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COMMUNITY ART HEALTH PROGRAM

The Program

Art for Climate Resilience is a research-informed 6-month community arts in health program that combines creative expression and food justice to empower Houston’s Third and Fifth Ward in addressing climate risks while enhancing green brain health.

Our Why

Our mission is to empower communities through art, enhancing climate resilience and promoting sustainable practices while encouraging active participation in environmental initiatives.

We know the power of art to heal, which is why we integrate trauma-informed and inclusive principles into our work and this program.

The What

Explore the intersection of art and climate resilience initiatives.

FROM ECO-ANXIETY TO ECO-ACTION

  • Art-in-Health Integration

  • Mental Health Support

  • Community-Centered

CO-DESIGNED WITH COMMUNITY ARTISTS

  • Creative Expression

  • Co-designers Upskill

  • Art Showcase

ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL & FOOD JUSTICE

  • Permaculture Teachings

  • Local Garden and Farm Site Visits

  • Nutrition and Food Justice Guidance

FOSTERING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

  • Trauma-Informed Research

  • Social-Emotional-Learning

  • Sustainability and Community Adaptation

Program Highlights
Co-design with your creative community

A local artist will be selected as the Co-designer to guide the program. They will help co-create our art artifacts: Climate Art Kits and Climate and Food Justice booklets, alongside community members. 

This program is designed for access, inclusivity, and trauma-informed practices. Our events will be public to support access to our climate and art-health mental health resources. Subscribe to our calendar to stay updated: Art for Climate Resilience 

Access to climate art mental health resources
Strengthen community resilience

Community resilience is central to this art-health program as we will support ecosystem building, collaboration and social cohesion to improve disaster adaptation. Pre- and post-event surveys will be included in our workshops to evaluate our impact, research, and efforts to our community goals. 

Garden of Us

Saturday, April 19, 2025, from 12:00 - 4:00 PM CST

Dupree Room at Eldorado Ballroom

Sunday, July 20th, 2025, from 12:00 - 3:00 PM CST

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art

Climate Zine Storytelling
Creative Place-keeping & Mapping

Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 1:00 -3:30 PM CST

In-Person | Limited Capacity

Creative Climate Wellness

July 26, 2025, from 11:00 -2:00 PM CST

Japhet Creek Community Park

Community Harvest Day

Friday, October 3, 2025, from 1:00 - 4:00 PM CST

The Ion

Art Showcase
World Innovation Day

Friday, August 1, 2025, from 12:00 -2:30 PM CST

The Ion

July 11, 2025, from 12:00 -3:00 PM CST

The Ion | Conference Room 032

Art & Environmental Architecture, Inc. Community Design Charrette

Join us for an inspiring, creative, and healing program that brings the Houston community together!

Through art, wellness activities, and meaningful conversations, we’ll explore ways to care for each other and our environment while celebrating the unique voices and cultures that make our city shine.

Come be part of the movement — sign up for our newsletter and stay in the loop about upcoming events! 

Art for Climate Resilience Events

Program artifact goals are to distribute 100 arts-in-health informed disaster kits and 100 limited edition printed co-designed zines honoring community voices and wisdom as a cultural and context-driven educational resource.
Art Goals:
Program Goals:
Research Goals:
From April to October 2025 in Houston, Texas, co-learn with 200 community members through interactive interdisciplinary workshops, bridging environmental and mental health education through creativity to enhance green brain health and community resilience.
Evaluate the impact and program design through community engagement in an Interdisciplinary Trauma-Informed Participatory Art Program for Climate Adaptation and Community Resilience.

By fusing arts-in-health methodologies with environmental and eco-psychological frameworks, the project aims to build climate literacy through accessible, community-centered education.

  • Key program components:

    • Community Arts Health Program

    • Climate Resilience

    • Social Participatory Art

    • Community Engaged Research

  • Promote food cultivation and permaculture as adaptive solutions and use art as a tool for emotional well-being. This program amplifies creativity for those who may not have access.

  • Participants will co-create an art artifact, Food & Climate Literacy Zine, so that they can shape the resources most effective for their community.

  • A culminating exhibition will showcase this collaborative work alongside selected works by the community and co-design artist team.

  • The zine will be published digitally after the program to expand access.

Volunteers help make this program possible by supporting events, connecting with the community, and sharing their time and energy. Their voluntary contribution could be a single event experience or regularly throughout the program, like event-support, outreach, or community building. 

Volunteers

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