"Re-formation: Material Culture and Climate Futures" presents a critical intervention at the intersection of artistic practice and environmental urgency.

Opening April 24 at Blanchard Gallery in conjunction with the 2025 Climate Justice Summit, this exhibition showcases works from Professor Williams's "Digital Fabrication and Media Installation" and Professor Taylor's "Expanded Print Media" courses.

The exhibition interrogates what it means to create art in an age of ecological crisis, challenging conventional notions of artistic production and consumption. By foregrounding materiality as both medium and message, students confront the ethical dimensions of creative practice—asking whose voices are centered in climate narratives, how art might visualize intergenerational harm, and what responsibilities artists bear toward the communities most affected by environmental degradation.

The works engage with questions of extraction, disposability, and regeneration, reimagining the studio as a site for environmental reckoning and social transformation. Through their material investigations, students propose alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and being with our changing planet.

Serving as both a contemplative space and catalyst for action during the Summit's registration period, "Re-formation" positions art not merely as commentary on climate justice but as an essential participant in its realization.