Reef Shark

Courtney Mattison is an artist and ocean advocate working to inspire policy makers and the public to conserve our changing seas. A San Francisco native, Mattison completed an interdisciplinary BA in sculpture and marine ecology at Skidmore College with coursework at James Cook University in Australia. She then spent a year as a fellow at the Harvard Ceramics Program before completing an MA in Environmental Studies at Brown University, where she worked between Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to create a large-scale ceramic coral reef wall installation entitled Our Changing Seas: A coral reef story. This piece debuted at the U.S. Department of Commerce and is currently on loan at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. Mattison is currently creating a new addition to the Our Changing Seas project – Our Changing Seas: An Atlantic and Caribbean coral reef story – for Nova Southeastern University’s new Oceanographic Center. She is also developing her own line of home décor objects to inspire marine conservation under the trade name Corallia. She works out of her “Inland Sea Studio” in the Art District on Santa Fe in Denver, CO. Spoke Art is San Francisco’s newest art gallery and publishing house. Following a year of pop up exhibits in New York City, San Francisco and Oakland, we have finally settled down into our new permanent space on Sutter Street in San Francisco’s dynamic Lower Nob Hill neighborhood. We specialize in emerging new contemporary artists with a firm emphasis on figurative and illustrative works. Our regular exhibits open the first Thursday of every month, and we specialize in connecting collectors with secondary market works namely in the fields of pop surrealism, low brow and street art. SAMETAN: DON'T TREAD ON ME PangeaSeed in collaboration with Tokyo-based vinyl toy designer Cometdebris (Koji Harmon), are pleased to announce our latest shark-saving effort: Sametan – Don’t Tread on Me For one weekend only, March 29-30, 2013, at the Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, we will host a one of a kind art exhibition featuring 30 custom Sametan vinyl figures designed by 30 global artists including Frank Kozik, Buff Monster, Jenn Porreca and many more. Through this unique event we aim to generate greater awareness for the global plight of sharks and the importance of our oceans via creative and entertaining avenues in order to raise critical funding to support PangeaSeed’s ongoing efforts and groundbreaking projects. Proceeds raised through the sales of the vinyl figures will help fund PangeaSeed’s 2014 “Year of Living Dangerously” art tour of Asia. Because Asia is ground zero for the trade and consumption of many endangered species, the 2014 Asian event will reach six major Asian cities extending our core message to critical audiences.