The Florida Keys Audubon Society’s speaker series will continue on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the Key West Public Library, 700 Fleming St. Please note this is a new location while the Key West Garden Club is under renovation.

The speaker will be photo-based artist Alice Hargrave, who creates visual representations of bird songs. Hargrave will give a program entitled “Last Calls: Why Save That Simple Brown Bird?”

“For Last Calls I create abstract patterned “portraits” of the most threatened and endangered birds of the world. They are constructed using Spectrogram recordings, sound files depicting sound wave patterns of actual bird calls. Also included are archives of the voices of scientists describing field conditions, dates, times, and the catalog numbers of each recording,” said Hargrave.

Hargrave collaborated with the The Cornell Lab of Ornithology on this body of work. 

“I want to push the photographic medium and materials in order to let these birds shout out with vivid loud colorful pattern, giving voice to these species in peril, and in some cases depicting their last calls in the wild,” said Hargrave.

“I first saw Alice Hargrave’s work last summer and I was blown away. When I realized she was going to be doing a residency for a month at the Studios of Key West, I knew I wanted to get her in the line-up as a speaker,” said Florida Keys Audubon Society Executive Director Mark Hedden. 

Admissions is free and open to anyone who is interested.

For more information email keysaudubon@gmail.com or leave a voicemail at 305-771-5807.