Raquel De Anda / Interference Archive
Like The Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print - From Katrina to Now, Print- Based Exhibition, Sizes vary, 2005-present
A print based exhibition exploring works form the Climate Justice movement produced after Katrina until now. Artists include (Left to Right):
Youth Vs. the Gov
LMNOPI
Screenprint with embellishments, 2018
The portrait is of Vic Barrett who is a plaintiff in the Youth V Gov case.
Protect Sacred Water for Our Future
Produced for Amplifier Art for Owe Aku, a grassroots organization of Lakota people and their allies to promote the protection of sacred water and land
Ernesto Yerena
Digital print, 2015
Slidell, Charity Hospital and Loss of Public Housing
Internal Displacement
Loss of Public Infrastructure
Alec Dunn, Screenprint, 2008
Produced for Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, a Louisiana based environmental justice group and used by the American Journal of Public Health for a special supplement about Katrina, as well as the EPA
Untitled
Ganzeer
From Justseeds Artist Cooperative’s Commonwealth: Water for All print portfolio
Risograph print, 2017
Untitled
Flavia Lopez
From Justseeds Artist Cooperative’s Commonwealth: Water for All print portfolio
Risograph print, 2017
Migration is Natural
Produced for Amplifier Art and exhibited at the Women's March convention in Detroit, 2017
Jess Snow, Digital print, 2017
Green New Deal
Mona Caron, Digital print, 2019
Toxic Ecology
Hannah Chalew, Risograph Print, 2019
We Resist, We Build, We Rise
Paperhand Puppet Intervention Collective
Screenprint with hand painted embellishments, 2014
Designed by Jan Burger, a founding member of Paperhand Puppet Intervention, and produced for a theater pageant organized in collaboration with the North Carolina Climate Justice Summit and 350.org Arts
About the Artist
Raquel de Anda is an independent curator and cultural organizer. Born and raised on the US/MX border (Laredo, TX) her work exists at the intersections of climate justice with migrant rights and other movements for racial and economic justice. She is a firm believer in the power of art and culture to transform society.
Call to Action
These works from diverse artists tells a story of people rising up from across movements to tackle the climate catastrophe head on and galvanize power toward change. Each pieces tells a story of people and the ways in which they are directly confronting the climate crisis.
You can see how many different types of people and movements are part of the fight for Climate Justice. In these works, I hope you will see something relevant to you and your community and be inspired to organize toward change.