Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project

This installation features two innovative textile art projects that give visual and tangible presence to our warming world at a crucial moment of environmental precariousness. By translating temperature, precipitation, humidity, or windspeed data into stitch and color, these vibrant works potently and poignantly reveal the centrality of weather to notions of identity and experiences of place, and thus “map” a range of encounters from environmental to phenomenological.

Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project was organized by The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College. Additional funding has been provided by Culture Ireland.

This exhibition is funded by a generous gift from Gloria Plevin.

Image Credit: 

Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project exhibition,

Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art,

Ursinus College.

Photo by Sarah Bloom.