Marine Mammal Conservation Through the Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire, inform, and empower a broader international audience on issues affecting the survival of marine mammal species. Our hybrid art, science, and conservation projects bypass main stream media and go directly to the people via public space exhibitions internationally and through the World Wide Web. Our target audiences are those who have yet to be moved by these creatures and their plight, specifically children and adults living in nations that continue to hunt these animals.

Modern whales possess the largest and most complex brains ever to exist on Earth. They have been in existence in their present form for nine to thirty million years. Yet despite our scientific and technological advances, their nine to thirty million years of evolving communication and culture continue to defy our understanding.

Within the span of less than three human generations we've reduced most whale populations to two percent of their original size. And it is in our life-time that we are witnessing the first cetacean extinctions to occur in human history. It is a sobering awareness of being alive to witness fifty million years of evolution ending in our life-time. Less than one millionth of one percent of the human population will swim with these creatures in the wild and experience the full profound effect of their presence on the soul. MMCTA seeks to heal this rift between humanity and whales.