A cross-sector discussion on how agencies and organizations are embedding artists as creative partners to address climate issues.
This panel discussion, hosted by Forecast and in partnership with CAIR Lab on April 25, 2024, features the following 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 is 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.
Links and resources shared in the live chat:
• You’ll find our latest FORWARD Issue, the 6th installment focused on climate, at forecast-public-art.foleon.co...
• The FORWARD6 Toolkit with the actionable resources and Benny Starr’s Dream Job: bit.ly/FWD6toolkit
• Check out more of sTo’s work at www.stoishere.com/
• More on those video archives: www.stoishere.com/san-tv-at-momi
• And some of the other archival material he mentioned www.stoishere.com/phil-d-basket
• Mural Arts Philadelphia: www.muralarts.org/
• For artists looking for opportunities, Forecast also shares opps we see happening in the field on our Artist Opportunities page: forecastpublicart.org/artist-...
• Please consider a donation to make events like this possible: bit.ly/DonateFPA
This is part of our conversation series for our digital publication, FORWARD. FORWARD #6 focuses on climate. Forecast Public Art offers this program free of cost, but donations are appreciated. Forecast is a nonprofit organization.