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Pam Longobardi

@driftersproject

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Artist. Activist. Surfer. Seeker. Creature lover. Intrepid explorer. We are nature. Ocean is life. Love in action💥🌈

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I'm thrilled to have my work on the cover of this amazing new book by @moodsmoothie addressing the psychological effect of eco-grief from climate change.

"Economies of Scale"
Vagrant ocean plastic from the world ocean, mounted on steel
225" in length. by @driftersproject

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9 days ago

New arrangement gives a sense of different energies in the painting~
@momentumgallery by @driftersproject

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12 days ago

Solar eclipse in ATL~
from my studio building

1. Cloud formations:
giant fist or hand reaching up. Strange dotted markings around the Sun on the left side

2. Light spear skewering the Sun

3. Apogee is a cookie bite

4. Alien spaceship with contrails taken in Chamblee, Georgia by @driftersproject

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Always 💕 getting invites to be part of @deannasirlinart curations for @theartsection ~

This one is titled 'Field of Pink' and Deanna's essay is beautiful~

More good stuff awaits inside ~

Link below in last comment by @driftersproject

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Happiness for my paintings and collages to find new homes in Brooklyn, Knoxville and Asheville~

It's always a great thing when art goes out into the world to do its work~

Details from:
1. The Immensity, 2025, 47" x 56"
2. Water Knowledge (they know), 2016, 24" x 30"
3. Island of Refuge (underground electricy) , 2024, 15" x 18" by @driftersproject

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Didn't mean to post this twice!
Goobery Instagram ~

But I have to leave them because of all the beautiful comments...

🌈🥂🌸~~~THANK YOU ALL~~~🧡🦋🐝🐬
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Just took the big dive into the rest of my life~!

I retired from @gsu_artdesign after 30 years and 10 before that at @utknoxville !!

I feel so lucky to have a job that I’ve loved for so long that it never felt too much like a job. It allowed me to follow my artistic curiosities and convictions farther than I could have ever imagined. And to be around fantastic people and conversations and art making...It is what has kept me at it for 40 years, the last 30 right here at GSU.

What has made this job really great and fulfilling… is GSU. It’s all the students in their scrappy devoted beautiful messes, like we all are, striving to make the best art we can. And its all of you, my amazing colleagues…I’ve never been in a situation where people working together actually supported each other like we do, and over the years I’ve been at GSU, it’s just gotten better and better.

It’s a real success and a real triumph and it’s very rare and very hard to achieve. I’m incredibly grateful to have spent the majority of my life working towards this beautiful thing. For me, it’s a model of how the world can actually be, where individuals from every possible angle of humanness are fully present in the mix, interacting as a real community. It becomes a true functioning democracy in the most radical sense there is. All ideas are valid, all peoples’ individuality is treasured, and their goals supported and cultivated. This is our shared mission, in a nutshell: to make the world better.

I feel I’ve been able to do that with all of you by my side and for that I feel really really grateful and full of love.

Thank you for all these years making my life fulfilling and joyous! by @driftersproject

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I am just thrilled to be included in this article for Forbes by @joanneshurvell
(London) with 3 other fantastic artists :: @raphaellaspence (U.K.), @richterova_pet_artist (Czech Republic), and @cindypeaseroe (U.S.A.)
Link in bio.

"Some of the most interesting contemporary artists today can be described as “environmental artists.” Olafur Eliasson, Agnes Denes and Andy Goldsworthy are three prominent examples as each engage with the environment through distinct practices: Eliasson creates immersive works focused on climate systems and melting ice, Denes transforms land into conceptual ecological statements such as urban wheat fields, and Goldsworthy constructs ephemeral sculptures from natural materials that return to the landscape, highlighting cycles of change and decay. Raphaella Spence (U.K.), Pam Longobardi (U.S.A.), Veronika Richterová (Czech Republic) and Cindy Pease Roe (U.S.A.) are four influential female artists who deserve greater recognition for their works on ocean waste. They each have exhibitions in North America and Europe in 2026 where you can see their powerful environmental artwork. "

#womencontemporaryartists
#oceanplastic
#environmentaldisaster
#transformativeart by @driftersproject

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5 months ago

Memory of a magical trip to #solomonislands

Not sure what this phenomenon was I saw, but it was mystical energy of that place creating all sorts of wonders~ by @driftersproject

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An Earth year memory from Bali with @oceanic.society on expedition from Bali to Komodo collecting plastic pollution from remote island in 2014 ~

🌞🦋🐙🦀🦜🐟🩵🌊 by @driftersproject

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A visit to my big public art project in Naples, FL. It is in a 75' breezeway on 5th Ave South, comprised of 2 large composite sculptural wall pieces and 5 architectural diaramas inset into the wall. After seeing my exhibition Ocean Gleaning, the principals of Colson Investments felt the public need to see the work and commissioned me for their public space. Big gratitude to Myriam Colson, @susan_knippenberg and @artisnaples for helping to make this project realized. taken in 5th Avenue Naples, Florida by @driftersproject

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. . . keep your sights ahead . . .

. . . keep looking forward . . .

. . . Take courage . . . . . by @driftersproject

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