Eco-Anxiety & Climate Grief Artist Residency
We were so excited to partner with Our Climate Voices (OCV) — a creative collective of young women, queer folks, BIPOC, and disabled people working to humanize the climate crisis with ethical storytelling for radical change — to support their Eco Anxiety and Climate Grief Artist Residency program.
In this six-month virtual residency, young artists (ages 15-18) from diverse backgrounds worked together with Program Manager Chelsea Call, who is an artist and certified art therapist, as well as several guest facilitators. Residents Carmen Allison, Paola Arraut, Hal Hedinger, Suhaavi Kaur, and Taylor Yingshi created a variety of visual artworks that directly respond to feelings of grief and anxiety surrounding the climate crisis.
The program culminated in an online exhibition on November 20, 2021, where each artist had the opportunity to share several works that emerged over the course of the residency and offer insight into their creative processes as young artists in the climate justice movement. We were excited to help share these thoughtful and powerful works, which convey the emotional depth of the crisis while also pointing toward creative and hopeful visions of the future.
Art has been proven to be an effective way to deal with anxiety and depression about the climate crisis, and we believe more young people should have the opportunity to process their feelings about growing up in a warming and damaged world. We hope this project can serve as a model for how to transform justified fear, anger, and grief into creative and liberatory action.
Learn more about our Sustainable Visions program here!