Sketching Climate Stories: About Us

On Saturday, September 8, 2018 Bay Area Urban Sketching groups joined together to document the Climate Summit in San Francisco. They created portraits in pictures and words, telling the stories of how these individuals and their communities have been affected by climate change and how they’re working on solutions. They also dropped in on different events and actions during the following week’s events.
The main groups involved are the SF Bay Area Urban Sketchers, a chapter of the international Urban Sketchers organization, with 220 chapters around the world, and SF Sketchers, a San Francisco-based Meetup group with nearly 3,000 members.
They posted sketches online their blogs, on their Facebook group called Sketching Climate Stories, and on Instagram and Twitter with the hashtag #sketchingclimatestories.
The sketches themselves were shown at several locations during the week, including a pop up show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on their Green Thursday evening. After the Summit sketches were shown at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco (see photo at right).
They will continue to find ways to share these climate stories as a long-term project…documenting the effects of climate change on frontline communities and in the public’s mind…in effective ways that a written narrative or a photo may not do.

Sketching Climate Stories show at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.