Today! Climate Change Art Action

[Robert Neustadt]

Today is the day!

 

The art installation, “What kind of world will we leave our youth,” that you and many of your students submitted photographs for is scheduled for install today, March 29, during the Climate Change Teach-in. 

 

We’ll begin sweeping and installing the portraits in front of the main entrance to the Du Bois Center around 9:30 am. We’ll continue installing them throughout the day as people arrive to help. The final push to complete the installation will be between 3:45-4:45 pm.  We need lots of help! This is a collective art action--it is meant to be a group activity and we’ll need many hands to brace against the prevailing winds of climate change.

 

So, please come and invite your students and friends to come help when they can! 

 

What kind of world will we leave our youth? We posed this question to students, faculty, and community members and they responded with these photographs. 

Each one of these photos represents someone from our community who is confronting this question. The photos stand as a silent presence of people from our community who are now posing this question to passersby, viewers, to other members of our community. What kind of world will we leave our youth? The answer to the question remains unanswered, and yet the question is urgent. We are inviting people to join our action and to help us bring these photos and the question into view. What kind of world will we leave our youth?

 

This action, initiated by Robert Neustadt & Shawn Skabelund, and implemented by a great number of students, faculty and community members, is in collaboration with Inside/Out: The People’s Art Project, and sponsored by the Frances B. McAllister Climate Education, Engagement, and Design Fellowship Program.

 

https://www.insideoutproject.net/en/explore/group-action/what-kind-of-planet-will-we-leave-our-youth