Connect with people working across art, climate, research, and community practice addressing emergencies in climate, art and society. The S.O.Summit responds to a present-future shaped by overlapping emergencies and emerging possibilities for adaptation, preparedness, and action, designed as a convening and laboratory.
Over two days, invited guests consider emergency preparedness amid increasing environmental, social, and infrastructural uncertainty. The summit foregrounds socially engaged art as a way to imagine, rehearse, and build cooperative models for the common good. It expands prevailing approaches to emergency preparedness by considering how artists and community-based practices contribute alongside more established planning and response efforts.
The summit features artist talks, panel discussions, workshops, live performances, gallery tours, and a community fair, approaching preparedness through multiple perspectives. Activities take place in person in the auditorium, Art of the North galleries, Thomas Planetarium and Seed Lab, with some speakers joining the live audience remotely.
This initiative builds on the Anchorage Museum’s longstanding place-based work around a changing world and collective action and is made possible, in part, by support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.