RARE AIR

Book + National Touring Exhibition | 2020-2025

RARE AIR: Endangered Birds, Bats, Butterflies, and Bees is an illustrated book about diminishing flighted species and citizen science with writing by A. Scott Meiser. This title was published by Mountaineers Books in 2023 and was recognized as a finalist for Foreword’s INDIES 2023 Book of the Year in the Ecology and Environment category.

A nationally-touring companion exhibition, Sarah Kaizar: RARE AIR, features original gouache and ink artwork from the publication as well as playful interactive experiences to engage audiences of all ages with urgent issues in wildlife conservation. Exhibition commitments include the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (2023); the Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2023-2024); the Catalina Museum of Art and History in Avalon, California (2024); the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington (2024-2025); and the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, Florida (2025).

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RARE AIR exhibition at the Michener Art Museum, 2023. Installation includes specimens on loan from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Photo by Jessica Kourkounis.

Rare and Endangered Bees

Rusty Patched Bumblebee

Western Bumblebee

Crotch Bumblebee

American Bumblebee

Yellow Bumblebee

Variable Cuckoo Bumblebee

Morrison Bumblebee

Yellow-Banded Bumblebee

Obscure Bumblebee

(No Name) Bombus Fraternus

Suckley’s Cuckoo Bumblebee

Franklin’s Bumblebee

Live video feeds from the Cornell Lab of Orninthology were included in exhibition installations, bringing the outdoors in.

Rare and Endangered Birds

Ae’o - Hawaiian Stilt

Atlantic Puffin

’Akeke’e

Java Sparrow

Aplomado Falcon

Black Rail

Chestnut-Collared Longspur

Golden-Cheeked Warbler

Attwater’s Prairie Chicken

Red Cockaded Woodpecker

Ridgways Rail

Black Rosy Finch

Whooping Crane

Masked Bobwhite Quail

Least Bell’s Vireo

Long-Tailed Duck

Akohekohe - Crested-Honeycreeper

Yellow-Shouldered Blackbird

Tricolored Blackbird

Maui Alauahio

Mississippi Sandhill Crane

Laysan Duck

California Condor

Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow

Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow

Guadalupe Murrelet

Gunnison Grouse

Hawaiian Common Gallinule

Brown-Capped Rosy Finch

San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike

Evening Grosbeak

RARE AIR installation at the Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024. Photo by Chris Kapica.

Rare and Endangered Bats

Eastern Small-Footed Myotis

Gray Bat

Indiana Bat

Little Brown Bat

Florida Bonneted Bat

Tricolored Bat

RARE AIR exhibition at the Michener Art Museum, 2023. Installation includes projection of live video feeds of bird cams from the Cornell Lab of Orninthology. Photography by Jessica Kourkounis.

Rare and Endangered Butterflies

Behren's Silverspot Butterfly

Callippe Silverspot Butterfly

El Segundo Blue Butterfly

Laguna Mountain Skipper

Lotis Blue Butterfly

Myrtle's Silverspot Butterfly

Palo Verdes Blue Butterfly

Bartrams Hairstreak Butterfly

Florida Leafwing Butterfly

Miami Blue Butterfly

Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly

San Bruno Elfin Butterfly

RARE AIR exhibition at the Michener Art Museum, 2023. Installation includes specimens on loan from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Photo by Jessica Kourkounis.