Planet Texas 2050 Symposium highlights how arts aid in building climate resilience

For the 2025 Planet Texas Symposium, faculty members and graduate students in the Department of Theatre and Dance collaborated to help organize the first day of programming to focus on ways the arts can help build climate resilience. The symposium featured additional sessions with Fine Arts faculty members later in the week. 

Faculty members participated in panels, including “Collaborating for Climate Change: A roundtable discussion between artists and scientists,” with Theatre Associate Professor Katie Dawson, Dance Associate Professor Leah Cox, Theatre Ph.D. student Whitney Mosery, Theatre Assistant Professor Kate Freer, Associate Dean of UTeach Fine Arts and Associate Professor Roxanne Schroeder-Arce and filmmaker Kelly Ashton Todd. 

Theatre and Dance Associate Professor Rosemary Candelario performed aqueous, a site-adaptive performance, in Waller Creek, and Schroeder-Arce facilitated an audience talkback after a performance of her co-authored work Papakō: The Journey.