The Blue Heart Exhibit - 2023

Photo Above: Duncan Berry - Artist. Jane Lubchenko - OSU Professor / Head of NOAA, Climate staff at the White House. Jamison Chabot - Graphic Designer. 

"We created this exhibit out of deep concern for the climactic changes occurring in our oceans and along our coastlines. We have employed our craft to create this traveling exhibit of 30 works targeting aquariums and natural history museums as our venues. “art illuminating science”

We spent 18 months interviewing scientists and members of the Pacific fishing fleet to uncover the highly visual and intuitive stories depicted in this show. Our ultimate aim was at the “heart” of the viewer… that their experience would result in a deeper “felt” connection with the beauty and power of the sea, as well our changing climate upon which all life depends.” - Dwight Hwang and Duncan Berry

Art Illuminating Science
In our modern lives we are awash in science and facts, which are useful to understanding our world, but art takes us deeper in our bodies, into our hearts and our guts to really “feel” what we are experiencing.

So “feeling" is what this show is all about: Bearing emotive witness to the power and beauty of the Pacific Ocean, as well as the deep and lasting climate-driven changes and species loss that are occurring with increasing speed along our western shoreline.

For us, making these impressions from the bodies of creatures that frequent the land, sea and air along our coastlines is an “active form of reverence” like a giant living braille... It is our hope that these images will connect you in a deeper way with the ocean and your own relationship to our changing climate.

Click the links below to To view the 2 Blue Heart Exhibit videos.
The “WHY” video or motivating force behind the exhibit and the “WHAT and HOW” video tour of the exhibit with the two artists, providing the stories behind key pieces, as well as context and history for the folk-arts of nature printing and Gyotaku.