Mara G. Haseltine is an international sci-artist, environmental-activist and educator. Haseltine collaborates with scientists and engineers to create work that addresses the link between our cultural and biological evolution. Her work takes place in the studio, lab, and field, infusing scientific inquiry with poetry. She was a pioneer in the translation of scientific data and bioinformatics into three-dimensional sculptures and became known for her outsized renditions of microscopic and sub-microscopic life. She created the first solar-powered oyster reef in NYC and has extensively studied sustainable reef restoration methods for the past 20 years, fusing art with sustainable solutions for ‘SIDS,’ Small Island Developing States at the United Nations. Haseltine has been a contributing member of the Explorers Club since 2008. She was awarded Return of the Flag for her work on the high seas with Tara Ocean Foundation, studying atmospheric climate change relationship to planktonic ecosystems. Haseltine’s work is refreshing in the world of environmental and biomedical art because of its surreal, often playful, and witty nature, as well as her intense devotion to ascetics and sensuality, all the while addressing the pressing themes of the Anthropocene Age... This past year, she founded the Geotherapy Institute for Art and Field Sciences, whose art-sci mission is to create the ‘blueprints to heal the planet’. The Institute’s first International collaborative prototype-project is underway in Laguna de Maya, Cuba, to restore their hard corals, Acropora Corals, in a race against time …