PEOPLE-NATURE-ART WITH ENVIRONMENTAL DECOY ARTIST SUE SCHUBEL

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The first People-Nature-Art of 2024 features "Seabird Sue” Schubel on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Sue has been the Outreach Educator for Project Puffin since 2000. Sharing real data from the Maine seabird islands, and personal experience from seabird colonies around the world, she hopes to encourage a new generation of conservation biologists. She is also Assistant Sanctuary Manager, providing logistical support to Audubon’s island researchers on Maine Audubon’s seven seabird islands, and helps maintain the field camps there. She also paints decoys at Audubon’s Seabird Institute based in Bremen, Maine, but not decoys intended for hunting; her creations help attract birds to breeding colonies. Sue also is an artist who paints and sculpts, inspired by her work on Maine’s islands. This free in-person event will be simultaneously livecast. Doors open at 5:45 p.m. and there will be a 6 p.m. reception for Sue before her presentation, which begins at 7 p.m. People-Nature-Art is a monthly series brings artists, writers, carvers, and creative types of all kinds to the Gilley to explore how nature and art interact in their work, and how their art impacts their own approach nature. Is it also free and open to all, but registration is required. When signing up, please indicate whether you will attend in person, or online. Sign up at www.wendellgilleymuseum.org/events. Prior to settling down in a hand-built house in Maine, Sue lived the life of a travelling biologist/paleontologist/artist/carpenter and explored islands from Polynesia to Iceland. Sue's desire to travel and work on far-flung islands has led her to pursue avian paleontology in the Cook and Pitcairn Islands, archaeology in Micronesia, seabird restoration in the Galapagos and California, and personal fun in Iceland and the Caribbean. She has built sound systems to attract many species of seabirds to dozens of safe locations from Asia to Bermuda.