The goal of this project is to connect climate change to personal narrative through a mobile audio installation that travels the Adirondack Park recording the stories of climate change.

The intention is to use these stories to inspire student activist/artists to reflect on ways to make art in and around the topic of climate change. This art may take the form of film, dance, visual art, music and will be captured in a digital archive. This archive will hold these creative reflections, along with the original stories, and climate data that will allow for multiple ways of understanding.

The goal is to have our broader audience understand climate change cognitively, intuitively, and in an embodied — real way. More information can be found at https://adkclimatestories.org/.

Fellowship Expectations: The ADK Climate Fellowship has three distinct parts:

1. Along with faculty members, fellows will be working to collect more stories in locations in the park.  Locations will be determined by the Adirondack Council - one of our community partners.
2. The fellows will help faculty transition into the art-making portion of the project and participate in the planning and execution of an artist's retreat in Minerva, New York.  At the four-day retreat, artists and community members respond to climate change by creating works of film, dance, visual art, and music in response to the stories we've collected.
3. Fellows will also have the opportunity to live in the Adriondacks and work with a sustainability leader, The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, New York.