Pam Longobardi - The Drifters Project

Two Appearances: one in Portland and one in Biddeford

Pam Longobardi, Professor of Art from University of Georgia will be on UNE campuses from Sunday October 14th through Saturday the 20th collecting objects from local beaches and creating an art installation on the UNE Biddeford Campus, location TBD.

Please come out to Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center during the week to see what is happening with the debris sorting. In addition, there will be various beach cleanup efforts to find material for the installation and to clean our local beaches. Stay tuned for those announcements.

Professor Pam Longobardi has had over 40 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US, China, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan and elsewhere. She received a SAF\NEA Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting, Tennessee Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship, and was artist in residence with the BAU Institute in Otranto, Italy, in Kasterlee, Belgium, and in Beijing at NY ARTS/Beijing during the 2008 Olympics. In 2005 Longobardi was named recipient of Georgia State University’s Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, where she is Professor of Art.  

Longobardi currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia and has created the Drifters Project in 2006, addressing global plastic pollution and the changing ocean. Working solo or with communities, she has made scores of interventions, cleaning beaches of plastic all over the world, removing thousands of pounds of material from the natural environment. Upcoming in 2012 is a project addressing plastic and oil at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin in May, and a major expedition sponsored by the Anchorage Museum and the Alaska SeaLife Center taking artists and scientists along Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands.

Pizza will be served!

Longobardi will also speak on Thursday, October 18th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Art Gallery in Portland.

Click here for Visiting Artist Pam Longobardi's Itinerary