Close Modal Champions for Environmental Justice Join us for our first-ever environmental justice resource fair!Help us celebrate the power of collective impact and the promise of environmental justice while charting a path forward for a sustainable future. Visit with local and national organizations to learn about their work:Amplifying the voices of marginalized communities affected by environmental issues.Ensuring that all community members have equal access to clean air, water, and healthy, green spaces.Supporting policies that promote sustainability and protect vulnerable populations. We believe that environmental justice is essential for a healthy, thriving community. Join our convening of environmental justice visionaries and discover resources, connect with local organizations, and empower your community! Brought to you through the Museum’s Center for the Environment, this event is part of our Year of the Earthshot, an exploration of the climate solutions and the actions we can take now to live sustainably on Earth. Get Tickets Date and Time Saturday, October 19 | 1:15 – 4:00 pm Audience All Ages Location Blue Wing, Lower Level View Map Language English Get Tickets Date and Time Saturday, October 19 | 1:15 – 4:00 pm Audience All Ages Location Blue Wing, Lower Level View Map Language English Visit with local and national organizations to learn about their work:Amplifying the voices of marginalized communities affected by environmental issues.Ensuring that all community members have equal access to clean air, water, and healthy, green spaces.Supporting policies that promote sustainability and protect vulnerable populations. We believe that environmental justice is essential for a healthy, thriving community. Join our convening of environmental justice visionaries and discover resources, connect with local organizations, and empower your community! Brought to you through the Museum’s Center for the Environment, this event is part of our Year of the Earthshot, an exploration of the climate solutions and the actions we can take now to live sustainably on Earth. Schedule of Events Speakers Blue Wing, Lower Level 9:15 –10:00 amCareer Panel: Engineering a Green FutureCharles Hua, Founder and Executive Director of PowerLinesStwart Pena Feliz, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of MacroCycleCaroline Nickerson, co-founder and Executive Director of Florida Community Innovation 10:15 –11:00 amPolicy 101, The Nature of it All11:15 am – 12:00 pmCitizen Science, a Team Effort12:15 – 1:00 pmStories of environmental justice: New England Communities Jazmin Castellon, GreenRoots, Inc.Patricia Fabian, BU School of Public HealthMarissa Zampino, Mystic River Watershed Association1:00 – 1:20 pmKeynote Presentation from Museum of Science Washburn Award Winner Dr. Robert BullardRobert Bullard, PhD, Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern UniversityCrystal Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Environmental Justice for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts2:15 – 3:00 pmStories of environmental justice: National communitiesPamela Carralero, Kettering University/Climate Resilient FlintGarry Harris, Center for Sustainable CommunitiesDestiny Gonzalez, Heath Resources in Action3:00 – 3:45 pmStories of environmental justice: Policy and GovernmentMorgan Zabow, NOAA’s National Integrated Heat and Health Information SystemCharlotte Gray, EPA Region 1Britteny Jenkins, Conservation Law Foundation Participating Organizations 1:00 - 4:00 pm, Blue Wing Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research, Tufts UniversityBoston University School of Public HealthCAPA Strategies, Portland, ORCenter for Sustainable Communities, Atlanta, GAClimate Resilient Flint/Kettering University, Flint, MICommunity Action WorksConservation Law FoundationEPA Region 1Greenroots, Inc.Groundwork USAHealth Resources in ActionMassachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental AffairsMuseum of Life and Science/Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring, Durham, NCMystic River Watershed AssociationNeighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH)National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Integrated Heat and Health Information System (NIHHIS)Quincy Asian Resources, Inc (QARI) MASARY Installations While exploring the Museum, see the artistic installations inspired by youths’ attitudes toward Climate Change.MASARY Curatorial StatementAs we continue to confront climate change in the present day and myriad scales of the not- so-distant future, we look to the perspectives of the youth for guidance forward on climate perspective now, while preparing for tomorrow. The Museum of Science’s Earthshot spotlight has given the opportunity for artists to create work based on these perspectives through a youth survey conducted in Spring 2024 with students ranging from grades 6 - 12. The data reveals how climate change impacts their emotional lives, approaches to sustainable action, where this global confrontation sits among other stressors, and much more. MASARY has curated three exceptional artists, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Georgie Friedman, and Dirt Lux (Jason Lieder), to create video artworks using this unique data that are presented and debuted at the Youth Climate Summit hosted by the Museum of Science and New England Aquarium. The artworks shown integrate the data to express storytelling, poetics, and aesthetics. The survey information is embraced in the art making process through software and as foundational inspiration to drive the artwork concepts forward embracing the generative youth confrontation of climate change. Piece 1 of 3 Artist: Dirt Lux (Jason Lieder) | instagram.com/dirtlux/ Artwork Title: Shifts_Gen, 2024 Shifts_Gen is a portrait of the complex emotions and perceptions students in 2024 have about climate change. Sponsored by the Museum of Science, Boston and driven by MassINC's survey data; visions of calm, untouched digital worlds, representing those who think climate change isn’t a concern — slowly, begin to shift, landscapes begin to unravel. Intense visual distortions show the concerns of the students while layers of video and artwork represent the fluid perspectives on this complex issue. The piece seeks to present images of concern and challenge while at the same time, cheer on the healing of damages to our Earth we’ve all contributed to. Piece 2 of 3 Artist: Georgie Friedman georgiefriedman.com | info@georgiefriedman.com Artwork Title: Particulates for ChangeFrom the Museum of Science's Youth Climate Change Poll, the aspects and answers that stood out most to me were about how students already see climate change impacting their lives, think leaders should listen more to people who live in urban areas, and how "students of color are more concerned about climate impacts," and are "also more likely to say climate will impact their communities more than others." This piece presents data from a national survey conducted by the Museum of Science, evoking a duality of emotions youth expressed about the planet's future. As the landscapes distort and unravel, layered visuals reveal growing concern, but also hope that we can heal the damage already done.Piece 3 of 3Artist: Allison Maria Rodriguez Artwork Title: Our Long Now Our Long Now is a poetic and emotional response to the young people represented within the Museum of Science Youth Survey – it is a moving-image “letter” to these youth. The work is choreographed as a two-channel rumination on the nature of time designed specifically for the sky bridge, featuring two 45.9-foot screens on a functioning architectural bridge connecting sections of the museum. This piece explores an expanded and nonlinear conceptualization of time-thinking, supporting an intergenerational approach to the awareness of our individual, collective and interconnected role in the life of the earth. Imagery utilized predominantly represents cyclical earth time and deep cosmic time, making use of the nontraditional orientation of these particular screens and their literal functioning as a bridge between “here” and “there”, while evoking a path that is neither linear nor pre-determined. It is an homage to the agency of today’s youth (those in the survey), their connection to the planet and to previous generations, and our collective role as ancestors in solidarity with future citizens yet to be born.
