Kamar Dehaney, Grade 11

Eliantra’s Sorrow

This is a picture of a character of mine, Eliantra. In her story she is poor and lived amongst the crows and wolves. She planted the trees as a way to show appreciation and it had become her favorite pastime. She really loves the trees she used to dwell in their shade with the wolves. However, someone cut them down, and she is distraught about the trees. With deforestation there arises two problems. Animals are becoming endangered and extinct because their habitat is being destroyed, and carbon dioxide in the air and there are no trees to take the Co2 in.

Camily Lara, Grade 9

Caroline Tuthill

Dylan Bowen, Grade 12

Turning a Blind Eye

It’s easy to turn a blind eye or give the world a cold shoulder. It’s easy to look the other way, and pretend what’s happening around us has nothing to do with us. But in reality it has everything to do with us. Not only does climate change include us, but it was created by us. Nobody’s missing from this equation. It doesn’t matter if you’re a field, a tree, a cow, or a little girl, in the end we are all a part of the Earth.

Above is one of four images submitted as a set – see the rest of Dylan’s work in the full collection

Mya O’Neill, Grade 11

Perception

Climate change requires a change of perception to be able to understand it fully. Looking from one perspective will not shape the entire problem as a whole. I understand and have learned that there are multiple causes and ways climate change is able to be what it is. Being open to learning about every different way and improving daily personal actions to better our world is only possible with a change in perception.

Crystal Zheng, Grade 12

Tick-Tock! Time is Running Out!

Climate change is happening throughout the world. It has also impacted the wildlife. The once beautiful green forest is turning into ashes. The increasing temperature will lower many animals’ survival rates. Sea levels are also rising as ice begins to melt. In my artwork, I want to use the hourglass to represent time. What we chose next is like a chess piece. We need to carefully plan everything to get the results we want. As an animal lover, I want to show we can still have a chance to protect the wildlife and help bring back their home.

Olivia MacPherson, Grade 10

The Burden She Carries

The piece that I have made is a triptych showing the evolution of environmental change revolving around a depiction of Mother Nature. In the first-panel Mother Nature is reaching for the earth, her arrival causing the lands to flourish. Her dress is woven by her creations. It showcases the crashing waves and the pearls gleaming from its depth, a belt of flowers delicately arranged by her waist, and grass growing from the soil at the bottom. A variety of flowers surround the edges of the panel. Life grows around her as she sees the earth grow. The second panel shows her on a more modern-day earth, carrying the result of her altered creations. A revolution of industry has shadowed the earth, and the weight of it is too much to bear. The ice of her dress is dripping and melted, and the trees she watched grow were chopped down and sold. The metal buried in the dirt and stone has been quickly dug up and used to make tools of violent power.

The smoke from the factories has sullied the air and covers the earth she can no longer recognize. The third panel is a possible future, one in which she was broken and torn. She holds the earth but it is too late to stop what has already been done. The panel is cracked and she is covered in smoke. She can no longer see what she lost. Some tried to stop it, but all they could manage was a few pieces of tape around the border. If we as inhabitants of this earth want to continue to live in the world we were given, we cannot put it all on her shoulders.

Hayleigh Lecoq

Coral Reef

Adam Miller, Grade 12

Solitary Sapling

Katherine Chvatal, Grade 9

Trash Island

Emily Gilley, Grade 9

Crumbling Cliffs

Erin Gilley, Grade 9

A Forest of Storms

Lily Haynes, Grade 9

Gay Head Lighthouse

Beth Jennings, Grade 9

Pumpkin

Alana Nevin, Grade 11

2 Worlds

Brooke Ward, Grade 10

It’s Not Just Our World

Victor Andrade, Grade 9

Broken My Heart Again

The trees are important for us humans, and even knowing that we insist on destroying them, this picture is an example that when we kill a tree we also kill ourselves. 

Madeleine Bengtsson, Grade 11

Climate’s Craft

In this piece I’ve photographed a part of the cliffs on Lucy Vincent Beach, Martha’s Vineyard. As you can see, the picture focuses on the extraordinary formations of the cliffs, caused by forces of weathering and erosion. Due to climate change, the winds are much stronger, the sea level is higher, etc. This contributes to the intense weathering and changing of our landmarks.

Although the ripples of the cliffs are beautiful, they remind us that we are messing with the climate, causing the climate to sculpt this stark formation (hence the title “Climate’s Craft”). If we don’t act now to mitigate the climate crisis, landmarks like these will be lost entirely, along with the rest of our island.

Samanta Morgnerova, Grade 10

Glimpse to the future

The world as we know it is changing and soon all we will see is the mistakes of our pasts, trash will overflow our sights and we will regret what we didn’t do. I hope that we still have time to save our live before they crumple.

Sam Folts, Grade 11

Swan Lake, Act V

When I was walking by Sengekontacket pond I saw this dead swan in the bushes. I remember thinking to myself how beautiful it was, though its feathers were strewn across the ground and it sat at an unusual angle I couldn’t help but think how graceful it was even in death. Hence the title, Swan Lake, being in reference to the ballet show. To me this swan is a good representation of how we’ve affected wildlife from causing climate change. This animal lives its whole life being affected by us, pollution from being right by the road, houses built on the shores of its home, and less prey from fishing.

As humans we want to make everything bigger and better, because these advancements have led to so much environmental distress for the wildlife that’s forced to share a planet with us we have to take a moment to think. To ask yourself if you were just a swan on a lake wouldn’t you want better?

Hannah Murphy, Grade 11

Nature Interrupted

This piece connects to the theme of climate change because it shows how much our Earth is being affected by us. We are the reason for climate change, and this picture shows this. When I took this picture, I was shocked to see how big the gaps in the forest were, because I had never seen it from this view. I think this piece highlights the impact we have on the Earth.

Katie Ogden, Grade 10

Sign of the Times

Erosion of the East Chop bluff had been documented as far back as the 1800’s. The water’s edge is continuously shrinking as a result of rising sea level combined with erosion and storms continue to grow in intensity, both of which are results of climate change. These things have eroded the bluff to the point of danger and the road, East Chop Drive, was officially closed off to vehicles in 2018.

There have been many attempts in the past to stabilize the bluff, but unfortunately mitigation and restoration costs are only getting higher as the bluff depletes. For now, East Chop Drive remains closed to all vehicular traffic and signs, as shown in my picture, warn pedestrians to stay off of the eroded bluff.

Jack Engler and Adrian Alberghini, Grade 9

A Whale in Today’s Climate

Lilly Cabral, Grade 9

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Marharyta Morozova, Grade 9

Why is the Climate Changing?

Shealyn Smith, Grade 9

Two Worlds

Chase Panico, Grade 6

Climate Change

Roxy White, Grade 6

Doomed But Still Dancing

Nika Montoyo, Grade 6

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