"Imagining Climate Futures" Gallery Closing Party
Join us for a night of art and imagination as we explore different visions of our climate future at our Gallery Closing party! We will be celebrating the achievements of this groundbreaking art show and announcing upcoming plans for Climate Futures Studio, including the introduction of cohort 3 of Climate Storytelling 2075. Come enjoy art, dance, drink, and celebrate with us!
Imagining Climate Futures: Gallery Closing: Join Climate Futures Studio at the Queens Council on the Arts for the closing of our immersive exhibition exploring how frontline youth are using art to imagine just climate futures. This event marks the end to the Imagining Climate Futures gallery exhibition, which opened during New York Climate Week in September 2025. The exhibition features original works from the 2025 cohort of Climate Storytelling 2075, young artists from BIPOC, queer, and frontline communities who offer bold, hopeful, and justice-rooted visions of the year 2075. It also features work from Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, a climate fiction initiative engaging writers from across the globe in envisioning the next generations of climate progress. Through textiles, animation, painting, poetry, speculative maps, soundscapes, and sculpture, these artists radically reimagine what’s possible when traditional knowledge, creativity, and climate solutions converge. Come experience climate storytelling as resistance, as strategy, and as an invitation to dream bigger.
7:00 PM - Doors Open
7:30 PM - Gallery Tour of "Imagining Climate Futures" Exhibition
8:00 PM - Interactive Visioning Activity
8:30 PM - DJ Set by Kevin Aviance
About the hosts
Climate Futures Studio is a youth-led initiative strengthening narrative power in the climate justice movement. Through fellowships, exhibitions, and public storytelling, the Studio supports communities to craft compelling, future-oriented climate narratives that inspire action and cultural change. www.climatefutures.art
Climate Storytelling 2075 is Climate Futures Studio’s flagship program: a year-long initiative that supports emerging artists in crafting visions of just climate futures. Through mentorship, peer learning, and public platforms, participants develop original works that amplify the wisdom of frontline communities to reimagine the year 2075. Now in its second year, the program has supported over 30 young artists whose visions challenge dominant narratives and offer inclusive, actionable pathways toward a livable future.
Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) fosters and elevates the arts across Queens through programs and exhibitions. QCA's gallery provides a vital space for diverse and experimental expressions of creativity rooted in community.
Ofrenda Fest merges ancestral traditions with the arts as a way to give back to the planet and ourselves. They provide a safe space to facilitate these connections and allow the community to interact with Indigenous cultures. www.ofrendafest.com
Imagine 2200 is Grist’s climate fiction initiative, engaging writers from across the globe in envisioning the next 180 years of climate progress. Whether built on abundance or adaptation, reform or a new understanding of survival, these stories provide flickers of hope, even joy, and serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality. www.grist.org/imagine2200
If you are interested in supporting our artists and helping to sustain this program, please consider making a donation at https://gofund.me/f2dc5e0c
You can also make tax deductible donations at http://bit.ly/climatefuturesdonate