During a weeklong residency at the museum, Alberto presented a video briefly describing his past work and its connection to the region. The video also outlined the influence of the Atlantic cod's influence on the economy on the Northeast. Along with the video, he also exhibited sketchbooks, color studies and photographs used to create his paintings. paintings and examples of his work. The video created background information for the eight-foot painting he created of an Atlantic cod. He also presented daily drawing and painting workshops that incorporated objects from the museum's collections and fish species that were indigenous to specific regions of the United States.

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Alberto was asked by the CRAG Law Center, a law center that supports efforts to protect and sustain the Pacific Northwest's natural legacy, to work with them in locating and documenting the threatened bulltrout of the Cascade Range. During a six-day residency, Alberto explored several rivers with regional experts and were successful in documenting two examples of the species. Alberto returned to western New York where he used his references from the trip to produced a painting for the CRAG’s publication purposes.  

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Alberto traveled to UVa to work on a residency that brought together the efforts of community and conservation groups, private/public educational programs and university students and staff to create a series of one-of-a-kind illustrated books. The books reflected the images ( flowers, insects, fish, etc.) remembered or documented from educational field trips to a local stream that was home to an endangered brook trout species.

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In conjunction with a traveling solo exhibition, Alberto presented a series of lectures at the college and at a regional high school outlining the his thoughts and concerns found in his artwork. He also presented a week-long workshop to visual arts college students. The workshop explored the possibilities of created large-scale drawing that depicted the student's personal objects as a way to create metaphorical self-portraits.