Write Climate
Engaging with members of our community to create art forwarding climate action
Climate Banner
Students in the 2022 Write Climate: Art & Engagement class walked the postcard climate banner from Clark Hall to Charlottesville City Hall in early May. We also visited the Albemarle Board of Supervisors during their meeting in early May. We asked these local leaders to use their influence and position to enact carbon-reduction policies and initiatives. The banner is currently on display at the Albemarle City Office Building.
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UVA community members shared how climate change makes them feel and a specific area of concern on some 600 postcards. Students sewed the cards together to create the image of a Charlottesville landscape with an ominous sky.
Additional postcards depicting the entire scene have been printed and are available to the public. The completed postcards will be mailed to local leaders over the coming months.
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The banner depicts a Charlottesville landscape with a unique pallet of the average global temperature anomalies (1880-2022) filling the sky. Photograph by Malcolm MacGregor.
UVA student, Johnny Lindbergh, created a website to explore this data.
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The banner will be hung in the Albemarle County Office Building during the month of May.
University of Virginia’s Write Climate course series
The Write Climate course series has provided opportunities for UVA students to move the climate conversation beyond their classroom and into the community employing art as a primary means of communication.
Check out our past work here.
Fossil Flora
Attend to the fossil fuel products passing through your life and into our waste systems.
Milk Jug Greenhouses
Thanks to community donations and student seed planting, we hope to share dozens of growing greens with our community.