New York: Exterior view of the Climate Museum in Manhattan. (Photo by Christina Horsten/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Prism reporter ray levy uyeda writes about how art institutions in the US are using art to address environmental injustices and mobilize climate action. Uyeda writes about the museum and our Creosote Stories exhibit:
"What justice can look like—if it ever comes—was the subject of 'Creosote Stories: Seeding Planthroposcenes in Northeast Houston,' a recent art exhibition at the Houston Climate Justice Museum and Cultural Center (HCJM). The exhibition included framed photographs of creosote workers from the 1940s and oral histories curated by the artist, Willow Naomi Curry.
'In terms of looking at archives and the ways in which museums and cultural institutions are approaching climate change, there are a lot of contradictions inherent to that,' Curry said. 'A really key question [is] how do you go between these massive data architecture pieces and these really intense personal emotional stories? How do you put those together in a way that is transformative for people who experience it?'”
Read the rest of the article on the Prism website, or download the pdf here.
