Name: "What's in a Forest?": Workshop Artshop
Start: 2025-04-22T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-22T16:00:00-07:00
Location: West Los Angeles College

A 2-hour workshop with Whitney Richardson of Climate House. We'll explore deforestation through an arts, curation, and policy making lens.
About this Event

Join us for "WHAT'S IN A FOREST" -- a 2-hourworkshop artshop with Whitney Richardson of Climate House. Attendees will go through a series of worldbuilding exercises, exploring deforestation through the lens of artmaking, curation, and policymaking. This event is part of "Roots & Resilience: Rising Scholars for Climate Justice", a joint celebration of Earth Day, CA Climate Center Second Anniversary and Reentry Awareness Month.

Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: FA Gallery at West LA College

About Whitney Richardson: Whitney Richardson is the founder and director of Climate House. Whitney is a campaign strategist, merging significant experience in lawmaking, policy research, and social practice arts. Since 2021, she has been an appointed Expert Member of the UN Knowledge Network. She holds an MSc in International Environmental Studies, a BA in International Studies with a Human Rights focus, and her research has been published in a variety of international texts and academic publications. Whitney also runs a consultancy firm specializing in policy research, development, and organizing strategy, bridging the imagination gaps between policy proposals and implementation.

About Climate House: Climate House operates as a mobile museum. At its core, it’s a curatorial project and clandestine think tank engaging you using timely arts and cultural experiences. These experiences explore contemporary and intersecting realities, feature multiple main characters (including you), and shepherd you through a crash course toward short and long-term equitable solutions to the “climate” problem. Choose to engage and tap into your potential as an agent of change.By bringing complex issues to life using the arts, Climate House seeks to create “aha” moments that build understanding and illuminate desirable pathways forward. Understanding that state and local action alone can achieve 75% of the Paris Climate goals, most Climate House programming is staged to advance state and local level climate solutions.Headquartered in Los Angeles, Climate House serves as LA’s climate museum. Climate House also produces multi-site programming nationally and beyond.