Celebrate the maritime artform of shell valentines, from the historic to contemporary interpretations  

What is a book? In its simplest form, it is a repository of words, images, information, or ideas but how can a book be reinterpreted or altered and still be a book? Where is “art” in bookmaking? How do design, structure, and materiality relate to the book as art?

Providence based artist May Babcock (b. 1986) is an eco-centric artist that creates paper works and sculptural forms from natural materials she sources from local environments. In her most recent body of work, on view at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in November of 2026, she creates a collection of “new ecologies” constructed from natural sites around southern New England.

Examine Bradford’s artwork alongside contemporary art on climate change and Eastern Arctic lifeways

A community workshop series and exhibition celebrating Guatemalan storytelling and experience