This exhibition presents a comprehensive insight of a fifteen year joint effort between two women renowned in their fields, Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover and Karen Jacobson. It strives to advance the exploration and documentation of the ocean floor, an under-explored area closer than any planet and still vastly uncharted by any who live here. Providing a unique and innovative way to bring audiences of the arts and sciences together, Beyond the Edge of the Sea opens up the world of underwater exploration and expresses a need for conservation.  With this exhibition the two women have brought their unique talents together to educate others about the existence of extreme deep-ocean environments.

Over fifty excerpts from Jacobsen's sketchbooks, and five specially commissioned pieces, make up the core of the exhibition. Coupled with personal narratives and a natural history guide, this exhibition explores the deep sea like no other. The exhibition is available for select venues for showing, exhibition specifications are available from the download below. Please contact traveling exhibitions at the Muscarelle Museum of art at The College of William & Mary, 757-221-2700, museum@wm.edu