(Sold Out) Art Farm: Designing Critical Pathways to Climate Action Through Art and Culture

Where321 W Dry Creek Rd
Healdsburg, CA 95448
WhenOctober 3, 2026
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Art Farm at West Dry Creek is honored to welcome Favianna Rodriguez, recently named a California Arts Council Legacy Awardee, for a presentation titled Designing Critical Pathways to Climate Action Through Art and Culture.
In this talk, Rodriguez will make the case that art and culture aren’t peripheral to the climate fight but one of its most powerful levers. Drawing on her years organizing at the intersection of art and social justice, she’ll explore how artists shape the stories, symbols, and cultural narratives that determine whether people feel connected to the land, urgency, and each other, and how that connection (or its absence) shows up in the choices communities make around climate. Expect a conversation about the role of imagination and cultural strategy in building climate resilience, why centering joy and healing matters alongside urgency and grief, and how artists and cultural organizers can work alongside scientists and policymakers rather than after them. Rodriguez will offer both a framework for thinking about art’s role in movement building and concrete examples from her own practice of what that work looks like in action.
  • Light refreshments made by Chef Liza will be available. This event is free and open to the public. Space in the Art Barn is limited, please RSVP by Monday 9/28.

 

About Art Farm:

Art Farm at West Dry Creek is a creative retreat and residency program on the west side of Healdsburg, California’s Dry Creek Valley, offering artists, regenerative farmers, and community members a respite from daily life and a space to create, connect, and innovate around ecosystem health and climate solutions.

 

About Favianna Rodriguez Giannoni:

Favianna Rodriguez Giannoni is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and entrepreneur based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom. Her work centers joy and healing, while challenging entrenched myths and dominant cultural practices. Favianna’s creative partnerships include companies like Ben & Jerry’s, Spotify, Old Navy, and Playboy Magazine. She has completed a number of large scale public art commissions with the City of San Francisco and the Presidio National Park. Through her poignant speeches, she has inspired audiences around the world including at the United Nations Climate Summit, Sundance Film Festival, Smithsonian, Google and Lush Cosmetics. Favianna’s creative practice serves as a record of her human experiences as a woman of color embracing pleasure and womb healing through creative expression and personal transformation. Her signature mark-making embodies the perspective of a first-generation American Latinx artist with Afro-Latinx roots who grew up in Oakland, California during the era of the war on drugs and the birth of Hip Hop.

A strategy advisor to artists of all genres, Favianna is regarded as one of the leading thinkers and personalities uniting art, culture and social impact. Through her thought leadership as President and co-founder of The Center for Cultural Power, an organization igniting change at the intersection of art and social justice, she has been instrumental in building a cultural strategy ecosystem that supports BIPOC artists in the U.S. She helped launch the Constellations Culture Change Fund, a philanthropic initiative designed to build cultural power by investing in BIPOC artists and grassroots art organizations.

Favianna is a recognized climate justice leader, and brings her personal journey to the climate justice fight through her writing, including as a contributing writer to the best selling anthology, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson.