[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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Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. MUTATUS MUTANDIS 1 : with the necessary changes …
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Statuesque Emma standing on flowered blanket, drypoint on 14×11″ Rives gray BFK A sister image to the last drypoint I posted. The model’s pose reminded me of classical sculptures. This is one of the first prints I made with drypoint, for this series. I was surprised and thrilled to see what the lovely pattern on …
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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