Provincetown Event to Celebrate Art, Science, Sailing, and the Sea
I’m excited to be heading to Provincetown next week to participate in Inspired by the Sea, a three-day celebration of ocean conservation, science, art, and sailing presented in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Center for Coastal Studies.
From August 27–29, the Provincetown waterfront will become a meeting place for artists, scientists, researchers, sailors, and ocean advocates. The events bring together the Center for Coastal Studies, Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Sail As You Are, and marine debris artists from around the region.
I’ll be participating in Friday’s science-art fair and Gallery-Galley Stroll at MacMillan Pier, where marine research, technology, and artwork made with marine debris will share the same waterfront space. Artwork and activities will extend onto the historic schooner Hindu and the Rozalia Project’s sailing research vessel American Promise.
This intersection of art, science, and direct engagement with the ocean is closely connected to my own practice. Much of my work begins with walking the wrack-line—collecting, observing, and paying attention to the materials carried, deposited, tangled, and left behind by the sea. Bringing those materials back to the waterfront as sculpture creates another opportunity to consider where they came from and what they can tell us about our relationship with the ocean.
The three-day celebration also includes shoreline cleanup activities, marine debris research and demonstrations, participatory art making, ocean films projected onto the Hindu’s mainsail, and a gathering of sailing vessels in Provincetown Harbor.
I’m especially looking forward to being part of an event where art isn’t separate from research or environmental action. Instead, each becomes another way of looking closely at the ocean—and of imagining how we might care for it differently.
Inspired by the Sea
August 27–29, 2026
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Read more about the event and schedule through the Center for Coastal Studies.
