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Artist Profile: Sandy O’Connor
Editor’s Note: Sandy O’Connor is one of the featured artists in the National Marine Life Center’s upcoming Art for the Seas event. The following biography is from her website, www.redhillsudio.com. ~kaz “‘My best work is always inspired by what I have seen and experienced personally. I filter those experiences and try to capture the emotional [...]
Artist Profile: Kate Walls
Editor’s Note: Kate Walls is one of the featured artists in the National Marine Life Center’s upcoming Art for the Seas event. The following biography is from her website, www.katewalls.com. ~kaz “Kate Walls is a Cape Cod artist whose work reflects the beauty of her native surroundings. Her landscapes, floral and wildlife scenes are done [...]
My Summer at NMLC by Lianna Montgomery
I spent my summer at the National Marine Life Center as an education intern and I had a lot of fun! Last week ended my summer at NMLC and I was sad to go but I had such a great time. I learned a lot and met so many great people. My duties as an [...]
Sunset Cruise on the Island Queen
Time to set sail! The Falmouth Young Professionals are sponsoring a sunset cruise to raise funds for the National Marine Life Center. Eat, drink, and be merry aboard the beautiful Island Queen as you take a leisurely cruise around Falmouth harbor and Vineyard Sound. There’ll be food, music, raffle prizes, and a cash bar. Most [...]
Recycled Rope Makes a Great Doormat!
A few months ago, I was in Bar Harbor, Maine for the Northeast Region Stranding Conference. (Great conference and awesome group of people, by the way!) While there, I visited the Bar Harbor Whale Museum. It’s a fabulous place with lots of hands-on displays, beautifully articulated skeletons, and information on marine mammals and whale research [...]
Laundry Room Operational!
Sometimes it’s the little things…. This week we got the laundry room in our new marine animal hospital up and running! Village Plumbing had already completed the water connections while Glynn Electric hooked up the lights. All that was left was for us to set our new (to us) washer and dryer (generously donated by [...]
Local Artist Donates Painting to NMLC
Audrey Forge is local artist and long-time supporter of the National Marine Life Center. When she heard about NMLC’s Art for the Seas, she quickly signed up to help organize the event. To promote the auction, she donated a giclee print on view in NMLC’s Marine Animal Discovery Center. Tickets to win the print are [...]
Black Backed Gull Release
Today the National Marine Life Center had participated something outside our normal daily activities of education programs and turtle care. At roughly 3PM , the NMLC crew took a brief moment out of busy schedules to celebrate a quick and joyous moment to release our Black Backed Gull friend. Our gull friend, formerly known as Winger, was spotted [...]
Artist Profile: Ken Carson
Editor’s Note: Ken Carson is one of the featured artists in the National Marine Life Center’s upcoming Art for the Seas event. The following biography is from his website, www.carsonkencarson.us. ~kaz “Ken Carson received his BA Degree from Marietta College in 1972. He taught art in the Bourne school system for 35 years. During this [...]
Artist Profile: Kathryn Kleekamp
Editor’s Note: Kathryn Kleekamp is one of the featured artists in the National Marine Life Center’s upcoming Art for the Seas event. The following biography is from her website, www.SandwichArt.com. ~kaz “Before moving to Cape Cod, I enjoyed a 30-year career as a clinical microbiologist. I rather imagine all those years of looking through a [...]
Artist Profile: Robert K. Roark
Editor’s Note: Robert K. Roark is one of the featured artists in the National Marine Life Center’s upcoming Art for the Seas event. The following biography is from his website, www.masterfulart.com. ~kaz “Mr. Roark, a native of Mississippi, received his formal training at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design, [...]
The Think Tank: Dory’s Final Blog for NMLC!
Hello again everyone! I am sad to say that this will be my final blog of the summer, as I venture back to school this coming week, a little earlier for orientation programs at my school. Regardless, it has been an eventful couple of weeks since my last post, full of exciting news to share. [...]
9-year-old Sells Artwork to Save Sea Animals!
“Hi, my name is Ariana Lee Levesque. I am 9 years old. I enjoy doing paintings and collages for The National Marine Life Center. I also take guitar lessons and horse back riding too! The reason I’m doing this is to raise money for stranded, lost or hurt sea animals. I love sea animals and [...]
Noted painter Arnold Desmarais donates sea turtle painting to Art for the Seas
Cape Cod painter Arnold Desmarais loves the sea. His well-known seascapes reflect the beauty and diversity of the coast. A strong believer in giving back to the community, Mr. Desmarais was the first artist to donate work to the National Marine Life Center’s “Art for the Seas” event. Wanting to contribute something special to this [...]
4th Annual Douglas J. Fletcher Golf Tournament
Register now for the 4th annual Douglas J. Fletcher Golf Tournament! Once again all proceeds will benefit the National Marine Life Center in Buzzards Bay (a cause near and dear to Doug). Date: Thursday, September 23 Time: 8 am shotgun start Place: Brookside Club, 11 Brigadoon Road, Bourne Cost: $125 Registration: Click here to register [...]
Peace, Love, Turtles… Peace, Love, Dolphins
This Sunday, August 8th, eat breakfast at Moonakis Café in East Falmouth and save stranded turtles, seals, and dolphins! A portion of Moonakis Café proceeds will be donated to the National Marine Life Center, to help us open our new marine wildlife hospital in time for the fall stranding season. NMLC staff and volunteers will [...]
Art for the Seas
Please join us for the first annual Art for the Seas, an elegant champagne reception and silent auction of original coastal art to benefit the National Marine Life Center. Some of the finest and most noted artists on Cape Cod will participate in the auction. Proceeds will be used to help open NMLC’s new marine [...]
NMLC Seeks Animal Care Technician
ANIMAL CARE TECHNICIAN & FACILITIES COORDINATOR (full-time): The National Marine Life Center seeks a full-time animal care technician and facilities coordinator to work with stranded sea turtles, seals, and (eventually) dolphins. Responsibilities include: ~ animal husbandry; ~ acting as primary liaison between the veterinarian(s) and animal care staff and volunteers; ~ performing animal health assessments; [...]
The Think Tank: Dory’s Weekly Blog for NMLC
How time flies when you’re helping turtles! It’s difficult for me to believe that it’s already mid-July, and yet I feel that in the 1 1/2 months I’ve been here, I feel we’ve accomplished a lot. The center is now bustling with activity, as people bring their kids in to the Discovery Center for Fins [...]
Turtle Week Mania!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Today at the National Marine Life Center we started our summer programs. We kicked it off with our first week, Turtle Week, which I had the privilege of being in charge of setting up and running. Today, with the help of my fellow interns and volunteers, we started with Fins and [...]
