Climate Stories
A showcase of student work from the Fall 2025 elective course, Climate Stories: Researching the Whole
Opening Reception: December 15 - 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Main Atrium Space, UWSA
Exhibtion on view: December 15, 2025 – January 9, 2026
In the Information Age, our understanding of climate change is shaped by a constant stream of statistics and data. Within this scientistic whirlwind, we often lose the humanistic dimension of our own stories, emotions, losses, fears, and hopes. The exhibited work is a record of these stories, rooted in the ground of a threatened Earth, our home. Combining evidence and experience, the exhibition explores climate change by materializing an impactful moment, ongoing reality, or future condition. Situated in the canon of contemporary climate art, the exhibition asks the viewer to imagine points of no return, reuse and revitalization, scarcity, and how messy solutions to the climate crisis can be. This is not a catalogue of facts or fixes, but a call for empathy in safeguarding our home and the systems that support it.
Each Climate Story evolved through five stages, beginning with a Seed, the primary evidence and frame of the story, extended into artistic practice through a chosen Method. The work took form through experiments with Medium and tested iteratively through Draft before ultimately Translated into a final artifact.