Projects completed by Ali with Alumni Exhibits include:

Yosemite Valley National Park, California

Yosemite Valley Visitor Center Painted and installed 13 murals and 10 cut-out figures, fabricated and installed artificial pine and oak branches.

Kings Canyon National Park, California

Grant Grove Visitor Center Painted and installed three murals depicting ecosystems of Kings Canyon National Park.

Eagle Point, Oregon

Harnish Visitor Center Created life size wildlife sculptures of an eagle, beaver, and salmon, painted eight murals depicting local riparian and aquatic life, native American history, and history of the town.

Point Reyes National Seashore, California

Bear Valley Visitor Center Painted new mural, built new tidepool exhibit, replaced all old foliage on pine and fir tree with artificial foliage, fabricated,refurbished, and installed plants for exhibits, fabricated and installed coho salmon

Berkeley, California

Tilden Park Environmental Education Center Painted a 60' mural of the local willow thicket habitat, two murals representing the local wildflower display and grasslands habitat. Sculpted a woodrat and California newt.

Petaluma, California

Point Reyes Bird Observatory Sculpted and installed five Caspian terns.

Alameda, California

Crab Cove Visitor Center Painted a mural and 3-D exhibitry depicting the local bay waters from below.

Palo Alto, California

Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center painted mural of marsh wildlife, built small mudflat with artificial pickleweed and chordgrass.

Ojai, California

Ojai Museum Designed, built, and installed a large walk-in diorama featuring the rocky terrain, plants, and animals of the Sespe Wilderness.

Sunol, California

Sunol Visitor Center Painted an educational panel depicting the plants and animals living in the headwaters of Alameda Creek, Sunol Regional Wilderness.

Ali's works from 1990-2000 while working as Team Leader of murals at Academy Studios in Novato, California include:

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Team Leader for design, execution, and installation of 27 murals for dioramas depicting the wild habitats of North Carolina, including the Mountain Cove, Cretaceous, and Bottomlands murals.

Argentina

Peninsula Valdez Visitor Center Biodiversity mural.

Mexico City

Papalote Museum Designed habitats and exhibitry for the natural history wing, collected references and photographs in the field, painted murals and supervised installation crew.

Taiwan

Taiwan Museum of Natural Sciences Designed and painted murals, installed exhibitry for natural history wing.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Museum of Natural History Designed and illustrated habitats.

Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Painted murals for the Atlantic Kelp Forest Exhibit.

Seattle

Burke Museum of Natural History Murals of habitats, dinosaur reconstructions, and murals illustrating natural history and field guide information.

Discovery Park Murals and interactives depicting natural history elements of the park.

U.S. National Parks

Yosemite Happy Isles Interpretive Center Mural of Vernal Falls by moonlight.

North Cascades Visitor Center Co-designed and fabricated natural history elements for award winning interactive exhibits.

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Fabricated and installed 3-D biological elements for the insect hall (excluding insects).

Washington

Tacoma History Museum Executed murals depicting depression era Seattle (Hooverville) and various historic encounters between Native Americans and European explorers.

Ali Pearson holds a Bachelors degree from Colorado College and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She began her career as a museum artist/preparator by taking a volunteer position at the California Academy of Sciences and has had a lifelong interest and involvement in the study and preservation of nature.