Artist Talk & GalleRE REmix: Opening Reception for Entangled and Ingested
Fri, Jun 05
|Pam Sartory GalleRE at Resource Depot
Join us to celebrate National Geographic Explorer Dr. Katharine Owens and her project Entangled and Ingested — life-sized animal portraits built from community-collected plastics. Enjoy an artist talk, hands-on workshop, and light refreshments. Free and open to the public. $10 donations appreciated.
Time & Location
Jun 05, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Pam Sartory GalleRE at Resource Depot, 2508 Florida Ave, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA
About the Event
Step into an exhibition where discarded plastic becomes a powerful act of witness. In Entangled and Ingested, National Geographic Explorer, Fulbright Nehru Fellow, and University of Hartford professor Dr. Katharine Owens transforms unrecyclable plastics — collected from her own consumption and that of her community — into breathtaking, life-sized portraits of the marine animals most harmed by plastic pollution. From seabirds tangled in debris to sea turtles struggling with ingestion, each piece carries the weight of her two decades of global research on plastic's devastating impact on our oceans.
The evening begins with an Artist Talk from 5:30–6:30 PM, where Dr. Owens shares the science, fieldwork, and urgent conservation mission behind her work, followed by a Q&A. Then join the Pam Sartory GalleRE opening from 6:30–7:30 PM to experience the collection in person — and get hands-on with her most ambitious piece yet: an 80-foot Fin Whale portrait, one of…
