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.
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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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