This conversation will be led by EarthEcho’s Youth Leaders, Apurva Iyengar and Ameilia Fortgang, who play a key role leading EarthEcho’s education programs while developing and implementing campaigns to mobilize their peers worldwide to protect our water planet.
Guest Expert: Xavier Cortada
Xavier Cortada is an artist and professor of practice at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History. Over the past three decades, the Cuban-American artist has created art at the North and South poles and across 6 continents, including more than 75 public artworks and dozens of installations, collaborative murals and socially engaged projects. The crux of Cortada’s work finds itself rooted in a deep conceptual engagement of his participants. Particularly environmentally focused, the work Cortada develops is intended to generate awareness and action towards issues of global climate change. Learn more at www.cortada.com.
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