Meet award-winning author and artist Josie Iselin. Josie is the featured artist in our current exhibit “Mysteries of the Amber Forest.” Josie’s writing and art focusing on seaweed, kelp, and sea otters put her at the forefront of ocean activism, presenting and working with scientists, other artists, and environmental groups working to preserve the kelp forests of the Pacific coast. She is the co-director of a collaborative known as Above/Below, working to bring the recognition afforded the forests on land to the kelp forests below the ocean’s surface.

Josie holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She currently teaches in the School of Design at SFSU. For over twenty years, Josie has used her flatbed scanner and computer exclusively for generating imagery. She is still captivated by the fluidity with which this technique allows her to render and design with three-dimensional objects.

WHERE: Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea, 9811 Seaport Place, Sidney BC

WHEN: Tuesday, June 13 – 10am to 1pm

COST: Regular admission rates apply. Free for members!