Psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy — all as a foil for our art thinkers — as a way to explore the human scale of the climate crisis. How does global citizenship affect our climate response?
Meet the Panelists
Ayodamola Okunseinde
Artist, Designer, Educator
Ayodamola Okunseinde is a Nigerian-American artist, designer, educator, and time-traveler living and working in New York. His works range from painting and speculative design to physically interactive works, wearable technology and explorations of “Reclamation”. He has exhibited and presented at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Tribeca Storyscapes, EYEO Festival, Brooklyn Museum, M.I.T. Beyond the Cradle, and Afrotectopia amongst others. Okunseinde holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design where he serves as Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design.
Margaret LeJeune
Image-maker, Curator, Educator
Margaret LeJeune is an image-maker, curator, and educator from Rochester, New York (USA). Working predominantly with photographic-based mediums, LeJeune explores our precarious relationship to the natural world. Her work has been widely exhibited at institutions around the world including The Griffin Museum of Photography (USA), The Center for Fine Art Photography (USA), ARC Gallery (USA), Circe Gallery Cape Town (South Africa), Science Cabin (South Korea), and Umbrella Arts (USA). LeJeune has been invited to create work at several residency programs which foster collaboration between the arts and sciences including the Global Nomadic Art Project - The Ephemeral River, University of Notre Dame Research Center, and University of Wisconsin - Madison Trout Lake Research Station. Her work was recently published in Culture, Community, and Climate: Conversations and Emergent Praxis from art.earth press in the UK. LeJeune currently serves as Associate Professor of Photography at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.