Tag: 5 Gyres
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Gyre: The Plastic Ocean Closed Months Ago, but the Impact Continues
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…
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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…
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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!
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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…