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Panelists: Theresa Escobedo - Civic Art Program Manager – Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Houston; Aaron Ambroso -HCJM; Kristi Rangel - Artist - Witness series. Moderator: Necole S. Irvin, Director, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs - City of Houston

Rethinking the Museum

April 4, 2023

Press: Migración climática: el nuevo factor que preocupa por el desplazamiento de población dentro del país

Univision Houston interview

Rethinking the Museum

April 1, 2023

Missing in Brooks County, Film Screening and Conversation

Film Screening and Conversation, Houston Climate Justice Museum

Panelists: Eddie Canales, South Texas Human Rights Center; Michelle Chinos; Omar Roman; and Dr. Kate Spradley, Texas State University; along with filmmakers Jeff Bemiss and Lisa Molomot.

Rethinking the Museum

March 20, 2023

Lost and Found: The Emotions Behind Extinction

Guest Speaker at HCJM

Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, Professor of History at the University of Stavanger, Norway

About the space

Located in the East End of Houston, we're

Examining Legacies

We often found that museums perpetuated cultural versions of nature that were tied to upper class values and dubious racial theories. So we came up with the idea that if we want to tackle the environmental crisis, we have to change the way that museums operate; we have to be more experimental, creative, and open ended. And, we have to unabashedly focus on ethical questions when looking at art and science: Who benefits from this image or object? What point of view does it take? Who is represented and how?

Changing the way we think about nature

We try to foreground fragile ecological relations in climate justice, and to radically rethink what a museum does and who we do this with. Our attitudes about nature greatly inform the actions we take, and our cultural institutions have the responsibility to examine the legacies of colonialism and racism entrenched in their own practices as well as in the industries that fund them. We work to be in coalition with community partners in order to clear room for values that are more reflective of our collective lived experiences. The climate crisis demands that we confront our existing social institutions while also constructing alternative worlds.

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Community Partners

Sunrise Movement Houston

We create exhibits, cooperative projects, and community space to crack open discussions and think experimentally about art, with an emphasis on collectively and actively shaping our climate futures.

Plant It Forward Farms

West Street Recovery

Sam Houston State Natural History Collection

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2022

Rethinking the Museum

November 18, 2022

Worldmaking: Arts Engagement Amidst Climate Change

Gulf Coast Connections, Rice University Center for Environmental Studies

Presenters: Aaron Ambroso, Houston Climate Justice Museum; Xandra Eden and Ashley DeHoyos, DiverseWorks; Rebecca Snedeker, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South; Ama Rogan and Dr. Amy Lesen, Educators, Artists, Scientist Engaging Learners (EASEL)

Rethinking the Museum

November 12, 2022

Black Media Story Summit: Climate Justice

The Balancing Act: Using facts and creativity for climate justice media

Moderator: Aaron Ambroso, HCJM

Panelists: Ralph Bouquet, NOVA; Caty Borum, Yes, And...Laughter Lab; Dr. Stephanie Castillo, STEMedia

Rethinking the Museum

November 4, 2022

Creosote Stories: Seeding Planthroposcenes in Northeast Houston

HCJM at Rice University Solar Studios

Reading and Conversation: Kathryn Savage, Groundglass, and Willow Naomi Curry, Arcadia

Rethinking the Museum

November 2, 2022

Press: New Climate Justice Mural at Rice’s Solar Studios

by Hadley Medlock, Rice Thresher

Rethinking the Museum

September 30, 2022

Would You Look at the Time?

Julia Barbosa Landois short film Screening and Artist Panel at Garza Studios

Moderator: Tiffany Jin, HCJM

Panelists: Artists Julie DeVries, Julia Barbosa Landois, Monica Villarreal

Rethinking the Museum

September 24, 2022

Behind me was the desert: Migration, Borders and the Struggle for Land

Houston Climate Justice Museum

Panelists: Marina Azahua, Columbia University; Eddie Canales, South Texas Human Rights Center, Saúl Hernández Vargas, Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Core Fellow

Rethinking the Museum

September 10, 2022

Community Climate Summit

Climate Action in Houston: Where are we now?

Presenters: Aaron Ambroso, HCJM; Doris Brown, Northeast Action Collective and West Street Recovery

Rethinking the Museum

August 26, 2022

5 Years After Landfall

Houston Climate Justice Museum

in partnership with Air Alliance + One Breath

Show curated by Matt Manalo with works by Jean-Sebastien Boncy, Willow Naomi Curry, Julie DeVries, Julia Barbosa Landois, Matt Manalo, and Cecilia Norman

Reflections: Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee; policy advisor Zoe Middleton; professor, writer and founder of the Houston Flood Museum Dr. Lacy M. Johnson; City of Houston poet laureate Outspoken Bean

Participating Organizations: CEER, Connective, Brazos Bookstore, Environment Texas, Moms Clean Air Force, Houston Youth Climate Strike

Rethinking the Museum

July 8, 2022

Climate Block Party

Houston Climate Justice Museum

Speakers: Doris Brown, Northeast Action Collective & West Street Recovery; Joy Priest; Eddie Garcia Carrizo, Comecrudo Tribe; Anika Shethia and Tommy Wan, Houston Youth Climate Strike; Alondra Torres and Alexander Spike, Air Alliance; Stop TxDOT; Houston DSA; Nia Buckley, RECollective; Sandra Edwards, Dolores McGruder, Joetta Stevenson.

Rethinking the Museum

April 20, 2022

Texas Historical Commission Webinar

From the Ground Up: Starting a Museum

Presenters: Aaron Ambroso and Tiffany Jin

About the space

Located in the East End of Houston, we're

Examining Legacies

Changing the way we think about nature

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