Artistic Approaches to Making an Environmentally Just World October 3 AT 1:30 PM

What is required to approach the creation of performance, visual art, architecture, and design in a sustainable way? As climate change continues, how do artists, architects, and designers need to reconsider how they do their work? How might students incorporate environmental justice into their emerging artistry?

In this interactive conversation, facilitated by UM Faculty Director of Arts Research/Creative Practice Clare Croft, artists, architects, and arts administrators–from across UM and Southeast Michigan–will share approaches to these necessary and contemporary questions. Together, we’ll look at examples of how all of us in the arts are shifting how we work and/or amplifying particular aspects of our practice in response to climate change and other environmental realities. As part of the gathering, upcoming UM funding opportunities at the intersection of arts and environment will be discussed.

Panelists

• Sarah Oliver, Associate Professor, Theatre & Drama
• Jen Maigret, Professor of Architecture & Director, Climate Futures
• Alexis Lamb, Founder, CEO & Artistic Director, Refugia Festival
• Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina, artists, Nigamon / Tunai
• Shawn Rieschl Johnson, Chief Programming and Production Officer, Detroit Opera
• Joseph Trumpey, Professor, Stamps

This event is part of the University of Michigan’s Climate Week.