Jessica Segall, a self-described “artist that needs discipline,” infuses the darkened space of Smack Mellon with sexual tension and suggestions of menace. With transgressive defiance, her multichannel video installation Human Energy confronts the spectacle of petroleum extraction, appropriating and subverting its masculine iconography.
A crowd gathered at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center as Patti Maxine, a Santa Cruz-based musician, strummed her guitar and sang a tribute to Ms. Blue, the blue whale skeleton that has stood guard outside of the Seymour Center since 2000. The whale bones will be lowered to the ground for safe public viewing this month as the metal structures supporting Ms. Blue have deteriorated to an unsafe condition. The Seymour Center welcomed the public to celebrate the whale skeleton Sunday.