Can art help us process our changing climate? Climate One conversations feature energy executives and

environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.

Today's program is generously underwritten by the Sydney E. Frank Foundation. I'm Greg Dalton.

The story of climate change is typically told in the language of facts and figures, graphs, and charts.

But through dance, music, sculpture, and other media, artists can reach people on a deeper and more emotional level,

designing cultural moments that can bring us together and bring us to tears.

If I'm writing a study about climate change, I'm going to give you some data and some graphs and it's going to be rather dry.

I'm not going to cry, but I might, if I'm giving you a work of art about climate change.

I might show more of myself, I might do something different that

inspires something else in you besides a certain part of your brain.

Nora Lawrence is senior curator for the Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley

outside New York City. She curated Storm King's 2018 exhibition titled Indicators,

Artists on Climate Change, which was among the first major museum

exhibitions about climate disruption. Alonzo King is a visionary choreographer and founder of

Alonzo King Lines Ballet, a contemporary dance company that tours the world, often collaborating

with artists from other realms. King doesn't think of art and science as mutually exclusive.

In fact, he says, they're the perfect balancing act.

A balancing act between logic and feeling.

In their highest realms, the union of the marriage of those two

is met through intuition.

There is nothing that exists that you can create that does not have science.

It's impossible.

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