Marilyn
S. Tennity Surfing Exhibit
Get ready to catch a wave! Come experience the thrill of surfing
when the Marilyn S. Tennity Surfing Exhibit opens in March 2008!
Visitors will walk under a 12-foot long, 9-foot high breaking wave
as they enter the exhibit and can watch "inside the wave"
footage filmed by George Greenough. The exhibit will also include
the camera and kneeboard George Greenough used to film The Innermost
Limits of Pure Fun and contest-winning surfboards used by local
surfing legends, including Tom Curren, Kim Mearig, and Bobby Martinez.
You can see how surfboards are made, what a wetsuit feels like,
and learn the surfing lingo that over the years has become part
of the English language.
The exhibit will feature footage of local surfers riding amazing
waves and the stories of many of Santa Barbara’s surf legends.
Visitors will be able to choose which of the oral histories they
want to view through an interactive touch-screen presentation. This
series of oral histories will feature interviews with local surfing
legends Tom Curren and Kim Mearig, and master surfboard craftsmen
Renny Yater and Al Merrick. Other segments will highlight the career
of filmmaker and surf innovator George Greenough and surfing pioneer
Gates Foss, the first person to surf Rincon. There is also a segment
on rising-star Bobby Martinez and interviews and footage of local
Groms (young surfers).
Visitors can climb up on a Dave Johnson custom designed surfboard,
and take a picture of themselves "hanging ten" in front
of a beautiful barrel wave photograph shot by David Pu'u, winner
of the 2003 Canon Image of the Year Award. Surfers can also leave
their thoughts on what surfing means to them, while reading the
words of some surfing legends.
You will want to visit again and again because we will be changing
out several exhibit panels. Keep your eyes open for upcoming announcements
about the exhibit’s opening! Surfs Up! Santa Barbara. |
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