Last month, Skirball Cultural Center welcomed almost 300 high school students, along with their teachers and chaperones for a special screening of Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as part of their “High School Film & Dialogue Series.” For this program, they partnered with the Los Angeles-based environmental nonprofit 5 Gyres, and the founders of the organization,…
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Rear View Mirror: Saying Goodbye to Gyre: The Plastic Ocean
As you may already know, our Fall 2015 exhibition, Gyre: The Plastic Ocean closed to the public on November 21, 2015. We’re so sad to see Gyre: The Plastic Ocean go, but we’re already preparing for our upcoming exhibition, 20/20: Accelerando. Gyre may be long gone, but the themes from exhibition still linger on at…
Artist Talks with Cynthia Minet
Artist Cynthia Minet led a tour through the museum to talk about the inspiration and the process of her work featured in Gyre: The Plastic Ocean and her focus installation Cynthia Minet: Beast of Burden. She describes how she found discarded objects on the side of the road, some found by friends, constructing framework and sometimes naming…
What is a “gyre”?
Fisher Museum curator Ariadni Liokatis explains what a “gyre” is in a short preview video of our current exhibition, Gyre: The Plastic Ocean. Come stop by and remember, admission is free for everyone!…
Hello, World!
We’re so excited to be introducing our new website, where you’ll get access to everything Fisher and more, easier than ever! Fall 2015 @ Fisher: We are thrilled to be hosting our upcoming exhibitions, Gyre: The Plastic Ocean and Cynthia Minet: Beast of Burden, and all programs and events associated with them! Opening to public on September 2nd, Gyre: The Plastic Ocean is a traveling exhibition that made its…