Climate Change (old guide)
Climate Change and Art
What role does art have in addressing climate change? Art can
- help us visualize the effects of climate change in both concrete and creative ways
- offer multiple perspectives, interpretations, and dialog on climate change
- allows us to explore different human responses and experiences
- engage people in threats posed by climate change
- explore the emotional impact of a swiftly changing planet
- make the invisible, or unimaginable, visible
Explore artists' responses to climate change
- "Artist and scientist install fake bakery storefront in Chicago to draw attention to climate change"From Yale Climate Connections.
- Artists and Climate Change: Building Earth ConnectionsRegularly updated blog attempting to track all of the artistic responses to climate change, including (but not limited to) visual arts, dance, books, and films.
- The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts: Artists and Climate ChangeThink Tank for Sustainability in the Arts and Culture, regularly updated.
- It’s time for a new age of Enlightenment: why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell its storyArticle in The Conversation, June 2016
Discusses the vital role artists can play in helping people to understand and relate to climate change and describes some of the projects that have either already been put in place or are underway. - Making Art and Environmental Activism One and the SameThe National Resources Defense Council has long sought alternative ways to connect to people about the need to preserve (and defend) our natural resources. Their unique collaborations with artists is one of their less traditional methods.
- Climate in Art & LiteratureBibliography of resources from Climate & Mind
- Additional ResourcesThe art world is busy! Additional links compiled by librarian Leora Troper.
PCCs Climate Grief Virtual Art Display
PCC's Climate Grief Interpreted Art Exhibit, arranged by ASPCC student leaders as part of the Climate Grief Committee. Spring term 2021. The virtual art display includes images, video, written word art and audio. Climate Grief: Interpret Art Exhibit
Climate change fiction
American War by Call Number: Sylvania Popular Collection ELAKKAD 2017Publication Date: https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/j0np4a/CP71254313330001451
The Bone Clocks by Call Number: Rock Creek Popular Collection MITCHEL 2014
The Overstory by Call Number: Rock Creek and Sylvania Popular Collection POWERS 2018
The Road by Call Number: Cascade and Southeast Libraries 813 MCCARTH 2006
Weather: a novel by Call Number: Southeast Popular Collection OFFILL 2020
The Windup Girl by Call Number: Cascade and Southeast Popular Collection BACIGAL 2010
The Year of the Flood by Call Number: Sylvania Library 813 ATWOOD 2010
- Five of the best climate-change novelsBook review article from The Guardian, 2017
Books and ebooks
Art Rethought by Call Number: onlinePublication Date: 2015-11-10Chapter 13 focuses on the social practice of art that is created to energize and give expression to protest against social injustice.
Thin Ice by Call Number: 305.897 S78t 2007Publication Date: 2007-02-28This book accompanies an important exhibition that opened on January 20, 2007, at the Hood Museum of Art, that was one of the first to explore the human dimensions of climate change in the Inuit concept and perception of the Arctic climate as part of their culture.
Rebel Rebels, 1979-1989 by Call Number: 745.4 S64r 2014Publication Date: 2014-09-30This book analyzes some of the activist art experiences born in New York between 1979 and 1989, when in response to a conservative political and cultural climate artists began to work in groups and to realize projects concretely addressed to the problems of society. While not directly about climate change, it does explore artists' responses to issues around social justice.
DVD and Streaming Video
Two indigenous poets - one from the Marshall Islands and another from Greenland - meet at the source of our rising seas to share a moment of solidarity.
24 Hours of Reality: "Earthrise" by Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. (4:30 minutes)
Communicating Climate Change Through Art: Kabarole Research and Resource Centre, Uganda “2012, the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre, along with private sector partners in Uganda, started to organise Annual Street Art Festivals on Climate Change in the town of Fort-Portal, profiling artists communicating about climate change.” https://www.iied.org/uganda-art-answer-communicating-about-climate-change
Films OnDemand: “This episode of The Green Interview features Franke James, a rabble-rousing artist, author, and activist who uses her art—a signature style of lively drawings mixed with photos and hand drawn text—and her written work to campaign for social and environmental justice.”
Andreco “Since 2000, he has been trying to find connections between art and science, symbolism, and environmental sustainability.”