Wendy Maruyama: The wildLIFE Project

September 22, 2016. - January 15, 2017 - This captivating exhibition looks at the plight of two great animals of Africa, the elephant and the rhinoceros, and the carnage left behind by poaching and the illegal ivory trade.

Maruyama's work combines art, advocacy, and education. These pieces command our attention and beg a question: What can we do to make this stop? Satao, one of the oldest and largest Kenyan elephants and the namesake for the artwork shown at right, was killed by poachers before Maruyama could finish the project.

This multi-sensory environment includes elephants immortalized in works eight-to-12 feet high, and a Buddhist-style shrine offers incense and a bell that rings every 15 minutes to honor the animals lost to a $10 billion yearly industry.