Past

Past Projects

CCL–USA

The Creative Climate Leadership Training and Transformation Program (CCL) was held at Biosphere 2, led by Julie’s Bicycle, thanks to a collaboration of EAC, the University of Arizona-Tucson, and the Colorado European Union Center for Excellence. CCL was developed by the internationally recognized, London-based...

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HOLOSCENES: Little Boxes

HOLOSCENES / Little Boxes was a new art/science film short for Science On a Sphere® (SOS) co-created by Lars Jan/Early Morning Opera, Pablo N. Molina, and NightLight Labs with science and other advisors from across the country. . It was co-commissioned thanks to a collaboration between EcoArts Connections...

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Awareness to Action (A2A)

A2A brought together 37 national leaders from diverse fields in a three-day convening February 21–23, 2018, thanks to a collaboration with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder and Princeton University.

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Sustainability Heroes

Sustainability Heroes portraits were commissioned by EAC from photographer Alan Rabold to honor 18 extraordinary people of Boulder County whose work has made important contributions toward sustainability, resilience, and regeneration locally, nationally, and/or internationally. The portraits were originally...

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TREExOFFICE @ CU

EAC co-produced the Opening Celebration for the TREExOFFICE (TXO) on the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU) campus, thanks to the support of CU Campus Landscape Architect Richelle Reilly, the CU Program in Environmental Design (ENVD) and the CU Community Engagement Design, and Research...

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HOVAB: Weathering Climate

HOVAB, The History of Visual Arts in Boulder, was a city-wide, multi-venue project created and produced by author, writer, and curator Jennifer Heath. As part of HOVAB, the UCAR Science Center and EAC co-produced Weathering Climate: Art, Science, and Sustainability a retrospective exhibit that included ...

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TREExOFFICE @ Civic Park

The TREExOFFICE (TxO) was an outdoor urban co-working and community gathering space inspired by artist, engineer, and inventor Natalie Jeremijenko and originally created thanks to a collaboration between Jeremijenko, EAC, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the CU Program in Environmental...

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Dream Lafayette

Dream Lafayette was a project EAC produced in collaboration with LESAC (the Lafayette Energy Sustainability Action Committee) and LCAC (the Lafayette Cultural Arts Commission, with the help of Airworks Studio (Melanie Walker and George Peters), and others. It included arts and sustainability activities and information...

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Hard Rain Revelations

EAC commissioned Colorado-based artist Jane McMahan to create work inspired by climate change. In response, she developed artwork for Hard Rain Revelations, in collaboration with the UCAR Science Education Center and exhibited at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Through photography, she chose to...

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Shared Skies

Shared Skies was an exhibit by Kim Abeles of digital prints of sky photographs displayed in collaboration with and at the Art-Science Gallery in the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The photographs were taken by Abeles during her own journeys and by artists who participated as they traveled, international...

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SOS Science/Arts Experiment

EAC and Science On a Sphere® (SOS) co-commissioned a collaboration to co-create spherical film shorts for SOS to help people experience global change personally. Commissioned artists were new media artist/composer Michael Theodore and filmmaker/visual artist Jeanne Liotta...

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the invisible connectedness of things

EAC commissioned artist Kim Abeles to bring together air pollution, buses, kids, adults, and lichen to inspire people to use alternative transportation. The exhibition was created in collaboration with the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and ...

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Dream Boulder

EAC produced this event at the request of the City of Boulder Planning Department to “actively engage the community to envision the future” of the civic heart of the city’s downtown, with Airworks Studio visual artists, performance artist Michelle Ellsworth, and media artist Max Bernstein...

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FLOW: Can You See the River?

This project was conceived by artist Mary Miss, assisted by EAC, and included art installations located throughout Indianapolis, a Raindrop mobile app, and a festival and activities held in collaboration with more than 20 leading arts, science, environment, and municipal organizations and agencies....

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Bird Shift: The Anthropogenic Ornithology of North America

Brian D. Collier explored how human activity and climate change has affected bird behavior in Boulder County. Bird Shift was created in collaboration with scientists, transportation specialists, bird watchers, and others, and exhibited in collaboration with the...

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Preparation Y, Second Edition

Michelle Ellsworth created a new performance version of Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome in collaboration with global change biologist Rob Guralnick, an artistically wild, scientifically accurate exploration of the question: “What will be missed if men are gone — and what...

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Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate

EAC co-produced this exhibit, curated by Lele Barnett, in collaboration with the American Meteorological Society, for the AMS international conference in Seattle. It featured the work of 36 artists based in Washington State whose work has been inspired...

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Indigenous Knowledge on Climate Change Gathering

This gathering was the first of its kind in Colorado coming from Indigenous perspectives. It was curated by independent filmmaker Ava Hamilton (Arapaho), and included talks, a performance, panels, and a feast with Indigenous leaders from Equador, Alaska...

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Weather Report: Art and Climate Change

Weather Report was an EAC-initiated project curated by Lucy Lippard and co-produced with the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibit was based at BMoCA with satellite venues in various indoor and outdoor locations and included 51 artists from through ...

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EcoArts Festivals

Our annual festivals brought together science, arts, sustainability, and other organizations to offer performances, exhibits, talks, tours, and other activities educating and inspiring people to think about climate change, recycling, nature, the arts, and other subjects in new ways or for the first time...

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