ART KIT

CLIMATE STRIKE

NOTE: This art kit was originally created for the Climate Strike in 2019, updated for April 2020 Climate Strike, and remains up as an archival resource.

INCLUDES:virtual art making guide, designs you can use, art-making how-to guides, songs music tips, and more.

Images may not be used for for-profit uses and please credit the artist.    

-David Solnit, Climate Strike Arts Organizer

Earth Day Live/Climate Strike info at:   United States: StrikeWithUS.org,  StopTheMoneyPipeline.org

Global: Fridays for Future    More Resources: GlobalClimateStrike.net

VIDEO LINK

This is a call to you to make art and to sing. Maybe we can't march in the street or walk out of school during this pandemic. But we can be visible and have our voices heard.  This is how we will protect our people in crisis now--and our climate and future. We can do this by making art together and raising our voices. 

MAKE A SIGN: take a photo, share online with  #EarthDayLive #DigitalClimateStrike # #peoplenotpollutors

PUT IT UP IN YOUR WINDOW, doorway...where people can see it. Take a photo, Share online.

CHALK YOUR SIDEWALK; Take a photo, Share online.

MAKE A GROUP “VIRTUAL BANNER:” Get friends to each make a letter, take a photo, put it together to spell your message, and share. 

SING: Sing these songs, take a video, be part of the virtual choir song videos.  

Table of Contents

Virtual Art Builds: Letter Sign Banner

Designs for Strike Sign-Making

Song and music

Additional Resources

VIRTUAL BANNER ART BUILDS:

Here’s one way we can make art together, stay connected, grow our groups and movement, keep safe at home, and show solidarity. Each person makes a letter, photos of everyone holding their letter are combined into a “virtual banner. The banner can be shared online, sent to decisionmakers to pressure them and displayed in public.

HOW-TO INSTRUCTIONS: HERE     

SPANISH: En Español                                 

HOW TO VIDEO: HERE 

SONG & MUSIC Movements don’t win without music. Here are some music resources:

WATCH THE VIDEO

KEEP ON STRIKING

If our people are in crisis

This is a promise to keep on striking

If our climate is in crisis

This a promise to keep on striking

Through the pain and through the distance

Out our windows we are singing:

Just Recovery and Just Transition x2

LYRICS:

Stop the money pipeline

May our money and our values be aligned

To life and the future we are loyal

When we stop the flow of money then we stop the flow of oil

  • Chase, Get Off It (song Chant For Divestment Action) by Barbara Ford  Soundcloud Audio

Chase Get off it!

Injustice lines your pockets

You’re making dirty profits

Divest from all that’s toxic

  • Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Fires Back at Chase

Video of songs used at Chase Action

Designs for Online/Sign-Making

Here are some designs you can use to make strike signs to post on windows, doors, fences, and to share on line or use as your social media profile. Many of these designs have black and white versions perfect for hand coloring--and some you could trace from a computer if you don’t have a printer. Here are some Tips for Making Signs from Design Downloads

Jhon Cortez Designs  (below): Jhon writes about this design: "Today there are only tears. The trees cry when they feel the fire, the cats cry when they feel the bullets, the flowers cry when they do not see the sun, the people cry when they see that everything is ending, when they see that their wealth is sick. Tears accumulate in ponds, clouds and then it falls. Perhaps the fire begins to slow down, the forest turns green again and the tigers will find their home. All this pain we have caused and the mother who tenderly welcomes us, now exhausts her light, her life drains in black rivers, in gray clouds and cemeteries full of the beings that she created. She remembers her strong voice, thunder in the sky and the wind scatters the fire, her fire erodes and purifies, destroys and shelters, she wants our attention and no one listens to her: she takes a deep breath and takes a moment, hopes that we learn the lesson, hopes that we return to where we did not need so much, where the cry was compost, where the oxen and trees struggled just to grow. She made us remember that everything that walks on her is life and deserves respect."

EMILY THIESSEN DESIGNS  (below) ARTIST: Emily Thiessen is an illustrator living in Lekwungen Territories/Victoria B.C. who makes posters, comics, screen prints, murals, and other creative trouble. “This poster design is about young people’s power to heal the earth.”

AD NAKA DESIGNS (below) These pieces are designed in Sunrise font and colors, with slogans that evoke the stakes of fighting for a Green New Deal. As the reality of the severity of the climate crisis grows, as does our strength as organizers; by naming the things we are at risk of losing, we make action imperative to all. @radical.ad, or at www.adnaka.com.

#PEOPLEnotPOLLUTERS ART (below) 5 artists from Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative created these brand new #PeopleNotPolluters Art designs below: Artists: 1-2: Josh MacPhee, 3: Paul Kjelland, 4-5: Aaron Hughs, 6: Sanya Hyland, 7:Fernando Marti.  Artist statements and bio here.

STOP THE MONEY PIPELINE DESIGNS (below)

Black and white and color sign-posters. Artist: Jan Burger, Paperhand

CRYSTAL CLARITY (BELOW) "Being an artist, being any person in NYC right now is terrifying.

We are the epicenter of the states and the world in COVID casualties. The communities that are suffering the most are the same as always. black , brown , indigenous and immigrant people who are the frontlines of climate change, pandemics and victims of the cruelties of insane wealth and resource inequalities . How can you justify resourcing corporate polluters during a global pandemic while our people are struggling to find basic safety gear, food and housing?

Artists continue to celebrate human resilience and resistance In this and every crisis moment and keep our attention on the world we must create with everything in us.

We have to continue to create work that helps us to visualize our selves as larger forces than those who would violate the sacred for profit." Video of Crystal painting here.

CRYSTAL CLARITY

#JUSTRECOVERY (below) This is a time to be decisive in saving lives and bold in charting a path to a genuinely healthier and more equitable future through a just recovery. The #justrecovery Art Kit includes other designs and in many languages (Spanish, Portugese, French, Chinese, Turkish). Artists of 3 designs below are; Mona Caron, David Solnit and Jan Berger.

SUNRISE MOVEMENT POSTERS(BELOW) Sunrise Movement designers put together a bunch of signs/posters, including black and white color-in version as part of their Earth Day Hype resources, including tips on wheatpasting and banner drops

 

GREEN NEW DEAL ARTS: You can make signs, create posters, screen print them on fabric or paper, print stickers, project them on walls at night, use them online, copy or print the black and white versions and hand color them with watercolors, colored pencils and markers. The Green New Deal Arts Project is a collaboration of art.350.org and Labor Network  for Sustainability. Artists in order of images below are:Crystal Clarity, Molly Crabapple, Jan Burger, Mona Caron, Ricardo Levins Morales, and Isaac Murdoch.(Espanol and Francaise of some designs) New designs directly below by Crystal Clarity download here.

     

Additional Resources (below)

How-to guides

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