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Can art illustrating climate change’s effects shape policy?
There’s no shortage of powerful images and video when it comes to natural disasters like wildfires and melting glaciers. But a pair of artists are now using those images in new ways, as part of their mission to warn people about climate change and its devastating impact on familiar landscapes. Miles O’Brien takes a different…
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How Climate Changes Art
The Art Assignment tackles the intersection of art and our changing climate in this video. Throughout history, art has helped reveal the climate around us and highlight our fragile relationship to it. We look at navigational charts from the Marshall Islands, Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Wave off Kanagawa”, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Hunters in the…
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12 Inspiring Works of Art on Plastic Pollution
Can art inspire action to stop plastic pollution? Explore these twelve works that put the spotlight on single-use plastic in this article. https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/pft/2017/5/2/10-inspiring-works-of-art-about-plastic-pollution
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Community Voices: Ethyl the Whale
The 82-foot-long blue whale sculpture is made from hand-recycled plastic trash and is also internally lit to glow each evening. Ethyl’s dramatic size and name, help bring awareness to our planet’s massive issue with plastic pollution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enf4ailMTrc
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Ghost Net Art as Environmental Activism
Watch as artists from Darnley Island tell us why they use ghost net (discarded plastic fishing nets) in their art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAh0zvAiiY
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Hunting For Ghost Gear: What Happens When Fishing Nets Go Rogue | NBC News
Marine life is battling an unexpected enemy, lost fishing gear, also known as ghost gear. 705,000 tons of fishing gear are lost in the ocean every year. Mike Neill and his crew are trying to change that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69x4rRN7X3w
