From 6 November 2023 to 19 January 2024, the Phelan US Centre hosted the exhibition, Climate Change: America and the World featuring the work of Carleen de Sözer, one of London’s most skilled and varied aerosol and airbrush artists. The exhibition, which is based on the Centre’s podcast of the same name explores the different ways climate change impacts the United States and the world.
The exhibition also displayed the work of our Arts Competition’s winner and runners up who are all LSE students and staff.
A new home for the Climate Change: America and the World exhibition
We are pleased to announce that the Climate Change: America and the World exhibition will now have a permanent home at All City Arts College.
During its initial run, the Climate Change: America and the World exhibition was located in LSE’s Atrium Gallery. Following a launch event, the exhibition was viewed by over 2,500 people including during the School’s Autumn 2023 graduation event. This meant that the exhibition was not only viewed by LSE graduates, but also by their parents and other family members, and their friends.
Sustainability has been central to our exhibition; at the outset we pledged that we would:
- Reduce: By only using paper where necessary, e.g. by having a QR code linked to an online exhibition FAQ document
- Recycle: The vinyl signage and lettering used in the exhibition was made of MD-RA; with the completion of the exhibition all its components have been recycled, including the backing paper used in its application. In addition, the postcards showcasing the exhibition canvases are printed on recycled paper and are recyclable. They are limited edition artworks which many exhibition attendees kept as art.
- Reuse: The canvases, which were the exhibition’s focus, will now have an ongoing legacy
A new home for the exhibition at All City Arts College
We are proud to announce that the six exhibition canvases have found a new home with the new All City Arts College. The canvases will now have an ongoing legacy at a new college which focuses on art and social responsibility and celebrates young people and the creative contributions they can make, an appropriate theme given the topic of the Climate Change: America and the World exhibition. We are also excited to be involved with All City Arts College as the exhibition’s artist, Carleen de Sözer, is a patron of the new college.
The exhibition’s new home also gives a new lease on life to our six-episode podcast series, on which the exhibition was based, and will bring it to the widest possible audience.
Of the exhibition’s new home, James Fornara, Founder and Principal of All City Arts College, has said:
"We are very thankful to the LSE for donating artwork produced for the LSE Phelan US Centre's exhibition on climate change by our beloved patron Carleen De Sözer which are now adorning the walls of our home at Proposition Studios Chalk Farm. These pictures perfectly encapsulate what both All City Arts College and Proposition Studios are all about."
We would like to thank the LSE Student Union’s Sustainable Projects Fund, LSE Arts, the LSE Sustainability team, Carleen de Sözer, the exhibition’s artist, and Manca Bajec, who helped install the exhibition.
Carleen de Sözer is one of London’s most skilled and varied aerosol and airbrush artists. Carleen’s diverse and engaging work can be seen around London; she has collaborated with Disney to produce a Black Panther mural in Stratford Westfield and has worked on a project with Zero Carbon for their campaign, #PriceOutPollution.
This exhibition was held from 6 November 2023 to 19 January 2024