Artists for Climate Awareness, the Ostrom Workshop, the Environment, Sustainability, and Society Institute, and the Environmental Resilience Institute is looking for 4 artists to participate in the first ever Brushes for a Better Planet CoLab in a project called a hackathon, designed to pair local artists and local environmental researchers/groups to work together to co-create an artifact of climate justice!
Through dialogue, fieldwork, and creative exchange, artists will co-create original pieces that make environmental research more accessible, emotional, and public-facing. Selected works will be exhibited at Pillar Arts as part of Artists for Climate Awareness’ CoLab: Art as Inquiry exhibition, on view April 19-28.
Artists will work closely with a researcher sometime during March or early April of 2026–to interpret real-world environmental data, lived experiences, and climate questions through visual art. This is an opportunity to expand your practice, engage deeply with climate issues, and be part of a transdisciplinary community committed to creative inquiry and justice.