At Ogden Contemporary Arts, artists share stories of resilience in the face of climate change. On view through October 13, 2024, in Ogden, Utah.
FEMA Artworks: Climate Resiliency, Photography and Storytelling Exhibition
August 9–October 13, 2024
Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah
This exhibition presents works from artists investigating and sharing the stories of communities and lands that are adapting to a changing climate. From sublime foreshadowing to documentation of the real ways natural hazards affect our lives; artists shine a light on resilient communities and their stories of loss, adaptation, mitigation, and restoration.
Tamara Susa’s photographs utilize different times of exposure to underscore that climate change happens continuously and over time. Bill Nelson’s Fragile frames vulnerable lands to grab our attention and meditate on our role as stewards of the environment. Tiana Birrell’s video projection investigates water and energy consumption by data centers in Salt Lake and Utah Valley to make these invisible structures visible. Emilie Upczak’s film Silt and Warm Cookies of the Revolution’s video offer personal and poetic methods of adaptation and resilience by highlighting familial, ancestral, and contemporary strategies of responding, processing, and grieving for what seems beyond our control, but necessary to face. Artist collaborative Making Waves for Great Salt Lake creates intimate relationships with the Great Salt Lake, its creatures, and connected waterbodies. You are invited to engage and contribute to the work of Making Waves for Great Salt Lake and Rebecca Peebles as part of this regional story of climate resiliency.
ArtWorks is a FEMA program that connects the arts with hazard mitigation. FEMA’s Region 8 includes Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and twenty-nine tribal nations. The goal is to help communities grow more aware and able to protect themselves from natural risks, such as floods, wildfires, drought, and climate change. The program reframes conversations about how to reduce hazard risks before disasters. Its tools include creative, emotional, sensory, and community-oriented interpretations through the arts. Climate resilience photography and storytelling are the focus. The ArtWorks team aims to highlight climate resilience across the diverse range of FEMA Region 8 communities, tribal nations, and individuals as a changing climate impacts us daily.
OCA thanks and acknowledges the artists, FEMA Region 8, Resilience Action Partners, Redline Contemporary in Denver, and South West Art & Science Gallery in Dickinson, North Dakota, for their collaboration and support on this exhibition.
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