Fall & Winter 2025 Events
Gallery openings, interviews, articles, and seminars. Please be in touch directly to schedule something for you. Josie's Vimeo channel is HERE and on instagram @JosieIselin.
Find The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp! It is a web-based book doing a deep dive into the world of bull kelp and the diversity of creatures and other seaweeds it supports. New pages about kelp restoration and aquaculture are now live. New updated Sunflower Sea Star Page too! Check it out!
September 26 - December 1, 2025
Kelp! Reverberations: A collaborative installation in the glass atrium
San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Friday Harbor, WA
Member's Opening Celebration: Thursday, September 25th, 5-8 pm
October 3 - 6, 2025
North Coast KelpFest! '25
Fort Bragg and Mendocino, CA
Friday: Blue economy presentations in Fort Bragg
Saturday: Kelp parade, activities and Senescence Celebration, Mendocino
Sunday: Native foods open house, kelp restoration info session on the bluffs and kelp films
Early November
Five Foundational Kelp, mural unveiling
San Francisco State University, Science and Engineering Innovation Center
details to come
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Open Studio and Open House
622 29th Street, SF CA
BELOW ARE LINKS TO PRESENTATIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND PAST EVENTS
Art and Algae: An Ocean Intimacy. A Story in Four Parts
Essay published in Applied Phycology, volume 5, 2024, issue 1
September 27 - January 19, 2025
San Diego Public Library Central Library, 330 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA
The Curious World of Seaweed, exhibit - part of the Getty's PST, Art & Science Collide
May 25 - December 8, 2022
836M Gallery - KELP!
Video introduction to the exhibit HERE
836 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94133
An installation featuring the artwork of five women artists whose practice honors, specifically, the bull kelp that dominates the ocean waters of the Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino coastline. The exhibit will act as a nexus for programming around kelp-inspired issues concerning Northern California and beyond.
July 16 - July 17, 2022
Art on the Beach
Lincoln City, Oregon
Volunteer rakers created 100 yard long sand art depicting bull kelp and sea otter. Information was shared with the public revealing the crucial importance of kelp forests to our oceans and the interdependence of kelp and sea otter.
Revive Our Oceans Episode 4, three-minute segment.
Come snorkel in the kelp forest with Josie and on into Josie's studio as Sir David Attenborough narrates the story of the bull kelp forest of the California coast as an introduction to global kelp forest issues.
Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
The Curious World of Seaweed, November 18, 2021 - April 24, 2022
The exhibit features forty prints, large and small, from the portfolios that generated the research for the book, The Curious World of Seaweed. An extensive website brings captions, videos, and explanations to your fingertips, truly a marriage of art and science. Specimens from Beaty's extensive algal collection will be on view in cases below the artwork.
Beaty@Home - Gallery Walkthrough with Josie:
