FEMA Climate Resiliency, Photography and Storytelling Exhibition
June 28-July 28, 2024
In collaboration with FEMA Region 8, Resilience Action Partners, SW Gallery & Science Center, Ogden Contemporary Arts, and RedLine Contemporary Art Center.
About the FEMA ArtWorks Climate Resiliency, Photography and Storytelling Exhibition
This exhibition presents works from artists investigating and sharing the stories of communities and lands that are adapting to a changing climate.
From sublime foreshadowing to documentation of the real ways natural hazards affect our lives; artists shine a light on resilient communities and their stories of loss, adaptation, mitigation, and restoration.
Roaring Fork Valley-based artist Tamara Susa’s photographs utilize different times of exposure to underscore that climate change happens continuously and overtime; and though it may not be captured in a single series of photographs, it is omnipresent and we are all connected to the change.
Denver-based artist Bill Nelson’s “Fragile” brings into frame the vulnerable lands to grab our attention. As we gaze through his steel viewfinder, we are encouraged to meditate on our role as stewards of the environment.
Colorado artist Emilie Upczak’s film “Silt” invites us into personal and poetic methods of adaptation and resilience by highlighting familial, ancestral and contemporary strategies of responding, processing and grieving that which seems beyond our control, but necessary to face.
Warm Cookies of the Revolutions’ Community Almanac Project explores wisdom passed down through generations in the community, focusing on a different social/civic issue in each volume. Volume 2 of our Community Almanac focuses on Climate & Trunk: A collection of wisdom/art/music/celebration from the Denver community dedicated to solutions to the climate crisis and grounding our work with each other.
Exhibition Locations and Dates
RedLine Contemporary Art Center - Denver, CO
June 28-July 28, 2024
SW Art Gallery and Science Center - Dickinson, ND
August 2-August 30, 2024
Ogden Contemporary Arts - Ogden, UT
August 9-October 13, 2024
About FEMA ArtWorks
ArtWorks is a FEMA program that connects the arts with hazard mitigation. This is part of FEMA’s Region 8, which includes Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 29 Tribal Nations.
The goal is to help communities grow more aware and able to protect themselves from natural risks, such as floods, wildfire, drought, and climate change. The program reframes conversations on how to reduce hazard risks before disasters. Its tools are creative, emotional, sensory and community-oriented interpretations through the arts. Climate resilience photography and storytelling is the focus.
The ArtWorks team wants to highlight climate resilience across the diverse range of FEMA Region 8 communities, tribal nations, and individuals. A changing climate impacts us daily. We hope this call for art will help us see how people and communities adapt to and overcome these impacts.
FEMA knows that socially vulnerable communities bear the brunt of effects from climate change and are more likely to be impacted by the associated extreme weather events. For this reason, we are particularly interested in submissions that reflect the resilience in socially vulnerable communities.
Got Questions About the FEMA ArtWorks Program?
Please direct any comments or questions to FEMA-ArtWorks@fema.dhs.gov
