Environmental Artist to Speak at UWG

Environmental artist Pam Longobardi will speak at the University of West Georgia on Thursday, March 15.

Longobardi will speak about her ongoing Drifters project. It is a global collaborative, interdisciplinary project focusing on marine debris, plastic pollution and the changing ocean.

Her talk, part of UWG’s Department of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Humanities building, room 312.

“The ocean functions symbolically as the unconscious of the world, regurgitating all manner of human existence,” Longobardi said.

The North Pacific Gyre, a spiral of ocean currents, “acts as the eye of the ocean to record the human imprint as it gathers drifting debris in an area the size of Texas,” she said.

Longobardi is currently a professor of art at Georgia State University and has had more than 40 solo exhibits and 65 group exhibits in galleries and museums in the U.S., China, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan and elsewhere.

The Drifters project documents Longobardi’s collection and presentation of these objects.

For more information the Drifters project go to: www.driftwebs.com.