Imagining Climate Futures: Gallery Opening

Welcome to the Imagining Climate Futures: Gallery Opening! Join Climate Futures Studio and Ofrenda Fest at the Queens Council on the Arts for an immersive exhibition exploring how frontline youth are using art to imagine just climate futures. This event 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. Through textiles, animation, 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.

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

If you are interested in supporting our artists and helping to sustain this program, please consider making a donation at https://gofund.me/f2dc5e0c

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Queens Council on the Arts, 5-11 47th Avenue, Queens, United States