[image_with_animation image_url=”9902″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] As part of our Art & Activism series with Fredericka Foster and the Salish Sea Project, the League has adopted an orca whale. Proceeds from orca adoptions support ongoing education, research and public outreach through the Whale Museum. There were many whales up for adoption, and League artists voted to adopt Lazuli, an orca that’s 3 years old. (He’s the same age as the League!) In clean water with lots of Coho Salmon to eat, orca whales can live 90 years. Foster’s Art & Activism class is working in conjunction with a documentary film by Alan Honick to raise awareness about our threatened sea and wildlife. Adoption is just the beginning. Long live us all! [image_with_animation image_url=”9919″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] What do orca whales sound like? Below is a compilation of sound samples from orca whales in Haro Strait, near San Juan Island, in August 2006. Collected by David Neiwert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ZSvTfYYJQ
Kiki MacInnis is a painter who lives and works in Seattle. In her current practice she focuses on drawing with brush and ink on paper. She draws large drift trees and roots on site at the beach, and brings smaller matter like seaweed holdfasts, barnacles and shells back to her studio. Each time she returns to the …
Artist Piotr Szyhalski’s COVID-19: Labor Camp Reports are a daily series of poster designs inspired by news events; the first posted on March 24, 2020. This prolific series can be seen on Instagram, and is soon to be published as a book (see Kickstarter video below). These “vintage” protest and propaganda poster designs are lush, …
“I remember when my Dad told me as a kid, ‘If you want to catch a rabbit, stand behind a tree and make a noise like a carrot. Then when the rabbit comes by you grab him.’ Works pretty good until you try to figure out what kind of noise a carrot makes…” – Bob …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7670″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Find a stone you can comfortably hold in your hand. Without looking at it, spend a few minutes exploring it with your hands. Close your eyes. Feel the weight of the stone, the shape and balance and texture of it. Get to know it as well as you …
Meet Our Orca Whale
[image_with_animation image_url=”9902″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] As part of our Art & Activism series with Fredericka Foster and the Salish Sea Project, the League has adopted an orca whale. Proceeds from orca adoptions support ongoing education, research and public outreach through the Whale Museum. There were many whales up for adoption, and League artists voted to adopt Lazuli, an orca that’s 3 years old. (He’s the same age as the League!) In clean water with lots of Coho Salmon to eat, orca whales can live 90 years. Foster’s Art & Activism class is working in conjunction with a documentary film by Alan Honick to raise awareness about our threatened sea and wildlife. Adoption is just the beginning. Long live us all! [image_with_animation image_url=”9919″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] What do orca whales sound like? Below is a compilation of sound samples from orca whales in Haro Strait, near San Juan Island, in August 2006. Collected by David Neiwert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ZSvTfYYJQ
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