Coast Guard Art Program – 2023
The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) uses fine art as an outreach tool for educating diverse audiences about the Coast Guard. View the 2022 Collection.
6 Feet Below the Waves
6 Feet Below The Waves An Underwater Graveyard Shipwrecks have always been a topic of intrigue and fascination by people across the world. James Cameron’s Titanic, HBO’s the Terror, and Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Franchise to name a few. Blockbusters and TV shows have given the lore and the horror of sinking ships, the…
2022 Coast Guard Art
The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) uses fine art as an outreach tool for educating diverse audiences about the Coast Guard. View the 2022 Collection.
The Houston Ship Channel
The ship channel covers a huge part of Eastern Houston, stretching from nearly downtown, to the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston. The channel is 530 feet wide by 45 feet deep, allowing ships to pass one another, but with as much traffic as Houston receives, the port is currently being widened in what’s called Project 11,…
2021 Coast Guard Art
2021 Coast Guard Art Program About the Coast Guard Art Program The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) uses fine art as an outreach tool for educating diverse audiences about the Coast Guard. Today, more than ever, the Service addresses an abundance of challenges as it works to maintain the nation’s security at home and abroad…
Amphora
Our amphora dates back to around 300 BCE and is one of the first examples of containerization.
Maritime Traffic
Houston plays a small, but significant role in a massive global shipping and transit system that moves many tons of cargo all over the world. This industrial feet of organization requires entities to share a huge amount of data with one another to ensure on time delivery, avoid collisions, share ever-changing information about the oceans…
Houston Ship Channel 101
The Houston Ship Channel accounts for over 16% of the total GDP for the state of Texas. That is a HUGE economic impact that many Houstonians are completely unaware of. The ship channel stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the edge of the 610 loop, bringing millions of tons of cargo into the country…
2020 Coast Guard Art
2020 Coast Guard Art Program About the Coast Guard Art Program The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) uses fine art as an outreach tool for educating diverse audiences about the Coast Guard. Today, more than ever, the Service addresses an abundance of challenges as it works to maintain the nation’s security at home and abroad…
2019 Coast Guard Art
2019 Coast Guard Art Program The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) uses fine art as an outreach tool for educating diverse audiences about the United States Coast Guard. Through displays at museums, libraries and patriotic events, Coast Guard art tells the story of the service’s missions, heroes and history to the public. Art is also…