Visualizing Water: Artists Working Across Disciplines

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What role can art and storytelling play in addressing global water challenges and crises? This panel brings together visual and multidisciplinary artists to discuss how creative practices translate water’s often invisible systems into tangible narrative, image, and form. Moving beyond observation, the conversation explores how artists make complex systems legible and resonant for diverse publics. The panel engages with the importance of centering communities and ecologies most impacted by water insecurity, contamination, and climate-driven disruption, and to foreground questions of equity, access, and accountability. Each panelist will discuss how their work operates to deepen public understanding, foster cross-disciplinary dialogue, and open new imaginaries for more just and sustainable water futures. By bridging science, public policy, and lived experience, these creative interventions can help build the public will and shared language needed to implement equitable water futures.