Community BLOOMS: Katy Rodden Walker at AHA! Night – April 10, 2025

Join us for a special AHA! Night on Thursday, April 10, 2025, as the New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrates Community BLOOMS: Katy Rodden Walker, installed in the Center Street Gallery and Jacobs Family Gallery Balcony. The entire museum will be open from 4:00 to 7:00 PM with FREE ADMISSION. This evening will focus on the vital topic of ocean sustainability.

Since 2023, the New Bedford Whaling Museum has worked with interdisciplinary artist Katy Rodden Walker on a project and exhibition titled "Community Blooms," a community focused art and science project that raises awareness about plastic pollution in our oceans, waterways, and food chains, and the natural phenomena of jellyfish blooms. Culminating in a six-month immersive art installation opening November 22, 2024, this participatory project invites visitors to create, consider, and collaborate around ideas of environmental change and activism.

In the Jacobs Family Gallery and adjacent spaces, UMass Dartmouth Ecology students will showcase their capstone projects, highlighting the biggest emerging challenges to marine and coastal biodiversity conservation.

Come and engage with art, science, and sustainability at this dynamic event celebrating our shared commitment to ocean conservation!