ClimArts brings artists and climate experts together to create evidence-based climate stories and workshops, using art as a tool for understanding and action.
Through carefully facilitated collaboration, ClimArts supports artists and experts in translating complex climate research, lived experience, and indigenous knowledge into stories that resonate across communities and contexts.
By focusing on storytelling, ClimArts unites artists, climate experts, and solution-driven collaborators to craft powerful, evidence-based narratives through art.
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Our Mission
To connect diverse ways of knowing, scientific, cultural, lived, and creative, and turn climate knowledge into stories that make solutions feel accessible and actionable, helping people see themselves in the change ahead.
Our Vision
To ignite climate action through art, making solutions and insights feel personal and tangible.
Our Approach to Climate Communication
ClimArts operates within a climate communication culture that moves beyond fear-based or “doom and gloom” narratives. While grounded in evidence and urgency, our work emphasizes care, agency, and possibility.
Thus, creating stories that invite engagement rather than overwhelm, and that support people in imagining themselves as part of climate solutions.
Our Services
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ClimArts designs and facilitates climate communication workshops that support artists, organizations, and institutions in developing evidence-based, creative approaches to climate storytelling. Offered in both virtual and in-person formats, these workshops combine artistic practice with climate expertise to help participants translate complex research into meaningful, engaging narratives.
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ClimArts partners with institutions, funders, and communities to co-create climate storytelling initiatives from early ideation through public-facing delivery. Working alongside artists, climate experts, and collaborators, we steward the full storytelling lifecycle. Thus, shaping concepts, supporting collaborative creation, guiding production, and helping work reach audiences with clarity, care, and integrity.
These initiatives bring together multiple forms of knowledge to create evidence-based stories that resonate across disciplines, communities, and contexts; moving complex ideas from insight to impact without losing rigor or shared authorship.
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ClimArts Connect is ClimArts’ expert-led matchmaking and collaboration service. Designed for climate scientists, community leaders, and solution-focused experts, it supports those who want to translate their work into compelling artistic storytelling for public audiences.
Through a structured pairing process, ClimArts connects experts with performing artists whose creative practice aligns with the work's subject matter, audience, and intent. We provide a clear collaboration framework that supports shared goal-setting, creative alignment, and scientific integrity, while managing the coordination and logistics that enable successful interdisciplinary collaboration.
Throughout the process, ClimArts emphasizes shared authorship, evidence-based storytelling, and “bounded imagination,” ensuring work remains both rigorous and resonant.
Partnerships & Support
ClimArts collaborates with and is supported by leading cultural, academic, and philanthropic organizations committed to advancing climate understanding through storytelling and the arts.
These partnerships enable co-creation and delivery of collaborative projects, workshops, and public-facing work that engage diverse audiences worldwide.
We actively partner with institutions, funders, and organizations to develop collaborative storytelling projects and workshops.
Whatever stage you're at, we want to hear from you. Ideally you'll have funding confirmed or a source identified.
But if you don't, don't hold back. Writing a proposal together with a future collaborator is something we've done before and believe in: it's a genuine way to test alignment, build trust, and arrive at something neither of us could have shaped alone.
If you’re interested, please reach out to info@climarts.org
Whatever stage you're at, we want to hear from you. Ideally you'll have funding confirmed or a source identified.
But if you don't, don't hold back. Writing a proposal together with a future collaborator is something we've done before and believe in: it's a genuine way to test alignment, build trust, and arrive at something neither of us could have shaped alone.