COAL + ICE

02/16/2024

We are now open. Come check out the exhibition at Asia Society New York

09/18/2023

It’s ! And we’re proud to announce that climate change is going to be the focus of our new 2024 exhibition at Asia Society Museum from Feb. 13 to Aug. 11. COAL + ICE is an immersive photography and video exhibition and climate-related programming series. It's an ongoing, evolving, initiative that has traveled to three continents, and that visualizes the causes and consequences of the climate crisis and foregrounds creative solutions.

Learn more about the upcoming exhibition and events here:
siasociety.org/occasion-climate-week-nyc-asia-society-announces-plans-six-month-photography-exhibition-new-york

https://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/coal-ice-inspiring-climate-action-through-art-and-ideas

04/23/2022

Congratulations to the Asia Society Climate Change Poster Design Prize winners. Over 1,000 submissions were received from 37 countries. The contest was supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in partnership with Amplifier.

Winners:
Alixa Garcia
Chiara Francesca Galimberti
Robert Beckles
Eiri Phild
Janet Moretti
Marlee Younkin
Raul Valdes
Riyadh Fakhruddin
Sergio Ximenez
Shannon Greenhaus

Thank you to everyone that submitted a poster design. All of the accepted submissions will be on display inside COAL + ICE tomorrow 4/23 11-5PM.

04/22/2022

Come by the exhibition tonight until 10:30PM or tomorrow from 11-5PM to see her designs on display!

04/22/2022

Celebrate Earth Day at COAL + ICE!

6:30PM—Guided tour of the COAL + ICE exhibition

6:30-8PM—Live creation of a wearable art piece by Cuban costume designer Celia Ledón

7:30PM—Announcement and presentation of the Asia Society Climate Change Poster Design Prizes, supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.

8PM—DJ Cuzzin B – Sounds of the Climate Movement (special soundtrack created for the exhibition)

No registration required.
https://coalandice.org/event/earth-day-at-coal-ice/

04/22/2022

Alice Qannik Glenn is an Alaska Native Iñupiaq. Her Coffee & Quaq podcast series "AK Natives on the Front Line” highlights the adaptability and resilience of the Iñupiat people in the face of climate change.

Alice participated in the event, “Seeing Change: Storytelling from the Arctic” at COAL + ICE in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Visit COAL + ICE today for a special evening of Earth Day activities. Open from 1-10:30PM.

https://coalandice.org/event/earth-day-at-coal-ice/

The Pulitzer Center has just announced their 2022 annual conference this June, “Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis,” featuring journalists, editors, educators, students, and experts from around the world at the forefront of climate change and environmental reporting.

04/20/2022

Episode 7 of the COAL + ICE podcast is available now. What role does science fiction play in helping us image what a future with climate change will look like, and how we might respond to it?

Who doesn't like a good story, especially one that sharpens your thinking about the future? Science fiction has been doing that for generations, and now, a growing number of sci fi and speculative fiction writers around the world are

04/20/2022

Abigail Washburn and Martha Redbone perform "Come All You Coal Miners,” a powerful ballad for workers rights written by the wife and daughter of a coal miner, Sarah Ogan Gunning. Before the song began, Martha Redbone shared with the audience: "My family is from Harlan County, Kentucky, and my grandfather was a coal miner and all my uncles. They mined out of Portal 31. And so we share very similar stories."

Performed as part of COAL + ICE: Musical Homage to the Earth, a collaborative evening of music featuring an extraordinary group of musicians, traversing traditions from classical to folk, driven by the urgency to defend life on our planet. Other musicians included Jiebing Chen, Sandeep Das, Renée Fleming, Hao Jiang Tian, and Béla Fleck.

COAL + ICE is at the REACH at the The Kennedy Center until April 23rd. Visit https://coalandice.org/events/

Asia Society

04/20/2022

Congratulations and Thank you, to the Bard East/West Ensemble for putting on such a beautiful performance this past Saturday in the center of the COAL + ICE exhibition.

This is the last week to view the exhibition. Don't miss your change to experience COAL + ICE at the Kennedy Center. Visit coalandice.org/events for details on our last two events.

US-China Music Institute of Bard College Conservatory of Music

04/19/2022

David Breashears is an accomplished mountaineer, photographer, and filmmaker. He summited Mount Everest five times before turning his focus to the disappearing glaciers of the Greater Himalayan region. The largest projection at the center of COAL + ICE displays recent photographs by Breashears matched with photographs by early explorers of the region, to reveal the stark difference in glacial mass caused by climate change.

David Breashears stands in front of this projection screen as the 1909 image of the Karakoram by Vittorio Sella dissolves into a photograph by Breashears taken in 2009.

Visit COAL + ICE before it closes this week.

Wed 4/20, 5–8PM
Thu 4/21, 1–5PM Event 6:30PM
Fri 4/22, 1–10:30PM
Sat 4/23, 11-5PM

Photograph of David Breashears by Wolf Hertzberg.

04/18/2022

Take a tour of the history of photography as seen in COAL + ICE, led by Wolf Hertzberg.

COAL + ICE has been extended to April 23, 11-5PM.

Visit coalandice.org for details.

Video by Wolf Hertzberg.