Award-winning artist Dr. Sarah Jane Pell is an experienced Occupational Diver, aquatic performer and versatile art and science collaborator [#bendinghorizons].   

She is leading first-generation artist-astronaut crews of the commercial spaceflight era [#artistastronaut]. Her practice aptly begins underwater by connecting with deep ecologies to embody, and critique, the culture of exploration. Artefacts include sculptural, technical, poetic events and immersive media connecting bodies of water to bodies of knowledge and movement.

In the Studio and Lab, as in the ocean and space beyond, DEPTH matters. Pell’s talk will use the arc of a dive to describe strategies for working at depth, lessons learned for performing with positive pressure, exploring limits, rapture, calculating bottom times, safety stops and ascent lines, surfacing and sharing in the responsibilities of the blue economy and deep ecology that nourishes us. 

Thanks to our generous local sponsors BrightStar and Shayna Burns for supporting our speakers with presentation and SEO coaching, Shadowhouse Music for the original music composition, and Offline Supply Co for the sweet notebooks. Thanks also to Saxall Video and Mark Lobo Photography for continuing to support our events every month.