In the Media
Press, features, and festival announcements following the Orcar from the workshop floor to the summer festival circuit.
Canada's National ObserverAugust 17, 2026The Orcar is turning heads and changing minds about our relationship with nature
An opinion piece on what a travelling sculpture can do that an argument can't: twenty-four feet of steel, light and intention, deliberately out of place on top of an old diesel truck. It counts more than 15,000 people who have met the Orcar so far, and makes the case that climbing inside it with strangers — finding wonder together — is its own kind of environmentalism.
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Happy Eco NewsJuly 22, 2026From Car to Orca: A Community Transforms Emissions into Art
Aaron Rosenberg's own account of the build: thirty people in Squamish turning an old diesel truck into an illuminated orca named for Granny, the Southern Resident matriarch. Written for an international good-news environmental audience, it makes the case for repurposing machines of consumption into tools for regeneration.
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Ocean WiseJuly 21, 2026I Helped Build a Whale Out of a Truck. Here's Why
A first-person piece by Sam Morassutti, written as an Ocean Action Grant recipient, on what it was like to be one of the thirty volunteers. It connects the sculpture directly to its subject — how diesel emissions from vehicles and ships bear on the survival of the critically endangered Southern Residents.
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604 NowJuly 4, 2026People in Squamish are building an orca whale from a truck
604 Now brought the Orcar to a wider Lower Mainland audience — part art installation, part conservation message, part community-built tribute to Granny (J2), supported by Ocean Wise's Ocean Action Grant and fresh from its debut at Otherworld.
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The Squamish ChiefJune 2026Squamish’s Create Makerspace to showcase culmination of 10-week public art program
A look inside the Create Public Art program as it wraps up — ~40 community members of every skill level building large-scale works for the summer festival circuit, led by the Orcar: a steel orca on a decommissioned truck, wrapped in 7,000 LEDs and built to climb inside. Also syndicated by the Penticton Herald.
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The Wire · Tourism SquamishJune 2026Member spotlight: Create Makerspace and the Orcar
Tourism Squamish's member newsletter features Create Makerspace and the group of 30 artists behind the Orcar — an illuminated orca sculpture on a decommissioned truck, fresh from its festival debut on Vancouver Island, raising awareness of the endangered Southern Residents.
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Bass Coast Festival2026 LineupOrcar selected for the 2026 interactive art program
The Orcar joins Bass Coast’s 2026 interactive art lineup — a walkable, glowing orca taking its conservation message from the waters of Howe Sound to the festival fields of Merritt, BC.
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