Immerse yourself in Fever Dreams of a Cool-Breathed Earth, a new exhibition created for the Worcester Art Museum by Christa Donner and Andrew S. Yang. Their first joint museum exhibition and largest collaboration to date, the multi-sensory installation situates the experience of weather and the seasons in an examination of climate change in the twenty-first century. The artists propose that: “as warm-blooded creatures on an intensely warming Earth, we find ourselves seeking new ways to adapt our bodies to the planetary one—both have a fever in need of cooling. This exhibition reflects on climate-driven extreme heat and visualizes the deeply material and figurative relationship of our bodies to the changing planetary body as complex systems in transformation.” 

Fever Dreams of a Cool-Breathed Earth is a multimedia installation featuring drawing, sculpture, sound, and video. The artists approach the ongoing threat of climate change in conversation with communities regional to the Worcester Art Museum; like many other American cities, Worcester faces issues of extreme urban heat exacerbated by global warming. The perspectives of Massachusetts-based climatologists, community gardeners, and local residents will inform the art Donner and Yang create. More information on art experiences and programming will be announced in 2026.