Art and Science Exhibition Showcases Bird Extinction and Resilience

Step into the STEAM  2026 exhibition on the Pensacola Artwork Museum, and also you step into Pippin Frisbie-Calder’s fowl world: “Extinct, Threatened, Restored.”

Unfold throughout three partitions of the gallery, the exhibit showcases what’s at stake after we shield birds and the locations they want. Because the museum explains, “With floor-to-ceiling prints and work, this immersive, multi-media artwork set up transports members to the world’s first restored seabird colony” and past.  One wall is devoted to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, believed to be extinct. On the center wall, Frisbie-Calder highlights songbird species experiencing threats to their survival, together with cats, migration hazards, a altering local weather, and extra. Lastly, on the third wall, Frisbie-Calder depicts puffins and their restored Maine populations.

What path will our favourite fowl species comply with? That’s as much as us. As a part of the exhibit, guests can take down one of many paper birds on the three partitions (they’re held in place by magnets). In the event that they take motion for birds – together with filling out an motion alert to members of Congress in assist of the Forage Gish Conservation Act (study extra here), out there within the gallery itself.

As a part of the exhibit, be part of us on December 12 from 4-6 p.m. for a panel dialogue on defending seabirds in Florida and past with Pippin Frisbie-Calder; Audubon’s Bethany Kraft, Brian Cammarano, Collette Lauzau; and extra. Drinks and refreshments can be offered by the Pensacola Artwork Museum, and the panel will start at 5 p.m.

For extra info on the exhibition, click on here.