Climate Artists in Residence: A Foward Series Conversation

Join us for a cross-sector panel discussion of how agencies and organizations are embedding artists as creative partners to address climate issues.

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024

Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST / Online Event (Zoom)

Hosted By: Forecast Public Art in partnership with CAIR Lab 

Featured Speakers:

• Benny Starr, musician and cultural strategist who served as the U.S. Water Alliance's inaugural Artist-in-Residence and Senior Arts & Culture Fellow, and is the founder of Watercolor Creative.
• Maura Jarvis, award-winning water communications specialist and One Water superhero, previously with Philadelphia Water Department’s (PWD) Public Affairs division and Program Manager for Equitable Infrastructure at the US Water Alliance.
• sTo LeN, interdisciplinary artist whose recent work has centered on collaborations with abused landscapes and municipal agencies.

• Barry Keppard, head of MAPC's Public Health Department and supervisor of the agency’s regional and local public health department projects as well as the department’s Health in All Policies (HiAP) and healthy community design projects.

This panel will be be moderated by Johanna K Taylor, PhD, a hybrid scholar and arts administrator whose work explores how artists and designers collaboratively expand democratic actions in arts institutions, Associate Professor at Arizona State University and co-founder of CAIR Lab.

This is part of our conversation series FORWARD #6: Climate.

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To register for the event and for more information, please visit: https://events.humanitix.com/climate-artists-in-residence