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COAL + ICE

David Breashears glacier field

COAL + ICE is a documentary photography exhibition that brings together the work of over 40 photographers and video artists from around the world to visualize the climate crisis – its causes and consequences – as a large-scale immersive experience. COAL + ICE is co-curated by Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas and renowned exhibition designer Jeroen de Vries, and led by Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. First developed as an exhibition for Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing in 2011, it has since been shown across China, in Paris during COP21, and most recently in 2018 at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in San Francisco.

Asia Society was honored to collaborate with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art to bring COAL + ICE to Washington, D.C. for its East Coast premiere. Programmed as a part of the Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary season, the free exhibition and program series at the Kennedy Center’s REACH campus ran March 15–April 23, 2022. 

Click here to learn more about COAL + ICE, and see photos, videos and more. Reporting on climate change and the environment from ChinaFile can be found here; for more information on Asia Society's other work on climate change and the environment, click here. 

Image credit: Jimmy Chin, Central Rongbuk Glacier Mt. Everest, 2002

 

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Coal + Ice: 2022 Highlights
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Coal + Ice: 2022 Highlights

Watch highlights from the climate-related exhibition held from March 15 to April 23, 2022 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C..
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Coal + Ice: Seeing Change — Climate Storytelling from the Arcticdiscuss their storytelling on the front line of climate change in the Arctic.
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Coal + Ice: Seeing Change — Climate Storytelling from the Arctic

A discussion about storytelling on the front line of climate change in the Arctic.
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Former Vice President Al Gore in conversation with youth climate leaders from Georgetown University.
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Coal + Ice: Al Gore in Conversation With Climate Youth Leaders

The former vice president speaks with four youth climate leaders from Georgetown University about creative ways to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis.
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A panel of experts assess climate change's effect on global food security
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Coal + Ice: Food, Culture, and Crisis

Corby Kummer, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador, and Alice Water assess the threat of climate change on the global food system and outline possible solutions.
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ChinaFile Presents: The Art of Writing About the Environment
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ChinaFile Presents: The Art of Writing About the Environment

Susan Jakes, Evan Osnos, Aryn Baker, and Alexandra Kleeman discuss how to balance hope with despair in writing about the environment.
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Art as Community Activation
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Art as Community Activation

Image makers and activators discuss the intersection of art and climate action.
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Jeffrey Sequeira: jsequeira@asiasociety.org

Taili Ni: tni@asiasociety.org

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    Join the Center on U.S.-China Relations' Associate Director Mary Kay Magistad, for global conversations on what’s happening with climate change around the world, and what’s being done to bend the curve. 
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