Gary Lopez - 60th Season Artist

Gary Lopez is a fine art astrophotographer, one of the first to explore astrophotography as a fine art. His images are included in private, corporate, and museum collections in the U.S. and Europe.
 
Gary is also a filmmaker and media entrepreneur. He has produced more than 40 documentary films and series, including television programs for Jacques Cousteau and his son, Jean-Michel Cousteau. His programs have been broadcast nationally in the United States, distributed throughout Europe and Asia, and have received many awards for excellence. In 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush cited one of Gary’s films, Voyage to Kure (Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures, PBS), as his inspiration for establishing the Northwestern Hawaiian Island Marine National Monument, one of the largest protected areas in the world (Los Angles Time, June 15, 2006).

Gary’s media company, Archipelago, was acquired by Harcourt Brace in 1993. In 2003 he founded and still serves as Chief Information Officer of the The NROC Project, a national non-profit foundation that has supported more than 12 million high school and college students. Dr. Lopez received his Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1981.