FIELD TRIP TO OIMB

The field trip to the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) will occur Friday to Saturday, April 26 – 27. Reservations are already in place. This will include an overnight stay at OIMB April 26. Lodging and Breakfast at OIMB will be covered by a grant as well as other events (see below).  Transportation to the coast will be either by independent travel (self-funded) or common van (grant funded) to be determined mostly depending upon preferences of the studio for the 2 hour trip.  The exact schedule will be determined by the first week of the spring quarter to best accommodate students’ class schedules.

Students will have an individual dorm room at OIMB, and should bring bed linens or sleeping bag, pillow, towel and personal hygiene items (soap, shampoo, etc.).

The visit to OIMB will include a walking tour of Sunset Bay State Park with a Park Service Specialist on the coastal ecology.

The visit will also include parallel research vessel tour will be chartered for a view from the ocean.

Site field sketches will be made of Sunset Bay State Park and nearby Cape Arago State Park. The studio design projects will focus on a hypothetical community housing cluster at Sunset Bay State Park, where a campsite presently exists,  or at Cape Arago State Park, where one does not presently exist.

 

Breakfast will be served at OIMB and personal dietary preferences will be accommodated. Other meals will either be self-catered, provided by OMIB, or at local area restaurants, to be determined in consultation with students enrolled in the studio.

There will be a hands-on mast hoop workshop that involves steam bending wood at local wood boat fabrication yard in Coos Bay. Image below is from a prior studio mast hoop workshop held at the Apprenticeshop, Rockland, Maine.

The Margaret Told is an active Schooner in Bar Harbor, Maine  with Mast Hoops