With a focus on art and technology, DATMA organizes a yearly public art initiative in New Bedford. In 2020, MASARY studios created VESSELS, a visual and auditory experience celebrating the city’s fishing ships.

In the Swain Studio, easily seen through the windows of the Star Store building at the corner of Purchase and Union, there is a singular work by the Swiss artist Zimoun. It is part of DATMA’s  “Water 2021,” a series of water-themed free public art projects and programs.

DATMA’s Light 2020 Artists, MASARY Studios, has been selected by The 2021 Lumen Prize for the long-list in the “Moving Image Award” category for Vessels.

WGBH Arts Editor, Jared Bowen, takes audiences through Historic New Bedford while exploring DATMA’s three Water 2021 exhibitions.

Host of NewTV’s Museum Open House, Jay Sugarman, talks with Amanda Hawkins, Phil Mello, and Kevin Stokesbury, PhD. about DATMA’s Water 2021 public exhibitions and programming happening this summer in New Bedford, MA. 

DATMA exhibition floods New Bedford streets with aquatic and fishing-themed art 

Read article directly from SouthCoast Insider here (p. 6-9). Researchers prepare to drop a pyramid of cameras to the sea floor to capture the diverse ecosystem. Photos by SMAST on display as part of DATMA’s Water 2021 exhibition. In downtown New Bedford, an event longer-lasting than the above will begin on June 17, when for

Buoyance We, the people of New Bedford, Massachusetts, we the people: French Irish Norwegian Cape Verdean Portuguese Polish Italian Spanish Mayan  … we, the people, connected, blended, entwined are said to have salt water coursing through our veins. Salt water, our life blood. Awakened by the cries of congregating gulls and the tart aroma of

Poet, Geneva Gomes is a New Bedford Native. She crafted and performed “Water is We” for DATMA’s Water 2021 launch hosted by 3rd EyE Youth Empowerment on June 17th, 2021.

Read the article directly from Artscope Online here. TOP: Zimoun, “WATER 2021,”2011/2021, 280 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 13” x 13” x 13”, photo by Richard Gormley. BOTTOM LEFT: Craig Easton, Daiva, Filleter, Aberdeen, from the Fisherwomen Series. BOTTOM RIGHT: Hyung Sun Kim, Hyun Okran, Onpyeong Jeju, from the Haenyeo: Sea Women Series. All