Artists have always responded to their environment, but what happens when it changes?

Art Against Empire's fifth episode goes to Michigan, where an artist embroiders glacier data onto silk and we check in on Minneapolis, where strangers gather in a library basement to make a crazy quilt from surgical bandages and childhood dish towels.

This episode explores how artists respond to environmental crisis — from creating Dust Bowl quilts to the first Earth Day, we track the history of environmental activism and art.

This episode features Bonnie Peterson who works with glaciologists to translate their research into embroidery, and Shug Munich, whose community quilting project asks: "How do we hold climate grief together?" And we meet Paul Yore, an iconoclastic artist from Australia.

Featuring archival audio of Rachel Carson, Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough, and more.

Art Against Empire is edited by Shawn Dearn and produced by Secret Agents. Visit ArtAgainstEmpire.net for photos, episode notes, and resources.