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The Climate Museum Presents Climate Arts in the Pandemic: A Conversation with Gabriela Salazar and Una Chaudhuri

New York, NY (March 22, 2021) — The Climate Museum presents Climate Arts in the Pandemic: A Conversation with Gabriela Salazar and Una Chaudhuri, a free, online program exploring art, community, and resilience on Friday, March 26 from 1-2pm EDT. 

This program will discuss Gabriela Salazar’s sculptural installation entitled Low Relief for High Water, which was commissioned by the Museum to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day in April 2020. The Climate Museum planned to present the piece during a one-day, public event in Washington Square Park before it was postponed due to the pandemic. A participatory event in the park is now slated for late 2021, which will invite the public to interact with Salazar and the sculpture while contemplating their own experiences with home, care-taking, and collective responsibility.

Climate Arts in the Pandemic: A Conversation with Gabriela Salazar and Una Chaudhuri, will explore personal and community resilience and examine the ways in which art focused on the climate crisis has gathered freight in the time of COVID-19. The program will include screening of a short film about Salazar’s work, followed by an interactive conversation moderated by Climate Museum director Miranda Massie with a distinguished panel including:

  • Gabriela Salazar, Artist

  • Una Chaudhuri, Climate arts expert; NYU Professor of English, Drama, and Environmental Studies; and Director of NYU's Graduate Program XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement

  • Micah Fink, Filmmaker and Professor of Social Documentary at the School of Visual Arts

  • Anais Reyes, Exhibitions Associate at the Climate Museum

The project was made possible in part with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. 

ASL interpretation will be provided. For further information or to register visit: climatemuseum.org/events-online.  

About the Climate Museum

The Climate Museum is the first museum in the U.S. dedicated to the climate crisis. The museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with public programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds community, and advances just solutions. Most people in the U.S. are worried about the climate crisis, but remain silent and inactive. The Climate Museum offers public programming to meet the rising demand for multiple pathways to civic engagement and climate action. Through exhibitions, panels, workshops, educational initiatives, and youth programs, it builds community around just solutions, mobilizing people to join the fight for a brighter future. Additional information is available at climatemuseum.org. 

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