HOPE GINSBURG : Selected Projects : Sponge Exchange, 2019–2020 : Gulf of Mexico Bryde's Whale: Endangered Species, 2020

Hope Ginsburg, Michael Royce, Joshua Quarles, Maxwell Parker

A collaborative contribution to the Coastorama installation of the Sponge Exchange exhibition. The Coastorama Cooperative rides an endangered Gulf of Mexico Bryde's whale, honoring the 100 remaining animals in the gulf and signaling the importance of collaboration to this project and to grappling with the climate crisis.

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Photo: Will Lytch

All of the students in the Sponge Exchange class with co-teacher John Byrd and TA Maxwell Parker – the "Coastorama Cooperative" – riding an endangered Gulf of Mexico Bryde's Whale, holding sea sponges, the original cooperative (multicellular) organism.