Sketching Climate Stories:

Sketching People and Stories at the Global Climate Action Summit

Beginning with the Rise for Climate March in San Francisco on Saturday, September 8, 2018 through to the Global Climate Action Summit ending a week later, artists from the San Francisco Sketchers group have been telling, in word and image, the story of people actively engaged and concerned about climate issues. These artists are providing coverage in a way that is unique from other media. Click on these galleries below.

Guillermo Mash by Oliver Hoeller

Guillermo Mash covers the March for Chico Sol News. “We need people that are governing based on evidence than ideology.”

Audrey, Bolt and the Turtles by Mark Simmons

Audrey and Bolt came from Kansas to Marin with the Turtle Island Restoration Network. “We’re focusing on salmon populations outside Samuel P. Taylor

Yaku Viteri by Diane Olivier

Yaku Viteri is part of the Kichwa People of Srayaku from the Amazon River of Equador. “Big mining and Oil industries are moving into our community. It’s a universal problem, not just our community. We have a proposal for the conservation of the forest called ‘Kawasak Sacha’ which means living forest.”

Cameron by Lance Jackson

Cameron says “learn how to listen globally and locally.”

Carter by Mark Simmons

Carter is an artist and philosopher of Climate Art. “I bring ice wherever I go to bear witness. I let it carve itself. We are stuck in our framing. Ice takes longer to melt and people think.”

The Climate Ribbon by Carole Flaherty

The Climate Ribbon is an international project. “Add your ribbon to the Tree of Life sculpture then find someone else’s ribbon that speaks to you and tie it on your wrist.”

Jenny by Erin Blackwell

Jenny “believes in the interconnectedness of living things like plants and rocks and standing up for things…making love visible is what gives me hope. We came on a bus with First Unitarian Church in San Jose.”

Kamurrah by Susan Cornelis

Kamurrah has been marching for 50 years in downtown San Francisco. She’s 75 and proud of it. “The lovers of the earth are being pushed out of the city. I want my grandchildren to be able to take some hikes like I always have. I was raised through gardening and want the same for them.”

Person 2 by Bill Russell

The fires devastated communities. All that remains of this truck is bent metal and gray ash amongst charred trees.

Kaulana by Debra Dout

“I’m marching to stand in solidarity with all my indigenous brothers and sisters for the protection of our Mother Earth,” says Kaulana.

Dr. Mark Levine by Eve Aldridge

Dr. Mark Levine is a scientist. “Temperatures are higher now than at any time in one thousand years.”

Protesters and Activists by Bill Russell

Protesting and educating about climate warming at San Francico City Hall