![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - 2017 - Marie Cameron](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-2017-Marie-Cameron.jpg)
Waterlines opened up last night at NUMU with a fabulous, packed preview party for members! I am so honored to be part of this extremely beautiful show curated by Marianne McGrath with such outstanding artists working in a multiplicity of media and bringing distinct perspectives and sensitive visions and voices speaking to our experience of water. Exhibiting artists include: Judith Belzer, Barbara Boissevain, Marie Cameron, Matthew Chase-Daniel, Christel Dillbohner, Linda Gass, Nancy Genn, Liz Hickok, Theodora Varnay Jones, Pantea Karimi, Cheryl E. Leonard, Danae Mattes, Marsha McDonald, Klea McKenna, Ryan M. Reynolds and Linda Simmel, I have added links to all of their websites which can be accessed by clicking on their names below.
![Waterlines - NUMU - 2017 - Marie Cameron](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-2017-Marie-Cameron.jpg)
Always a pertinent topic, and especially so in California, NUMU was able to enjoy the support of sponsors such as Badger Meter and San Jose Water Company and Kumiko Iwasawa, Iwasawa Oriental for Waterlines.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party -Lisa Cosino and Marianne McGrath- 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Lisa-Cosino-and-Marianne-McGrath-2017.jpg)
Executive Director Lisa Coscino and Curator Marianne McGrath, talking about the genesis of the show and introducing sound artist Cheryl E. Leonard who played transporting music with objects from the sea and layers of recorded sounds from waves and melting glaciers.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party -Cheryl E. Leonard- 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Cheryl-E.-Leonard-2017.jpg)
Here are some of her instruments, mussel shells, stones, dried kelp flute, stinger driftwood and shell rattles and sand.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Music - Cheryl E. Leonard - Video - Oona Stern - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Music-Cheryl-E.-Leonard-Video-Oona-Stern-2017.jpg)
Music by Cheryl E. Leonard, Video by Oona Stern.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Stilla Maris - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Stilla-Maris-2017.jpg)
I love how the various pieces in Waterlines seem to be in conversation with one another.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Marie Cameron with Stilla Maris 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Marie-Cameron-with-Stilla-Maris-2017.jpg)
With my assemblage painting with found objects and Pacific Ocean water, Stilla Maris which is Latin for Drop of the Sea and is thought to be the precursor to Stella Maris.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Marie Cameron with California Water Rites 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Marie-Cameron-with-California-Water-Rites-2017.jpg)
With California Water Rites, my assemblage with Los Gatos tap water.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - California Water Rites and Poem - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-California-Water-Rites-and-Poem-20171.jpg)
California Water Rites and Poem
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Theodora Varnay Jones - Poem - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Theodora-Varnay-Jones-Poem-2017.jpg)
Theodora Varnay Jones – Poem
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Christel Dillbohner - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Christel-Dillbohner-2017.jpg)
Christel Dillbohner with Frozen in Time – oil, cold wax on linen and Motionless Torrents – oil on silver leaf.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party -Marie Cameron with Dannae Mattes and her Evaporation Pool - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Marie-Cameron-with-Dannae-Mattes-and-her-Evaporation-Pool-2017.jpg)
With Danae Mattes and her Evaporation Pool.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Dannae Mattes - Evaporation Pool - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Dannae-Mattes-Evaporation-Pool-2017.jpg)
Site Specific Evaporation Pool by Danae Mattes.
![Waterlines - NUMU - artists and friends 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-artists-and-friends-20171.jpg)
Exhibiting artists Danae Mattes and Liz Hickok with Holly Van Hart.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Liz Hickok - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Liz-Hickok-2017.jpg)
Liz Hickok‘s photographs (sublimation print on aluminum) Lithosphere and Signal to Noise.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Pantea Karimi - 2017 - Marie Cameron](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Pantea-Karimi-2017-Marie-Cameron1.jpg)
Pantea Karimi speaking about her silkscreen, Mapping a Gulf: The Persian Gulf Map and Tour of The Persian Gulf Album with Lorraine Lawson.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-2017.jpg)
Judith Belzer‘s paintings.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Linda Gass - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Linda-Gass-2017.jpg)
Linda Gass with her sumptuous painted silk textile pieces, Owens River Diversion and San Joaquin Merced Revival.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Marsha McDonald - Slough - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Marsha-McDonald-Slough-2017.jpg)
Marsha McDonald – Slough, one of many GIF videos of water.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Barbara A. Boissevain Photographs- 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Barbara-A.-Boissevain-Photographs-2017.jpg)
Barbara A. Boissevain aerial photographs of Bay Area salt ponds.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Barbara A. Boisssevain - Salt Pond Restoration Photo Grid - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Barbara-A.-Boisssevain-Salt-Pond-Restoration-Photo-Grid-2017.jpg)
Barbara A. Boisssevain – Salt Pond Restoration Photo Grid
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party -Matthew Chase-Daniel - Swanp South of Crescent City - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Matthew-Chase-Daniel-Swanp-South-of-Crescent-City-2017.jpg)
Matthew Chase-Daniel – Swamp South of Crescent City – photo assemblage.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - 2 - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-2-2017.jpg)
Nancy Genn‘s Patagonia series casein paintings on canvas.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Linda Simmel - Photopolymer intaglio - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Linda-Simmel-Photopolymer-intaglio-2017.jpg)
Linda Simmel photopolymer intaglio etchings, 75kts and 60kts.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Linda Simmel - The Book of Seas - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Linda-Simmel-The-Book-of-Seas-2017.jpg)
Linda Simmel – Book of Seas – gesso/pencil on gampi paper, steel binding.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Ryan Reynolds - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Ryan-Reynolds-2017.jpg)
Ryan Reynolds – Frogshead and Petaluma River – oil on panel.
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Klea McKenna - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Klea-McKenna-2017.jpg)
Klea McKenna Rainstorms & Rain Studies
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - Klea McKenna- Cry Me a River -2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-Klea-McKenna-Cry-Me-a-River-2017.jpg)
Klea McKenna
![Waterlines - NUMU - Preview Party - 3 - 2017](http://mariecameronstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Waterlines-NUMU-Preview-Party-3-2017.jpg)
Waterlines runs from October 6 – March 18. November 4th several Waterline artists will be present to talk about their work (including me) in conjunction with NUMU’s Winter Celebration. I hope you get a chance to see the exhibit in person because my photographs are not capturing the beauty of the work!