Into the Unknown Together is a community climate anthology containing stories, artwork, essays, poetry and more from 33 contributors based in the eco-regions of New Mexico. The publication is a creative compilation of collective future visions imagining a world beyond extraction and oppression in a time of climate adaptation.
What new stories need to be spoken into the world so that we may move toward them? How can art open new pathways to what is possible? What can you see beyond the horizon from your unique perspective?
About the Project
This project was generously funded by the New York Foundation for the Arts Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) Environmental Art Grant and community GoFundMe donations.
For inquiries on the project or collaborations, send us a note!
“In the poetics of struggle and lived experience, in the utterances of ordinary folk, in the cultural products of social movements, in the reflections of activists, we discover the many different cognitive maps of the future, of the world not yet born.”
-Robin D. G. Kelley
Creative Team
Autumn Leiker
Creative direction & design
Autumn is life-centered designer, communications strategist, and climate futurist. Their work focuses on supporting communities and organizations to forge a sense of belonging that is grounded and resilient.
She has recently worked on climate campaigns and installations for the Nature Conservancy, curated a day-long community procession down the Santa Fe River, and serves on the Water Conservation Committee for the City of Santa Fe. Autumn received a B.S. in Society and Environment from UC Berkeley and graduated from Weaving Earth’s Relational Education program.
Chelsea Call
Art program direction
Chelsea is a queer artist, art therapist, facilitator, teacher, creative doula, amateur herbalist, and co-conspirator currently located in O’gah Po’geh Owingeh, the ancestral, unceded land of the Tewa Peoples of Northern New Mexico. Her work focuses on generating kinship between human and the more-than-human in a time of climate collapse. Amalgamating visual, somatic, and ecological processes she traverses the mediums of photography, writing, installation, drawing, and socially-engaged practices. Chelsea received her Master of Arts in Counseling & Art Therapy from Southwestern College in 2018, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State University in 2013.
Susan DeFreitas
Editor
An American of Guyanese descent, Susan is the author of the novel Hot Season, which won a Gold IPPY Award, and the editor of Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, a finalist for the Foreword INDIES. Her work has been featured in the Writer’s Chronicle, LitHub, Story, the Huffington Post, Daily Science Fiction, Oregon Humanities, and elsewhere. An independent editor and book coach, she divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Portland, Oregon.
