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 U-M Faculty Director of Arts Research/Creative Practice Clare Croft, artists, architects and arts administrators–from across U-M 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 U-M funding opportunities at the intersection of arts and environment will be discussed.

Jointly sponsored by OVPR and Arts Initiative, and also part of U-M Climate Week