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Artists have long been at the heart of the climate justice movement, finding bold, inspiring ways to uplift struggles, revealing connections between climate and intersecting issues, building public support, and painting a picture of the world we are working to create.

Like the Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print was a two-part exhibition curated by Raquel de Anda and developed in partnership with the Interference Archive. Interference Archive volunteers Nora Almeida, Ryan Buckley, Sophie Glidden-Lyon, Rachel Jones, and Siyona Ravi supported the selection of materials and event production for the first iteration of the exhibition.

Following the 2 part exhibition Raquel de Anda, Josh MacPhee and LJ Amsterdam collaborated on a box set (exhibition in a box) rich with material including posters, photographs, and objects that chart 50+ years of climate justice history (1968-2022). The box set is owned by over 19 university collections including UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Special Collections, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries. The collection and a free downloadable manuscript can be found at Booklyn.org.

Part 1 - A Visual History of Climate Justice, hosted at the Interference Archive included a collection of archival prints documenting the historical struggles that gave birth to the current climate justice movement. These materials—from the anti-nuclear movement, Indigenous sovereignty movement, Black liberation struggles, the farmworker justice movement, and more—illustrated that the climate justice movement is made of many movements and one that encompasses many terrains of struggle.

Part 2 - Climate Justice in Print: Katrina to Now, hosted at the Nathan Cummings Foundation contained print-based work from 2005-2019 illustrating the climate justice movement from the year that Hurricane Katrina crashed onto the shores of the Gulf Coast.

Part 3 - Like The Waters, We Rise Box Set was created in 2022 in collaboration with Booklyn, Inc., an artist-run non-profit that archives and distributes the work of artists and social justice groups that address urgent cultural issues of our time. The contents of the Like The Waters We Rise box set was selected and organized by Raquel de Anda and Josh MacPhee. The publication was written by Raquel de Anda, LJ Amsterdam, and Josh MacPhee. Educational activities were created by LJ Amsterdam. Photographic research and image permissions were facilitated by Breanna Denney. An exhibition launch of the box set was hosted at City Lore Gallery in New York City.