Climate Stories News

Stay up to date with the latest from the Climate Stories Collaborative. Explore updates, related external media coverage, and highlights from our annual showcases that celebrate student creativity.

2025 Showcase

May 5, 2025 • 8:00 AM

In April 2025, the Climate Stories Collaborative and Pathways to Resilience QEP hosted visiting artist, Jill Pelto, and offered a variety of Earth week events.

Arts, science departments join together to present annual climate showcase

Apr 28, 2025 • 11:24 AM

THE APPALACHIAN—Art, performance and climate science is coming together in the Climate Stories Collaborative annual project to spread awareness about climate…

Climate leader joins App State students and faculty to discuss the intersectionality of climate issues

Feb 16, 2021 • 4:46 PM

THE APPALACHIAN—App State students and faculty facilitated an event with a leading voice in the climate movement to ask questions about how to resolve the…

Climate Stories Collaborative’s Second Feature on Citizens’ Climate Radio Podcast

Jan 22, 2021 • 2:23 PM

CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY—Returning to the Art House are Jennie Carlisle, the curator and director of the Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University, and…

2020 Showcase: A Virtual Pivot in a Pandemic Year

Jul 31, 2020 • 2:00 PM

Originally planned as an in-person event, the 2020 Climate Stories Showcase took a creative turn in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Climate Stories digital exhibition highlighted among university’s virtual academic experiences

Apr 13, 2020 • 4:00 PM

APPALACHIAN TODAY—The university’s College of Fine and Applied Arts hosts an annualClimate Stories Showcase that features student insights on climate change…

Strangeness and Beauty: Dear Climate (Una Chaudhuri, Oliver Kellhammer, and Marina Zurkow) Interviewed

Mar 30, 2020 • 8:02 AM

BOMB MAGAZINE—“SAY HELLO / TO THE HURRICANES” instructs a black-and-white poster featuring a silhouetted image of a person holding an umbrella over a house…

Climate Stories Collaborative Featured on Citizens’ Climate Radio Podcast

Mar 26, 2020 • 12:15 PM

CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY—As climate advocates, we need to articulate what it is we are fighting for. What is the world we want to create? Engaging our…

Climate Storytelling Collaborative Practices: an Artful Process and Adaptation

Mar 1, 2020 • 2:31 PM

ARTISTS & CLIMATE CHANGE—Jennie Carlisle and Laura England are both part of the Climate Stories Collaborative at Appalachian State University…

Signs, Wonders, Blunders: campus organization discusses climate change through art

Nov 7, 2019 • 3:45 PM

THE APPALACHIAN—A partnership between campus program Climate Stories Collaborative and creative research project Dear Climate is bringing a new “playful and…

Storytelling is fueling climate conversations at Appalachian State University

Aug 13, 2019 • 11:51 AM

YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS—How do we respond with our full selves to the enormity of the climate crisis? Educator. Ecologist. Mom. All three of these roles…

Showcase 2019 promotional art featured composite images of silhouettes made up of small climate-themed drawings

2019 Showcase

Aug 2, 2019 • 1:26 PM

In April 2019, the second annual Climate Stories Showcase featured an exhibition and event series with creative works of more than 200 students.