Where is Art x Climate Gallery?

With the growing number of anti-environmental policies being enforced by the U.S. federal government we wonder if the Art x Climate Gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Ocean Hall is still open to the public. The April 22, 2025 opening was seen by some contributing artists as ‘covert’ with no Smithsonian staffers involved and publicity was prohibited. The agency that organized the exhibit was the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) as part of the National Climate Assessment; both websites have gone dark, according to NPR.

Around the same time as the Art x Climate Gallery show opened in April, the complete staff of USGCRP had been fired by the Trump administration.

The National Climate Assessment has been the go-to information source about how climate change affects the United States and is widely used by teachers, city planners, farmers, judges and regular citizens wanting to know more about how quickly sea levels are rising near American cities and how to deal with wildfire smoke exposure.

The first Art x Climate Gallery in 2023 was an interdisciplinary project with the new publication of the fifth National Climate Assessment. Art x Climate was the first-ever gallery of visual art included in the National Climate Assessment, aiming to connect scientific data and art to shed light on how we experience climate change.  92 artists featured in Art x Climate Gallery in 2023 were chosen from a pool of 800 applicants.

Some folks on Instagram claim that the exhibit was still up on July 15 but signage about the show in the Hall of Oceans was gone.

Information about the artists in the exhibit can be seen on these Instagram links:

#ArtXClimate #SmithsonianExhibit #InvasionArtwork #NationalClimateAssessment #ClimateArt #DCArtScene #QuietTriumph #PiaDeGirolamo

Image: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3936/