robert Twomey Ash Eliza Smith and Robert Twomey create an interactive audio and sensory media experience where storytelling meets a guided sound bath. This project brings research from ocean acoustics and the internet of animals to life, translating data from outside the limits of human perception into bodily and sonic experiences. How to Look Into the Ocean, Claudine Arendt + Zooglider Large-scale biomorphically shaped sculptures draw us into a dimly lit space. The sculptures, created by Claudine Arendt in collaboration with Scripps Oceanography scientists Mark Ohman (PI of the California Current Ecosystem project) and Sven Gastauer, are snapshots of plankton drifting through ocean water. Guests will interact with these sculptures by touch to bring them into the world of these tiny organisms. Kumeyaay Ha Kwaiyo, Stan Rodriguez with Priscilla Ortiz, Andrew Pittman and Nan Renner In the Ha Kwaiyo installation, a mid-size tule boat (by Priscilla Ortiz) hangs above guests, as if floating on the ocean surface. A nearby film by Andrew James Pittman tells the behind-the-scenes story of how boatmaking embodies Indigenous resilience, resistance and revival. La Jolla Forest, Dwight Hwang and Oriana Poindexter + Mohammad Sedarat of the Smith Laboratory La Jolla Forest is an immersive artwork created by Oriana Poindexter and Dwight Hwang to highlight both the beauty and the fragility of Giant Kelp. The installation draws attention to the biodiversity of La Jolla’s marine ecosystems by blending their expertise in cyanotype creation and traditional Japanese Gyotaku fish printing. Mosaic Ocean, Judit Hersko + Jaffe Laboratory In Mosaic Ocean, Judit Hersko explores the diversity of zooplankton by blending traditional and cutting-edge technology. In this installation, guests view images of plankton through the portals of multiple stereographic lenses, a plankton-observation methodology developed by Scripps Oceanography researcher Jules Jaffe. Our Worlds, Catherine Eng and Kilma Lattin Our Worlds is an immersive storytelling application by Catherine Eng and Kilma Lattin that uses augmented reality technology to overlay interactive Indigenous narratives onto real-world locations. Through this app, guests will unlock stories, videos and 3D models of tule boats and Kumeyaay oceangoing stories, narrated by Embodied Pacific artist and educator Stan Rodriguez. Passengers of Change, Danielle McHaskell, Joe Riley and Audrey Snyder + the Smith Laboratory An invasive species can act as both a “driver” and a “passenger” in ecosystems. In this collaboration with marine ecologist Danielle McHaskell, the artists investigate whether global shipping has turned the algae Wakame into a major invasive species. Guests will explore how human trade affects marine ecosystems and reflect on our role in this process. R/P FLIP R.I.P., Rachel Mayeri + FLIP The FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) debuted in 1963 as a first-of-its-kind strategy for understanding ocean water columns. To shed light on FLIP’s second act as a marine acoustics platform, Rachel Mayeri – in collaboration with humanities scholars Deborah Forster and David Serlin and Scripps staff – produced a large-scale triptych video artwork to take us inside the recently decommissioned vessel through new and archival footage. Superradiance. Embodying Earth., Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstader + SOARS Superradiance. Embodying Earth. is a data dramatization of complex ocean simulations, distilled and re-imagined in the form of abstract visuals and sounds inspired by the Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator (SOARS). SOARS is a 120-foot-long wave tank researchers use to replicate and study air and sea interactions under controlled laboratory conditions. Unbleached, Scott McAvoy + Sandin and Smith Laboratories Unbleached is a digitization and visualization of key coral reef environments over time. Projected video re-creates coral clusters at Palmyra Atoll, a small island in the central Pacific Ocean, on a 3D printed reef to explore changes to the reef over time. This installation was created in collaboration with the Sandin and Smith Laboratories and archaeologist Dominique Rissolo and the 100 Island Challenge. "Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen" is one of the six locations of "Embodied Pacific" which features projects by 30 artists working with researchers in laboratories, field sites and archives in Southern California and the Pacific Islands. This partnership between UC San Diego Visual Arts and Birch Aquarium at Scripps invites immersive engagement in oceanography, Indigenous design and critical craft through exhibitions, workshops and programs. "Embodied Pacific" is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. PST ART is a groundbreaking cultural collaboration.  Every five years, PST ART unites hundreds of artists around a single, electrifying theme at more than 70 exhibition spaces. While the theme is different each time, the heart of PST ART is always the distinctive cultural identity of Southern California, and the universal hunger for artistic and intellectual discovery. In a region famed for its films and theme parks, PST ART provides a different kind of gripping experience — and the most distinctively Southern Californian of all. Birch Aquarium is open daily and "Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen" is included with General Admission. Visit aquarium.ucsd.edu for more information including the Daily Schedule. Birch Aquarium at Scripps on Facebook / Instagram

Magic Jacket Productions is excited to announce the staging of “Leo and the Science Project,” a sweet-hearted, fun, and funny children’s puppet show written and directed by Heather Whitney. Leo, a six-year-old child living with autism, knows in his heart that he’s great at science. But when his scientist Mom visits and guides his classmates through their favorite science projects, Leo realizes that everyone needs a little help sometimes to succeed. Featuring original music, the play celebrates the fun of doing easy, safe classroom science experiments with a dash of silliness and humor.

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From the organizers: Oolong Gallery presents: Amy Pachowicz Gilded Age February 7 – March 10, 2025 Opening Reception: February 7, 6–8 p.m. Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Appointments advised: info@oolongallery.com | +1 858 229 2788 Oolong Gallery is pleased to present Gilded Age, a solo exhibition by San Diego artist Amy Pachowicz. Through a series of evocative botanical paintings and large and small-scale collages, Pachowicz explores themes of nostalgia, impermanence, desire, death and sensuality, as well as the dissonance between personal memory and the larger world’s turbulence. Pachowicz’s delicate botanical renderings depict fragments of life—branches, feathers, and leaves—suspended in rich fields of color, relics of the natural world that once pulsed with vitality but now exist as remnants of what was. The artist grapples with the tension between artistic creation and the realities of global suffering, reflecting on what it means to live and create amid conflict and loss. “I hang bundles of cut plants in my studio: flowers, sage, my neighbors weeds that grew four feet high, even a found feather. I dry them, sketch them and draw them in a large format. I draw them alone against a background of color. These are large scale oil stick drawings of relics suspended in space; remnants of the life that once flowed through them.” Her collages, constructed from carefully sourced print media spanning the 1960s through the 1980s, are deeply personal yet universally resonant. Drawing from childhood encyclopedias, vintage magazines, and family ephemera—including materials from her father’s career as a traveling encyclopedia salesman—Pachowicz weaves together a visual narrative of a world once filled with analog wonder, before the digital age redefined the way we consume imagery and knowledge. The muted tones and textures of these compositions stand in stark contrast to the oversaturated, pixelated media landscape of today. “I compile collages of print media from my childhood and nostalgic images I’ve collected. 1980’s Penthouse, our family encyclopedia set (my father was a traveling encyclopedia salesman back in the 70’s), teen beat magazines and Charlie’s Angels posters, my grandmother’s Betty Crocker cookbook; the things of a girl growing up in a previous era of California, all make it into the collages. I remember a time when printed media had a feeling of value. I grew up reading books and playing in canyons, feeling grass and sun and skinned knees on concrete. The digital age and computerized images are different." "Color pictures from the 1967 encyclopedia Britannica are rich and soft; nuanced teals, magentas, mint greens and lilacs entertained me. Color photos today are full of primary reds, blues and yellows. I glance and look away. It must have something to do with a change in printing and inks. The encyclopedia I looked at as a child also had black and white images of far off places. A distant island, an uninhabited beach, an arctic glacier photographed in a way where it looked like an explorer was approaching for the first time; discovering a new land. Today the world feels overexposed from digital advertising.” Amy Pachowicz (born 1968) was raised in San Diego and is working with themes of nostalgia and nature. She studied archaeology and graduated from UCSD in 1996 with a minor in studio painting following a year at Barnard College, Columbia University, NY. Pachowicz’s practice is informed by an early academic foundation in archaeology, a discipline that continues to shape her exploration of artifacts—whether organic or printed—as vessels of memory and meaning. Her work has been exhibited at Oolong Gallery in Encinitas, juried exhibitions at the Athenaeum in La Jolla, and numerous group shows across San Diego since the late 1990s, including ICE Gallery in 2002.

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