Blue Hour
Above & Below
October 14, 2023
5pm-10pm
2451 Signal St.
San Pedro CA, 90731
An exhibition curated by Kim Abeles featuring installation, ceramics, video, glass, photography, sound, and painting by over twenty artists.
Artist: Khodr Cherri
COol Globes Project
With over 20 amazing artist installations, one night was not enough to truly appreciate the art. Click here to download the Blue Hour Artist Book.
Ticket information
All proceeds go to support AltaSea’s Project Blue education program.
$100 for each Blue Hour Admission ticket
$1,000 for a pair of Blue-Access VIP Admission tickets
If you cannot attend Blue Hour, you can donate to AltaSea here.
AltaSea is a 501(c)(3) and donations are tax-deductible.
All tickets include
Admission to Blue Hour 2023: Above & Below.
1 meal ticket for redemption at on-site food trucks.
1 drink ticket for redemption at a bar on-site.
1 digital swag bag (sent via email).
Ticket prices do not reflect surcharges and processing fees.
Blue-access vip includes
Private VIP outdoor lounge on a floating barge & Pacific Alliance Vessel recently featured in Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Monster Mako- Fresh Blood
Exclusive backdoor VIP access to event along with front door parking
Bar with signature drink and food
Mix & mingle
Talk with Women Stewarding the Ocean award winners throughout the night
Host Committee
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Barbara Stanton
Bob Ballard
Philippe & Ashlan Cousteau
Sylvia Earle
Blue Hour information
Blue Hour connects science, culture, and community by combining art and technology to tell the story of the emerging Blue Economy.
Blue Hour 2023: Above & Below will celebrate the ocean through various art installations spread throughout Berth 57 – a 60,000 square foot warehouse – on the AltaSea campus.
2023 Details:
- Date: October 14, 2023
- Location: AltaSea at the Port of LA
- Guest Curator: Kim Abeles
Blue Hour Champions
"Women stewarding the ocean"
Explorer award 2023
Kim Butts
Avatar Alliance Foundation
Kim Butts is the creative director for the Avatar Alliance Foundation with a primary focus on advocacy media. Kim’s work spans multiple media forms in both digital and physical space. She has an extensive international practice in sustainable design/build of residential and commercial structures as well as exhibition spaces having created a number of conservation and oceans focused immersive experiences.
Kim created and designed “Mission Ocean,” an oceans visualization with a realtime exploration component for TED in support of the Foundation’s grantee, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and philanthropic partner, OCEANX. Kim also co-designed what has been a 6 year-long, large-scale, oceans-focused exhibit, James Cameron – Challenging the Deep — An immersive media experience, currently traveling internationally.
Her short films include What Would the Oceans Say produced for World Ocean Day at the United Nations, Not Reality TV, a short on climate crises, and Akashinga the Brave Ones, telling the story of an all-female fighting force battling the illegal hunting of elephants in rural Zimbabwe.
Recent productions with National Geographic include Emmy Award winning Secrets of the Whales, Disney+ Super/Natural series and Secrets of the Elephants.
Kim is a member of the Explorers Club and collaborates on conservation storytelling and media with the African Wildlife Foundation.
Innovation award 2023
Inna Braverman
Eco Wave Power
Inna Braverman is the founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power, a NASDAQ-listed company (stock symbol: WAVE) that is successfully using ocean waves to generate grid-connected power from ocean waves. Eco Wave Power’s first-ever US-based wave energy pilot station is set to be installed in the coming months at AltaSea.
For Inna, clean energy is a very personal journey, as she was born in Ukraine just two weeks before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and suffered respiratory arrest due to the disaster. Luckily, her mother, a nurse, gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which saved her life. She got a second chance in life and has devoted it to the development of clean energy.
nextgen award 2023
Dr. Patricia Ramos
Santa Monica College
Dr. Patricia Ramos holds the esteemed position of Dean of Academic Affairs at Santa Monica College (SMC), a renowned community college that caters to approximately 35,000 students each year. In her role as the administrative leader of Academic Affairs for Career Education, Dr. Ramos plays a vital role in fostering collaborations between SMC and various stakeholders such as businesses, industries, labor organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other educational institutions.
These partnerships are instrumental in ensuring that SMC’s career technical education programs are closely aligned with the evolving workforce demands of both the Los Angeles region and the State of California. SMC is partnering with AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles to create post-secondary certificate and degree programs that span a variety of fields of study. The first program being developed at SMC as part of the partnership is a pioneering six-course aquaculture certificate program that is expected to launch in 2023.
cornerstone award 2023
Camilla Townsend
AltaSea Founding Chair
Camilla Townsend is AltaSea’s Emeritus Founding Board Member, retired educator, and foundation executive director. She has served the City of Los Angeles and the Harbor community in many other capacities as a professional educator and as a city and community volunteer leader.
For Ms. Townsend, being the founding board chair of AltaSea was more than the title. She used her expertise in education and connection with the community to help establish AltaSea. Her goal was to create a strong board that helped advance the mission and to create Project Blue (the education program) that now thrives thanks to the guidance, leadership, and patience of Ms. Townsend.
Artist Installations
The piece will be a part of the artist’s “Confine Series” created on an Alta Sea EcoWave container.
Cesar & Lois alongside their artwork Degenerative Cultures in Portugal (2019), which incorporates microbiological logic in order to critique human impulses to control planetary forces.
Migrations (Spoonbills), installation view, 2018
Post- consumer plastic, PVC, wood, fasteners, programmable LEDs, motion sensor, speaker, found objects from Rio Grande borderlands, rope, cable.
Each bird approx. 70 x 60 x 38 inches
For Blue Hour, Danielle will exhibit several paintings from the Artic and Antarctic. Along with several smaller prints representing each of the 5 oceans.
Urban Rebutia references the urban sprawl of Los Angeles. Each element has its own growth pattern based on nature (Rebutia is a clumping cactus) and employs the use of primary colors, alluding to the idea that all colors are possible from red, blue and yellow, a metaphor for cultural/racial assimilation.
Full artist list
- Amabelle Aguiluz
- Isabel Beavers
- Barbara Benish
- Cesar and Lois (Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio)
- Khodr Cherri
- Patsy Cox
- Joyce Dallal
- Danielle Eubank
- Katherine Gray
- Taylor Griffith
- Yaron Michael Hakim
- Lily Hope/ Wooshkindein Da.Aat
- Virginia Katz
- Dennis Keeley
- Catherine MacLean
- Ken Marchionno
- Cynthia Minet
- Wayne Perry
- Jimena Sarno
- Stephanie Sherwood
- Taiji Terasaki
- Marie Thibeault
- Barbara A. Thomason
- Minoosh Zomorodinia
Above and Below Culture Dish
- Marin Cox
- Shane Dixon
- Beth Elliott
- Candice Gawne
- Rachel X Hobreigh
- Eric Huebsch
- Lewis Koch
- Henry Krusoe
- Karena Massengill
- Tim Maxeiner
- Alan Nakagawa
- Annie Lane Parsons
- Dagoberto Perez
- Ashton Phillips
- Sonia Romero
- Jane Szabo
- Nancy Voegeli-Curran
An Installation of multiple parts
Previous Blue Hours
Additional Information
Food & Beverage
Tickets to Blue Hour: Above and Below include one meal ticket and one drink ticket.
Food options include:
- El Chef (Mexican Cuisine)
- Pasta Selvatica (Italian Cuisine)
- Gostosas (Brazilian Cuisine)
- Sirens Coffee & Tea (Coffee, Tea, Desserts)
- San Pedro Brewery (Bar/ Drinks)
Food sponsored by:
Directions
AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles
2451 Signal Street, San Pedro CA 90731
Parking
Guests will be parked alongside the AltaSea campus in front of warehouses 57 and 58. It is a short walk from these warehouses to the Dome.
Volunteers will assist with parking.
Contact Info
Contact acornejo@altasea.org for sponsorship opportunities.
Blue Hour Sponsors
Next Gen Educator
Dreamers
Artistic Sea Maven
Climate supporter
Explorer supporter
Additional Thanks to
Lee Sehon foundation
