Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful article. My hope is that it is widely shared. I believe the arts are the answer for myriad problems—especially changing perspectives on climate and climate change! I is so thrilling to see all these developments all in one place. Thanks again1
Thanks for the great analysis, Robert. At The Story Group (http://www.thestorygroup.org), we’ve been practicing what you preach – telling the stories of everyday Americans who live and work with the effects of climate change. We’re still in the process of personalizing the 2014 National Climate Assessment, taking dense scientific findings and bringing them down to ground-level through video stories of people experiencing the climate changes supported by the science. I’m pleased to see we may have chosen an effective path.
Dear Paulette: Thank you for your kind words. I am so glad the piece resonated with you!
And Ted: Thank you for sharing The Story Group’s work, and all it does to leverage the power of stories and voices to make climate change tangle. I’m inspired! I look forward to seeing your work to augment the 2014 National Climate Assessment.
Hello! Thanks for the article. I feel compelled to note that Allan Kaprow is the person behind the “blurring of art and life,” not Claire Bishop - an important distinction.
Nancy: Thank you for bringing Allan Kaprow’s work in this space to the fore. At the time of reading Bishop’s “Artificial Hells,” for which I have much respect, I wasn’t aware that this notion (as it appears on pages 27, 130, 138) originated elsewhere. Thank you for the clarification, and for the nod toward key future reading!
Fantastic article about art + climate change! I hope it has some impact on the climate science field. I think one of the most effective such projects is Eve Mosher’s “Highwater Line” http://highwaterline.org Also, since I follow “art + environmental/ecological” projects, EcoArtsScotland is doing great work with their “SOIL” project [they’re helping communities value peat and grasslands for their value as “carbon sinks”]. My organization is currently developing a project, “NOW! We Sea” (NWS) about art + ocean health. We believe the arts can play critical role in shifting public perception of its relationship to our global ocean, the first-step towards civic engagement. NWS embraces visual, audio, and performative art crafted from the artist’s deep concern about environmental degradation and is well-informed by the current science. Would welcome any feedback from this community.
COMMENTS
BY Paulette Lynch
ON March 19, 2015 12:39 PM
Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful article. My hope is that it is widely shared. I believe the arts are the answer for myriad problems—especially changing perspectives on climate and climate change! I is so thrilling to see all these developments all in one place. Thanks again1
BY Ted Wood
ON March 19, 2015 01:31 PM
Thanks for the great analysis, Robert. At The Story Group (http://www.thestorygroup.org), we’ve been practicing what you preach – telling the stories of everyday Americans who live and work with the effects of climate change. We’re still in the process of personalizing the 2014 National Climate Assessment, taking dense scientific findings and bringing them down to ground-level through video stories of people experiencing the climate changes supported by the science. I’m pleased to see we may have chosen an effective path.
BY Rob Sassor
ON March 19, 2015 06:13 PM
Dear Paulette: Thank you for your kind words. I am so glad the piece resonated with you!
And Ted: Thank you for sharing The Story Group’s work, and all it does to leverage the power of stories and voices to make climate change tangle. I’m inspired! I look forward to seeing your work to augment the 2014 National Climate Assessment.
BY Nancy Zastudil
ON March 27, 2015 07:14 AM
Hello! Thanks for the article. I feel compelled to note that Allan Kaprow is the person behind the “blurring of art and life,” not Claire Bishop - an important distinction.
BY Rob Sassor
ON March 28, 2015 02:15 PM
Nancy: Thank you for bringing Allan Kaprow’s work in this space to the fore. At the time of reading Bishop’s “Artificial Hells,” for which I have much respect, I wasn’t aware that this notion (as it appears on pages 27, 130, 138) originated elsewhere. Thank you for the clarification, and for the nod toward key future reading!
BY Cynthia Pannucci
ON April 5, 2015 11:25 AM
Fantastic article about art + climate change! I hope it has some impact on the climate science field. I think one of the most effective such projects is Eve Mosher’s “Highwater Line” http://highwaterline.org Also, since I follow “art + environmental/ecological” projects, EcoArtsScotland is doing great work with their “SOIL” project [they’re helping communities value peat and grasslands for their value as “carbon sinks”]. My organization is currently developing a project, “NOW! We Sea” (NWS) about art + ocean health. We believe the arts can play critical role in shifting public perception of its relationship to our global ocean, the first-step towards civic engagement. NWS embraces visual, audio, and performative art crafted from the artist’s deep concern about environmental degradation and is well-informed by the current science. Would welcome any feedback from this community.