Julie Daser (Manhattan, New York) is deeply interested transforming data from cold and clinical to emotionally resonate and moving. Flooded House is an interactive installation exploring the impact of personal accountability in creating sustainable actions. “Through my project,” Daser explains, “I underscore the lack of responsibility among high-income countries in addressing climate change.”
Read MoreKavya Bhat (Queens, New York) was originally inspired by 2023 winner Ellen Chen (Rye, New York) and created Up Close, a diptych of two interconnected, yet opposite, climate futures. “Both long for something the other has,” Bhat states, “and yet both are suffering.”
Read MoreRuby Hutcheson (Tallahassee, Florida) began Mother Nature with a handmade bodysuit constructed from trash and detritus that she collected from the roadside on my walks home from school. The resulting visceral photographs convey “the emotions of sadness and disgust that I think we should feel about the way we have treated our planet.”
Read MoreIsabella Campos (Winter Springs, Florida) depicts coral reefs transitioning from vibrant and healthy to bleached and dying in Changing Corals, a large sculpture meticulously created solely through manipulating paper.
Read More“Through this series of images, I explore what nature looks like in the age of post-industrialization. In the face of global politics, the environment is affected by human intervention: deforestation, climate destruction and urbanization. The idea of the "landscape" is no longer idyllic forests or fields of flowers but has instead been replaced by sprawling man-made concrete buildings in an industrial setting.”
Read More“My artwork "Wild Reflections," is a picture of healthy trees and in the middle is a reflection of the trees in flames. It is to express the alarming, unsettling reality of wildfires.”
Read More“In this short film, Mother Nature is pursued through time and space by human hands that both threaten to destroy her and long to protect her . . . We have to reach out to her before it is too late, before we destroy ourselves in our futile attempts to control her.”
Read More“I perform my poems at environmental activism rallies and youth climate writing workshops. These pursuits culminated in Precipice, my collection of original poetry and oil paintings which explores the stress and uncertainty of approaching adulthood on a planet threatened by the climate crisis.”
Read More“My work 'Kingdom Animalia' addresses species extinction and the diminishing of biodiversity. I think that our impact as humans on the environment surrounding us is important to document, so I did just that by taking the negative space of leaves that I found in my yard and filling their surroundings with all the animals I could think of.”
Read More“‘Fragile’ aims to draw attention to how we are creating human-made disasters which in turn are affecting villages that often cannot get help. Far away in distant cities we go about our daily lives, unaware of how our lifestyle practices affect others around the planet. We need to care for our world because this is our only chance.”
Read MoreThis piece is a shrine to the toxins and delights of a world on fire, and a call to action to other Vermonters to reconceptualize how we see everyday material objects, becoming more aware of the environmental destruction caused by their creation, and the lives that they will live after they have been discarded from our use.
Read MoreI created this painting to depict our physical footprint as humans on this earth, which sadly involves a lot of trash.
Read MoreMy piece attempts to illustrate the ways in which history repeats itself, and in which humanity remains willfully ignorant.
Read MoreEach container within this work holds a viable ecosystem capable of sustaining itself for upwards of three years.
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