Artist + Professor + Art + Design+ Environmentalist

This site includes my galleries, publications, and projects from around the world. 

As the winner of the prestigious Hudgens Prize and a Distinguished Professor at Georgia State University, Pam Longobardi has appeared in the pages of National Geographic, Sierra Magazine, as well as on the Weather Channel. Her thought-provoking work has also been featured in exhibitions, galleries, museums, and public spaces around the world.

In the Maldives : Cosmopolitan Ocean Residency + Commission

A wonderful thing bubbled up from the deep blue sea this summer: an invitation for an ocean residency and artwork commission at Patina Maldives, an eco-resort with primary mission of functional sustainability and an art collection that includes a commissioned Skyscape architecture by renowned artist James Turrell. The Maldives is a place that has long been on my mind ever since I learned it was the lowest lying country on earth and would be ‘ground zero’ for sea level rise

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Beautiful article in SparkNews France / Fabrique des Recits

I am so honored by this powerfully-written photo essay covering my work. Thank you @fabriquedesrecits for the article responding to my @earthsky interview, @sparknews for the repost, and @naturefinder Wayne Sentman for his great portrait photo of me after my scuba dive in Indonesia aboard the Sea Safari II. Translation in English follows French text below: https://fabriquedesrecits.com/inspire/pamela-longobardi-les-dechet-plastiques-dans-nos-oceans-de-linspiration-a-la-denonciation/ ARTICLE TEXT IN FRENCH AccueilS’inspirer Pamela Longobardi & les déchet plastiques dans nos océans, de l’inspiration à la dénonciation 1Production & Consommation 7Rapport à la Nature @ Publié le 21 avril 2023 Et si

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New Article Published on The Conversation + EarthSky !!

My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean Pam Longobardi, Georgia State University I am obsessed with plastic objects. I harvest them from the ocean for the stories they hold and to mitigate their ability to harm. Each object has the potential to be a message from the sea – a poem, a cipher, a metaphor, a warning. My work collecting and photographing ocean plastic and turning it into

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Show in Prague and New York: Anthropocene – (In)visible Changes

The exhibition in Prague is an exchange show with Czech and American artists. I am exhibiting a series of large-scale photographic cartouches with a sculptural installation, and was followed by a 2nd show at Front Room Gallery in NY in Feb 2023. Galerie kritiků, Palác Adria, Jungmannova 31/36, Prague 1, Czech Republic . Curators: Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro, Petra Valentová and Kathleen Vance Artists : Sasha Bezzubov, Pamela Longobardi, Stephen Mallon, Lucie Svoboda Mičíková, Jan Pfeiffer, Adam Vačkář, Petra Gupta Valentová, Kathleen Vance 

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