Follow the links below to learn more about organizations dedicated to exploring the intersection of arts & climate change.
ACT – Artists Citizens on Tour
ACT’s objectives are: to make artists realize the power of their actions towards the environment; to offer simple and efficient tools to reduce the environmental footprint that shows and touring create; and to accompany artists wishing to become accredited in order to make their commitment recognized, and inspire their audience.
Activate
Activate is an arts organization dedicated to activating both the contribution and the participation of the arts and of people in our wider community. As the role and the function of creativity and engagement expands in today’s world, their objective is to bring together people from both the art and non-art worlds.
Art Aia – Creatives In Residence (Italy)
Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence is a former agricultural center turned into an international art residency in the Italian province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that combines artistic production and research, and environmental sustainability.
Art Climate Transition
ACT is a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change, and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, mass extinction and growing inequalities, they connect broad perspectives with specific, localized possibilities.
Art Works for Change
Art Works for Change strives to harness the transformative power of art to promote awareness, provoke dialogue, and inspire action. They seek to address issues of serious concern – human rights, social justice, gender equity, environmental stewardship and sustainability – in creative, inspiring, and ultimately positive ways.
Artists Project Earth
Artists Project Earth aims to create a better world by bringing the power of music and the arts to 21st century challenges. They support projects and awareness raising initiatives to combat climate change, protect marine life, and raise funds for natural disaster relief.
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
ASLE is where slow thinking meets swift action. They study, write, compose and create because they care about issues like biodiversity, environmental justice, survival in a time of endemic precarity and global catastrophe, and the effects of climate change on humans and nonhumans alike.
Bimblebox Art Project (Australia)
The Bimblebox Art Project aims to creatively engage with and to document the Bimblebox Nature Refuge which is under threat from coal mining. Art/science/nature camps, exhibitions, writing, music and academic research have been some of the outcomes of this project.
Biosphere Soundscapes (Australia)
Biosphere Soundscapes is a large-scale interdisciplinary research project underpinned by the creative possibilities of acoustic ecology and rapidly emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound.
Cape Farewell (UK)
Cape Farewell brings creatives, scientists and informers together internationally to stimulate a cultural narrative that will engage and inspire a sustainable and vibrant future society. Using creativity to innovate, they engage artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge.
Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts is a Think Tank for Sustainability in the Arts and Culture. Their activities include research and initiatives positioning arts and culture as a driver of a sustainable society.
City As Living Laboratory
CALL’s mission is to increase awareness and action around environmental challenges through the arts, and to foster public understanding of the natural systems and infrastructure that support life in the city.
Climarte (Australia)
Climarte brings together a large alliance of arts organizations, practitioners, administrators, patrons and academics from across the spectrum of the arts. Their aim is is to create a strong arts voice to join with other concerned citizens in calling for immediate, effective and creative action to secure a safe future for humankind and for all life on Earth.
Climate Acts
Climate Acts works in collaboration with artists, educational institutions and communities to bring together art, science and strategies that create participatory and public art works of integrity, surprise and impact.
Climate Museum (US)
The Climate Museum inspires action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions. Mobilizing the popularity and trust held by museums, they bring people together to learn and to join the fight for a brighter future.
Climate Museum UK
Climate Museum UK is a mobile and digital museum creatively stirring and collecting responses to the Climate and Ecological Emergency. They produce and gather art, objects, ideas, games and books, and then use these to activate people.
ClimateCultures (UK)
ClimateCultures is a forum for artists, researchers and curators to have creative conversations about how arts and culture can help us understand our changing climate. Rather than offering straight forward solutions they are a site for finding ways through the tangle of questions.
Climate Stories Project
Climate Stories Project is an educational and artistic forum for sharing stories about personal and community responses to climate change. They focus on personal oral histories, which bring an immediacy to the sometimes abstract nature of climate change communication.
Climate Visuals
Based on international social research, Climate Visuals provides seven principles for a more diverse, relatable and compelling visual language for climate change. Their website contains a growing library of photographs to provide inspiration and guidance for campaigners, picture editors and communications practitioners selecting imagery for communicating climate change.
Climate Wisconsin
Climate Wisconsin is an educational multimedia project that features stories of climate change from a rapidly changing state. They encourage communities to share their stories surrounding this topic so they can support teaching and learning about climate change in Wisconsin.
Creative Carbon Scotland
Creative Carbon Scotland works with artists and individuals, cultural and sustainability organizations, funders and policy makers, connecting them to the change process and exploring how the cultural sector can contribute to resist climate change. They provide Scottish arts organizations with training in carbon measurement, reporting and reduction, and are now focusing on exploring the sector’s (arts and culture) role in transforming our society to address climate change.
Curating Cities
The Curating Cities Database maps the increasingly important and emerging field of eco-sustainable public art. It is developed as a resource for researchers, academics, artists, curators, educators, commissioning agencies and sponsors working in the field as well as those interested in promoting sustainability via public art.
Dear Climate
Dear Climate is a collection of agitprop posters and meditative audio experiences that help people meet, befriend, and become climate change.
DearTomorrow
DearTomorrow is a global climate storytelling project where people write climate messages to loved ones living in the future. Messages are shared on the website and through media, social media, community events, and public art to inspire deep thinking and bold action on climate.
Do The Green Thing
Do The Green Thing wants to make sustainable choices as desirable as unsustainable ones through compelling creative that is researched thoroughly, argued originally and made vivid through illustrations, films and campaigns .
Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a place to connect authors, publishers, readers, academics, and journalists who explore the nature and wild in literature. They provide eco-literature resources and offer a platform to promote work.
Earth Celebrations
Earth Celebrations is dedicated to engaging communities to affect ecological and social issues through the arts. They address a broad variety of climate change issues through programs that include theatrical pageants, exhibitions, performances, art workshops, and more.
Ecoartspace
Ecoartspace has served as a platform for artists addressing environmental issues since 1999. Artists, scientists, students, advocates, professionals, galleries and institutions who are concerned about the natural world are invited to join.
Eco Arts Foundation
Eco Arts Foundation’s mission is to inspire ecological regeneration through the arts. By celebrating artists that are producing socially-responsible content, they aim to provoke audiences – policymakers, consumers, scientists, and the general public – to adopt lifestyles and policies that maintain a vibrant, thriving life on this planet.
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss
EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all of its forms (from mining and drilling to the reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources).
Extreme Ice Survey
Extreme Ice Survey is a long-term photography program that integrates art and science to give a “visual voice” to the planet’s changing ecosystems. They believe that the creative integration of art and science can shape public perception and inspire action more effectively than either art or science can on their own.
Fernland Studios
Fernland Studios is a space for rest and joy among people sharing collective ideas, histories, futures, and dreams while respecting the individual experiences guiding us through life. They offer opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color to care for our communities and landscapes in tandem through art and education.
Fossil Free Culture NL (The Netherlands)
Fossil Free Culture NL is an artist collective that challenges the relationships between public cultural institutions and fossil fuel companies through artistic performances, research and campaigning efforts. They want to build a movement in the arts and culture sector that persuades cultural institutions to drop such sponsorships.
Future Materials Bank
The Future Materials Bank is a meeting place of materials for artists, that proposes non-toxic, biodegradable or otherwise sustainable alternative materials. It has been initiated by the Nature Research department at the Jan van Eyck Academie, in collaboration with the MA Materials Futures at Central St Martins in London.
Globaïa
Globaïa is a non-profit NGO fostering planetary awareness, by promoting a science-based, transdisciplinary and unified understanding on the great socio-ecological issues of our time. Merging art and science they create new ways to visualize our interconnected world and the ever evolving relationship between human societies, living environments, planet Earth and beyond.
Green Art Lab Alliance (Europe, Asia, Latin-America)
The Green Art Lab Alliance is a partnership between 45 art organizations contributing to environmental sustainability through their creative practice. The alliance was established in 2012 as a way to amplify the voices of artists and art organisations responding to various social and environmental issues. They act as a ‘knowledge alliance’; strategically sharing resources, information and solidarity between the partners and their communities.
Green Europe Experience
GEX is a living lab based on co-creation, mentoring, skills building between four major music and arts festivals, two NGOs and their teams. It focuses on two major topics in a festival’s production: scenography & food.
Green Kids, Inc.
Green Kids Inc. is a live theatre company dedicated to environmental education through performance. Their mission is to educate children, teachers, and families on environmental issues and inspire them to be tomorrow’s leaders by taking positive action towards protecting our environment.
Green Music Australia
Green Music Australia is harnessing the cultural power of music and musicians to lead the way to a greener world. It provides tools, case studies, encouragement and hands on support, partnering with others across the sector to help musicians reduce their environmental impact.
Hip Hop Caucus
Hip Hop Caucus promotes political activism and environmental justice through the galvanizing power of hip hop and culture. They empower communities impacted first and worst by injustice, and link culture and policy to make their movements bigger, more diverse, and more powerful.
Human Nature (UK)
Human Nature promotes and develops art and artists who are undertaking the task of interpreting the modern world’s confrontational relationship with nature. They seek out business and organizational partners who are looking to work with artists to develop projects and events that have a positive impact.
Inside the Greenhouse
Inside the Greenhouse is a collective of professors, students, scholars, practitioners who are committed to creative framing and storytelling of issues surrounding climate change through video, theatre, dance, and writing, to connect a wider audience to the deep and pressing need to address climate change .
Invisible Dust
Invisible Dust works with leading artists and scientists to produce unique and exciting works of contemporary art and new scientific ideas exploring our environment and climate change. The mission of Invisible Dust is to encourage awareness of, and meaningful responses to, climate change and environmental issues.
Julie’s Bicycle (UK)
Climate change is a cultural challenge that requires urgent action. Julie’s Bicycle inspires and enables the cultural sector to lead a collective response towards a low-carbon economy.
Ki Culture
Ki Culture is an international nonprofit working to unite culture and sustainability. They provide programs and tools to make culture sustainable and position the sector as leaders for sustainability globally. They break down current models and silos and work holistically to make sustainability achievable and sustainable.
Kinnari Ecological Theatre Project (Southeast Asia)
The Kinnari Ecological Theater Project stages new plays based on local legend in Southeast Asia that highlight current environmental issues. They create, rehearse, and present the play in the local language incorporating local songs, dances, puppetry, and traditional theatre styles to address a particular ecological problem chosen by the participants.
Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies
The Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) is an incubator for new research and collaboration on storytelling, communications, and media in the service of environmental conservation and equity. They are a diverse network of faculty and students from across disciplines who explore how today’s environmental challenges connect to longer histories of imagining the natural world.
Land Art Generator Initiative
The Land Art Generator provides a platform for artists, architects, landscape architects, and other creatives working with engineers and scientists to bring forward human-centered solutions for sustainable energy infrastructures that enhance the city as works of public art while cleanly powering thousands of homes.
Liberate Tate (UK)
Liberate Tate is a network of artists dedicated to taking creative disobedience against the Tate Museum until it drops its oil company funding.
Living Data
Living Data are responses to our changing world that are: clear in language, appealing to the senses, and true to science. They reflect Indigenous, biological and mechanistic views of the natural world forming through relationships between parts, and ourselves as part of that forming process.
Mustarinda (Finland)
The Mustarinda Association is comprised of a group of artists and researchers whose goal is to promote the ecological rebuilding of society, the diversity of culture and nature, and the connection between art and science.
Our Climate Voices
Our Climate Voices is an emerging anthology of stories that amplifies first-person climate change narratives. Their mission is to contribute to a shift in climate change dialogue that puts the voices of those most impacted at the forefront of the conversation.
Platform (UK)
Platform combines art, activism, education, and research in one organization. Their current campaigns focus on the social, economic and environmental impacts of the global oil industry.
Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education
Rowanbank is an Environmental Arts & Education social enterprise, that creates magical outdoor experiences. From shows in urban woodlands and remote beaches to climate change workshops in schools. They produce innovative family-friendly events, workshops and performances that inspire and delight audiences throughout the UK and beyond.
Symbio(s)cene
Symbio(s)cene is a nonprofit initiative that interconnects sciences and arts – giving space to both cognitive and emotional dimensions of knowledge – in order to foster sustainable human-nature relationships and thus open up new perspectives for a livable future for all living beings.
Superhero Clubhouse
Superhero Clubhouse is a New York-based community of artists, scientists, and environmental professionals invested in a long-term experiment to understand how theater can help shift consciousness in the face of global climate change.
The Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is a place where art intersects science, architecture, education, and activism. They foster thought and experimentation for artists and innovators who seek out areas of collaboration to engage with the central issues of our time.
The Climate Museum
The Climate Museum will be a public space where we can gather to learn about climate change, face our fears, share solutions, and commit to change. It will serve as a hub for education, leadership, and civic engagement, bringing people together to move toward climate solutions.
The ClimateMusic Project
Combining the talents and expertise of world class scientists, composers, musicians, artists, and technology visionaries, the ClimateMusic Project enables the creation and staging of science-guided music and visual experiences to inspire people to engage actively on the issue of climate change.
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination exists somewhere between art and activism, poetry and politics. Their experiments aim not to make art but to shape reality, not to show people the world but to change it together.
Tierra Sol Art & Resiliency Institute
Tierra Sol commissions and curates resiliency inspired productions, research and community engagement. They activate new ideas, conversations, and transformative experiences across science and culture, engaging people with visions of a beautiful post-carbon future.
Women Eco Artists Dialogue
WEAD is is a pioneering network of feminist eco-artists, educators, curators, and writers working toward the goal of a just and healthy world. They focus on women’s unique perspective in ecological and social justice art.