About Climate Futures Studio
+Climate Storytelling 2075
Climate Storytelling 2075 is Climate Futures Studio’s flagship program: a year-long initiative that supports emerging artists in crafting visions of just climate futures. Through mentorship, peer learning, and public platforms, participants develop original works that amplify the wisdom of frontline communities to reimagine the year 2075. Now in its third year, the program has supported over 40 young artists whose visions challenge dominant narratives and offer inclusive, actionable pathways toward a livable future.
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Our mission is to cultivate inclusive opportunities for creative expression, interdisciplinary learning, and public dialogue that deepen awareness of climate and environmental issues. Through fellowships, exhibitions, educational programming, and community partnerships, we elevate diverse perspectives and foster greater cultural understanding of the social, environmental, and human dimensions of climate change.
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Climate Futures Studio advances public understanding and engagement around climate change through arts, storytelling, and creative education. We support emerging artists and storytellers, particularly young people from frontline and historically underrepresented communities, in exploring and communicating visions of just, resilient, and regenerative futures.
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By connecting artists, educators, scientists, and community leaders, Climate Futures Studio seeks to expand access to climate education, encourage civic and cultural participation, and inspire collaborative approaches to building equitable and sustainable futures.
Our Sponsors
Climate Futures Studio programming and exhibitions are supported by:
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Our Letter to You
Biographies
Laken Sylvander
she / hers
Creative Direction & Artist Experience
Laken is an environmental advocate, artist, and communications strategist. She is a PhD student in Art History with an emphasis on environmental art and indigenous environmental preservation at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. She is excited by the potential of ceramics for expanding her practice of exploring the relationship between body and place, which she currently experiments with in textile and fiber works. She also writes & produces electronic music.
Robert J. Dellringer
they / them
Scientific Curriculum
Robert is a Ph.D. student in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA, holding an M.S. in Marine Biology, a B.S. in Marine & Coastal Sciences, and a B.A. in International Relations with an emphasis in Latin America/Caribbean Politics. As a Queer & Latinx student, they believe that historically excluded knowledge systems are essential for averting a planetary crisis and filling in knowledge gaps, ultimately offering us alternative imagined futures. Robert is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a UCLA Center for Diverse Leadership Fellow, and a Sustainable Oceans NSF National Research Trainee.
Carrick Reddin
he / him
Strategic Partnerships
Carrick is the Director of Community-Centered Solutions and Strategic Initiatives at the World Resources Institute, where he works to deepen collaboration with grassroots, Indigenous, women and youth-led organizations around the world. Alongside this work, he is developing a docuseries that explores how faith and spirituality can drive environmental justice and ecological renewal. He is interested in how the arts and storytelling can shift consciousness, build solidarity, and catalyze systemic change.
Erin Powell
she / hers
Communications
Erin is an environmental justice advocate, poet, photographer, and yogi. She appreciates genuine storytelling that is impactful, hopeful, and genuine. As someone who grew up in a mismanaged-waste neighborhood, she remains an advocate for oppressed voices and aspires to chronically uplift the underdogs. She is curious to find ways to engage in scalable messaging that influences public policy and intentional decision making. She holds a B.A. in Media from Indiana University.
Our vision for the future of this work
The inaugural cohort of Climate Storytelling 2075 met throughout 2024, laying an essential foundation for the transdisciplinary and intersectional approach to climate storytelling that we are working to grow into a broader movement in the climate solutions space. Much climate futurism is happening, largely in writing and fiction, and - while essential - we are looking to expand that storytelling to many and all media, such that envisioning and crafting desirable climate futures is as accessible and inviting to all visionaries as possible.
We released our second annual call for climate storytelling proposals in December 2024 as an international call to young storytellers of frontline communities worldwide. In February of 2025, we accepted a cohort of 20 young artists into the Climate Storytelling 2075 community. In January of 2026, we welcomed a third cohort of 18 artists based on the strength of their proposed visions of just, vibrant, and living climate futures.
Future calls may be an invitation to envision a particular climate timeframe, some may be calls to visionaries of certain geological and climate kinship (place-based cohorts), some may be thematic in nature (food futures, ocean futures, music futures, prairie futures). To receive information on future calls in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of this page.
Ultimately, the future of this work depends on sustaining the work of the artists, co-stewards and organizers, and the many guests who offer their wisdom and talents to the annual cohorts in the development of their storytelling works.
Climate Storytelling 2075 lost critical funding early in 2025 due to the Trump administration’s attack on climate science and the sciences writ large, and currently relies on grassroots funding to bring exhibitions to life, launch digital anthology publications, host interdisciplinary lectures for artists and events for the public, and more.
