Champlain College, Dal, KPU unveil aquatic art installations

Champlain College Saint-Lambert, Dalhousie University, and Kwantlen Polytechnic University have each unveiled art installations featuring aquatic creatures. Champlain College media students installed a colourful public art piece that in the G-Block stairwell that features fish. Dalhousie University has installed an 18-metre blue whale skeleton in its Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity, which is anticipated to open later this year. The skeleton is from a whale that was found beached in NS in 2017. At KPU, Coast Salish Artist Shain Jackson has installed the Sea of Salmon, which pays visual tribute to salmon’s importance in Indigenous culture and British Columbia’s ecosystem.