We are a climate crisis-focused collective of five artists from across the United States. Our work responds directly to alarming scientific projections showing a 12-15% increase in the intensity of natural phenomena in 2025 compared to 2024-an unprecedented acceleration that demands immediate attention. Rather than witnessing these changes as passive observers, we offer aesthetic experiences that provide tools for understanding, awareness, and action to help slow this exponential environmental deterioration.
We are responding as an outcry for the years we as artists have witnessed the degradation of our Earth and sought to express our collective pain.
We seek to have a dialogue between different artistic approaches – painting, ceramics and mixed media installations – that collectively illuminate our complex relationships with each other and the natural world. Our group brings together diverse perspectives and artist approaches from across the country; from Alaska to Rhode Island:
Elaine Miller (Chicago, IL) works through painting to navigate the distance between the roar of our world and the stillness of nature. The traditions of the landscape genre are used to express the many layers of reality and our deep interconnections.
Caroline Anderson (Providence, RI) works with the physicality of paint to convey the tensions that mirror our struggle to live normal lives in a time of profound crisis.
Rebecca Carlton (Door County, WI) is a fact engendered transdisciplinary environmental and social sculpture artist. She reimages, through her installations and sculpture, the often unnoticed, subtle effects of human decisions upon our biosphere.
Sharlene Cline (Homer, AK) uses Chinese brushwork and mixed media to explore the profound interconnectedness between humanity and nature, and our need to face the acceleration of climate change. Her work adds a crucial Alaska-based perspective on visible, immediate climate impacts from one of the most rapidly changing environments.
Rosemarie Gleiser (West Nyack, NY) is a Jewish Latin American artist whose work navigates between drawing, photography, printmaking, and elements that extend into the viewer’s physical space. The artist explores the intersection of identity, human connections, power dynamics, and our critical relationship with water—creating art that catalyzes self- reflection, altered perception, vulnerability, and ecological empathy.
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