about the project

thespillsmiths.org is a two part awareness project created in response to the 2010 gulf oil spill. Part one is an art, jewelry, and video installation project which was held at Mr. Beast Gallery in Savannah, GA, November 4-9, 2010. Part two is the online interactive education platform, thespillsmiths.org, which includes documentation of the Savannah project and an online retail store where visitors can buy jewelry to support gulf oil spill clean-up efforts.





Nov 9, 2010

The Oiled Oceans

Scale is hard to convey - but each of these three canvases stand at 8 feet tall. The triptych is about 15 feet wide, and each of the small dots you see are the 1500 brooches we created. The clusters of brooches are organized around areas that have experienced catastrophic spills, but they spread around the oceans to remind us that no spill is ever contained.

During the exhibition, visitors helped us 'clean-up' our world by purchasing brooches and removing them from the oceans. This symbolic act can't change what happened in the Gulf, but the jewelry now carries a message of warning out into the world.

We also created a series of special edition brooches, featuring wildlife that has been directly effected by the spill; From Blue Crab to the Brown Pelican (Louisiana's State Bird), to Kemp Ridley's Sea Turtle, the Dwarf Sea Horse, and Dolphins.




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