FEMA Climate Resiliency, Photography and Storytelling Exhibition

In collaboration with FEMA Region 8, Resilience Action Partners, SW Gallery & Science Center, Ogden Contemporary Arts, and RedLine Contemporary Art Center, this exhibition presents works from artists investigating and sharing the stories of communities and lands that are adapting to a changing climate.

From sublime foreshadowing to documentation of the real ways natural hazards affect our lives; artists shine a light on resilient communities and their stories of loss, adaptation, mitigation, and restoration.

Tamara Susa’s photographs utilize different times of exposure to underscore that climate change happens continuously and overtime; and though it may not be captured in a single series of photographs, it is omnipresent, and we are all connected to the change.

Bill Nelson’s “Fragile” brings into frame the vulnerable lands to grab our attention. As we gaze through his steel viewfinder, we are encouraged to meditate on our role as stewards of the environment.

Emilie Upczak’s film “Silt” invites us into personal and poetic methods of adaptation and resilience by highlighting familial, ancestral and contemporary strategies of responding, processing and grieving that which seems beyond our control, but necessary to face.

Warm Cookies of the Revolution’s film “Community Almanac” focuses on Climate & Trunk, A collection of wisdom/art/music/celebration from the Denver community, dedicated to solutions to the climate crisis and grounding their work with each other.