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In partnership with the Suzuki Elders, Solastalgia convenes intergenerational gatherings to use shared art creation and storytelling to explore climate emotions.

For Belleville, Ont. native Jessica Turner, there is gratification in opening eyes to the climate crisis using artistic media. That's why she plans to make a career of it.

Luiza Salek is using art to help high school teachers provide a platform for students to express their feelings about the climate crisis, as part of the first UBC Climate Studies and Action cohort.

Paige Hunter is using art to make climate change more accessible. She was named a Starfish Canada Top 25 under 25 Environmental Activist in part for co-founding the Sword Fern Collective.

Joshua Ralph honours the lives of invasive plants. The Vancouver-based artist, 25, hosts workshops teaching participants to make art supplies from plants removed in the work of restoring and rewilding. 

Last year, Lani Zastre embarked on an art project to figure out what it means to be a settler and a respectful Indigenous ally in Canada. The result is Be a Better Settler, a gallery exhibit and self-published book featuring 16 portraits created following interviews with First Nations, Métis and Inuit individuals from across the country.

Caroline Monnet’s lounge chair, accompanied by a table, is designed to be a multigenerational “place of gathering,” marked by sloped curves and finished ash wood that is locally sourced.

Ginnifer Menominee's first solo exhibition tells the story of displacement and reclamation of the Potawatomi Nation.

An exhibition of Carl Beam's Charity Works collection carried on its original spirit. In 1999, proceeds of sales from the works supported Indigenous organizations, and in 2023, the same is taking place at Wabano.

In Looking the World in the Face, curator Amin Alsaden centres Indigenous and "otherized" artists as a statement of defiance.

Jobena Petonoquot, an artist from the Algonquin Nation of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, rebels to reclaim the dignity of her ancestors.

Exhibition puts Buffy Sainte-Marie’s digital art in the context of her life as singer-songwriter, activist, philanthropist and educator.

The people behind Reconstructions of Home want visitors to a revamped art space under the Gardiner to know it displaced a vibrant and innovative community living there.

The young people who contributed their artwork to a Royal Ontario Museum exhibition opening this weekend in Toronto expressed frustration and sadness about the COVID-19 pandemic through art, but also gratitude and resilience.

“The climate issue is so intersectional. It hits housing, it hits social justice, the pandemic — we want to explore all of that,” says Abby Neufeld, co-founder of The New Twenties, a writers’ collective and magazine aiming to shape discourse around climate issues.