Oil on the Beach Sigrid Simonds 38 x 24.5 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT While vacationing on California’s central coast and walking on the beach in early mornings, the patterns left on the sand by the ebbing water [...]

Blue Reverie in Peril Sue Siefkin 41 x 31 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT The deep, mesmerizing blues of our oceans are relentlessly threatened by the impact of global warming and thoughtless human activity. [...]

Break Up Maria Shell 40 x 30 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Northerners have special names for the mucky weather of spring. In Alaska, we call this time of the year Break Up. Snow from the mountains begins [...]

Plastic Chowder? Janet Scruggs 24 x 22 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT The issue of plastics causing harm to marine life and birds in our oceans has been widely publicized. But did you know you could be ingesting [...]

Agua Caliente Roxanne Schwartz 60 x 29 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Heat ripples through our Pacific Ocean as her cur-rents undulate to sister oceans across the planet. Sinuous stitching lines and fluid shapes suggest streaming, bubbling movement. [...]

Water Nancy Ryan 25.5 x 36.5 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Not all trash ends up at the dumps. The great Pacific Garbage patch stretches across a swath of the North Pacific Ocean forming a nebulous, floating junk [...]

Promise of the Pinecone Deborah Runnels 46 x 32 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT The pine cone has been an inspiration to cultures throughout history. Dionysus carried a staff with a carved pine cone symbol on its’ tip. [...]

Whither the Waterfront? Cathy Miranker 56.5 x 40.5 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT With sea level rise already remaking shorelines and cities worldwide, this quilt offers a deliberately alarmist vision of what might happen to San Francisco’s iconic [...]

Pelagic Produce Denise Oyama Miller 59 x 24 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT The kelp forests are recognized as one of the most important and productive ecosystems in the world, providing shelter for fish and other animals and [...]

Jumping the Gorge Amanda Miller 42 x 30 inches 2017 ARTIST STATEMENT Summer is fire season in the Pacific Northwest, but in recent years, annual wildfires have taken on more intense and frightening aspects. Smoke chokes communities [...]