Press Release: “Imagining Climate Futures” Gallery Opening by Climate Futures Studio & Ofrenda Fest
Climate Futures Studio Announces "Imagining Climate Futures" Gallery Exhibit at New York Climate Week
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18, 2025 — 6:00 PM, Queens Council on the Arts, Long Island City, NY
New York, NY — August 1, 2025 — Climate Futures Studio, in collaboration with Ofrenda Fest, presents Imagining Climate Futures, its annual exhibit during Climate Week NYC 2025. The gallery opens Thursday, September 18 at 6:00 PM at the Queens Council on the Arts in Long Island City, and runs through the week as part of the citywide Climate Week programming.
Imagining Climate Futures showcases 18 original works created by members of the 2025 Climate Storytelling 2075 Cohort—emerging artists, writers, and activists who envision a regenerative and just climate future fifty years from now.
Visitors will experience a broad range of media—from immersive sound environments and video installations to data-driven visuals, short speculative fiction, and textiles—that ask audiences to envision, and sense, the inevitable outcomes of environmental justice, community resilience, and interspecies kinship.
This exhibit marks the public premiere of Volume II of the Climate Storytelling 2075 anthology — Volume I launched during New York Climate Week 2024. Expect deeply imaginative, hopeful, and regenerative responses to the question: How do you envision a desirable climate future in the year 2075?
Event Details
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 6:00 PM
Venue: Queens Council on the Arts, Long Island City, Queens, NYC
Tickets: Free - Available via Eventbrite
This exhibit arrives during Climate Week NYC, the largest annual climate event aligned with the United Nations General Assembly, running this year from September 22–29. Climate Week hosts over 600 related events across New York City, amplifying voices across business, government, and the climate justice movement. By centering frontline youth visionaries in speculative and optimistic climate narratives, Imagining Climate Futures complements broader conversations about climate equity, policy action, and cultural transformation. As attendees engage with each work’s message, they step into collective imaginings of irresistable and inevitable futures—and find their role in making it real.
About Climate Futures Studio
Climate Futures Studio fosters a new climate storytelling practice, partnering with frontline youth and communities to produce multimedia works that envision hopeful futures grounded in justice and regeneration. The Studio’s Climate Storytelling 2075 programme champions solutions-driven speculative narratives to open collective space for climate imagination. Climate Futures Studio
Media Contact:
Laken Sylvander
Climate Futures Studio
Email: climatestorytelling2075@gmail.com
Website: climatefutures.art
Instagram: @climatefutures.art
About the hosts
Climate Futures Studio is a youth-led initiative strengthening narrative power in the climate justice movement. Through fellowships, exhibitions, and public storytelling, the Studio supports communities to craft compelling, future-oriented climate narratives that inspire action and cultural change. www.climatefutures.art
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 second year, the program has supported over 30 young artists whose visions challenge dominant narratives and offer inclusive, actionable pathways toward a livable future.
Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) fosters and elevates the arts across Queens through programs and exhibitions. QCA's gallery provides a vital space for diverse and experimental expressions of creativity rooted in community.
Ofrenda Fest merges ancestral traditions with the arts as a way to give back to the planet and ourselves. They provide a safe space to facilitate these connections and allow the community to interact with Indigenous cultures. www.ofrendafest.com
If you are interested in supporting these artists/storytellers and helping to sustain this program, please consider making a donation at https://gofund.me/f2dc5e0c
