The Ocean School Collective

GAR Environmental/Installation Artist: The Ocean School Collective
September 2025

The Environmental/Installation artist (E/IA) is selected via jury and receives a stipend for the month-long residency, typically held in September. Artists are encouraged to work outdoors and develop their ideas and concepts pertaining to the region concurrently working on a “site-specific” installation located at the Ocean Alliance Center on Rocky Neck. This residency has made art both visible and accessible to the public. Artists are encouraged to engage the public and draw attention to questions and challenges posed by environmental policies, politics, and/or social change.

The Ocean School Collective (OSC) is an art collective made up of artists, philosophers, poets, and musicians from Boston’s North Shore and Cape Ann who have been doing artistic research in the archives of the Ocean Alliance on Rocky Neck since 2022. The OSC designs installations, performances, and creative public education events in order to promote an environmental ethic called “ocean thinking”. This collective aims to expand the cultural sphere to include the world of whales by combining creative futurism and fabulation with the advances in whale science and the ocean conservation efforts of Ocean Alliance. Their work opens creative space for artists, scientists, technology, and whales to meet together “in the safety of the song.”