Advancing Climate Understanding Through Storytelling
The Climate Stories Collaborative empowers faculty and students to use creative expression to tell compelling climate stories, including the stories of climate disruption and positive climate action.
Header image excerpted from “Aqueous Saunter 2013,” artwork contributed to our digital showcase by student Paul Jackson.
Connecting, Inspiring, and Engaging
Stories That Shape Understanding. Art That Inspires Action.
Through our flagship program, the Climate Stories Showcase, we feature creative student and faculty climate communication work in visual, performing, and narrative arts—as well as host visiting creatives who inspire new approaches to climate storytelling.
Why Climate Stories
Learn more about the Climate Stories Collaborative and the power of using storytelling and creative expression to advance the narrative around climate change.
Faculty Collaborators
Join the Collaborative, participate in events, and engage your classes in deeper learning and reflection on climate change through climate stories assignments.
Student Participants
Discover student creativity in our Annual Showcase—highlighting bold, innovative, and interactive approaches to communicating about climate change.
Invest in the Future
Help Make a Difference
Support the Climate Stories Collaborative and help amplify creative climate communication at App State! Your donation fuels student-driven storytelling, campus programming, and community engagement that inspires action on climate change. Every gift makes a difference.
Climate Stories is Supported By
Pathways to Resilience
Pathways to Resilience enacts App State’s current Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). Every ten years as part of our reaccreditation process, we select a new QEP topic—an area of student learning and/or student success that aligns with institutional needs and priorities.