Every month, the Natural Resources Team holds a N.E.R.D. Talk.  Speakers from the community as well as our own Natural Resources Team speak on a topic related to the acronym N.E.R.D: Nature, Environment, Resource and Design. The next guest, artist Bailey Ferguson, will speak at the Kumu Kai Marine Center, King’s Pond,  on December 30th at 11:00 a.m. Please sign up with the Club Concierge.  Space is limited to 10 people.

December 30, 2022, 11 a.m.

Title:
From Deep-Sea Science to Mental Health Awareness: Using Art as a tool for Communications

Description: 
Kailua-Kona-based artist, Bailey Ferguson, will share about her visual art practice – specifically speaking about her time as an Artist-at-Sea aboard an ocean-going research vessel and her recent solo exhibition about the Blue Mind philosophy.

Bio:
Bailey Ferguson’s gestural paintings are defined by bright color palettes and layered paint applications evoking the ethereal qualities of water. Her abstracted style emerged as a symbolic way to communicate feelings of connection, impermanence, and healing while displaced in 2018 during the Kīlauea volcanic eruption. Since then, Ferguson has explored water as a metaphor for the human condition. Ferguson was an Artist-At-Sea resident sailing from Honolulu to Fiji aboard a Research Vessel, she volunteered with a coral research lab in Kona and is an avid surfer and diver. These ocean experiences inform her art philosophy.

Ferguson’s work has been featured at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster CA, the Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art, and in publications, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her work is held in private collections internationally.