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This team brings together makers from every corner of creativity—engineers, welders, divers, dreamers, and artists alike. Hailing from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, they’re uniting around a shared vision: to build something massive, meaningful, and alive. Each person adds a unique skill and story to the project, blending art, science, and soul into a collaboration that stretches from the desert floor to the ocean floor.
Jenny Wolsky
A roaming nomad, who enjoys inspiring and co-creating with tribe; A moderately seasoned novice on my building journey.
FL
Drew Molina
Jack of all trades, master of none. Welder.
Clearlake, Ca
Forrest Woods
Several trees in one spot.
Bay area
Progressive Artist in love with merging creativity, conservation and wonder!
ClearlakeOaks, Ca
Emily Savage
Muse of the Mystery
San Francisco, Ca
Goose Manriquez
Mustached, Mexican, digital and dimensional artist.
Oakland, Ca
Interdisciplinary artist whose work draws on her education, community organizing, and sustainability through her leading work in reuse and renewable energy.
Springfield, Illinois
Artist, educator, and arts leader whose creative and community work informs her role as Executive Director of the Springfield Art Association.
Springfield, Illinois
Lover and advocate of humans. I build public goods with science and technology.
Rose Herr
I’m a thalassophile, diver master, and sorta decent with a power tool.
Bodega, CA
Angeline Chen
Kyle Block
Celebrating Collaboration!
Celebrating Collaboration!
After lighting up the playa, Octopolis will be placed in the ocean as artificial reefs—transforming art into habitat and beauty into biodiversity.
It’s a bold fusion of creativity, sustainability, and ecological restoration—where what inspires us on land helps heal the sea.
~In order to achieve these goals......
Big Art has collaborated with the following outstanding organizations:
Global Coralition, Creative Reuse Marketplace, and the Springfield Art Association:
Global Coralition
Global Coralition
Co-founders Angeline Chen and Kyle Block, had their paradigm forever altered while living in Thailand and watching a coral reef they loved dying before their eyes. As they learned about the dire situation for reefs worldwide, they also learned about the immense capabilities to rehabilitate these essential ecosystems. With the guidance of scientific leaders in the field, they realized the need for widespread mobilization and developed this approach bridging art, science and communities. Their sculptures aim to offer the world a felt and transformative connection to our oceans and each other and empower climate resilience for island communities and a globally regenerative future for all.
CRM
CRM
In Spring 2019, the former City of Springfield's Waste & Recycling Programs Manager, Adena Rivas, created a coalition of diverse local organizations and innovative leaders within the community interested in working together to make her vision of a reuse, upcycling marketplace a reality.
Today, CRM is a small nonprofit that seeks to foster community and inspire creative reuse through environmental stewardship, education and community programming, as well as building skills for the underserved and/or those in need in the community.
Springfield Art Association
Springfield Art Association
Serving more than 98,000 people with high-quality programs and events such as Art Synergy, the Film Festival, the Fine Art Fair, ROASTED, and Paint the Street
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