"I define impact art not as a genre but as a methodology one that recognizes aesthetic production as inseparable from ecological and cultural consequence."
From COP30 in Belém to Carnegie Hall in New York, Ekaterina Sky speaks on beauty as a gateway to ecological responsibility, art as cultural infrastructure, and the role of creative practice in a time of environmental collapse. Her talks bring together two decades of work across painting, muralism, and participatory community art into a single proposition: aesthetic experience can reorganize emotional orientation faster than information, and that shift is what makes collective responsibility possible.
Recent Stages
COP30, United Nations Climate Change Conference — Belém, Brazil · Forests of the World (2025) → view official listing
Carnegie Hall — New York · Featured artist and speaker, Forests of the World, as part of Michel Pascal: Hip Hope, Youth for Peace, January 11, 2026 → view official listing
LA Climate Week Opening Ceremony — The Ebell of Los Angeles · Featured Speaker (2025) → view official listing
Miami Art Week – Art & Climate Panel, Coral Gables Museum (2024) → view official listing
Sostenidónos Benefit Art Gala – Los Angeles · Featured Speaker (April 2025)
Uprise for Climate Action – Zebulon, Los Angeles · Artist Talk (April 2025)
Raw Earth Opening Ceremony – Sky Portal X Gallery, Los AngelesOpening Talk and Blessing (April 2025)
Three doorways into the same practice, each shaped for a different audience.
Talks
Forests of The World
Rainforests are not only ecological systems. They are memory, lung, ancestor. The talk moves from Borneo, where the work began, through years of witness across Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and the fire-scarred landscape of Altadena, to the high stages where the work now lands. At its center sits a single proposition: an image can hold what a statistic cannot, and beauty, in a moment of planetary fracture, is not a luxury but a form of remembrance.
Featured at: COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Belém), Carnegie Hall (New York), LA Climate Week opening ceremony.
Best for: climate-focused gatherings, conservation organizations, United Nations and policy convenings, universities, museums and cultural institutions.
Impact Art As Methodology
Two decades of practice across painting, muralism, installation, and participatory community art arrive at a single proposition: aesthetic production is inseparable from ecological and cultural consequence, and art, properly understood, is not a cultural ornament but a form of cultural infrastructure. The talk asks how beauty can become a gateway to responsibility rather than escape, and traces the way visual encounter shifts emotional orientation in ways argument cannot reach.
Best for: design conferences, cultural institutions, graduate seminars in arts and humanities, climate gatherings seeking a framework-level voice.
Prayer For The Earth
Built around watercolor and 24K sustainable gold leaf, Prayer for the Earth transcribes a universal prayer for the planet into visual form, then opens that surface to the community. Participants are invited to add their own written intentions, sealed into the work with gold, transforming each piece into a shared act of reflection. The talk traces the practice from studio to mural, including the Altadena community mural sealed after the 2025 wildfires, and asks what it means to make art that invites the public to enter it as authors rather than viewers.
Best for: arts and culture audiences, contemplative practice communities, faith and interfaith forums, philanthropy and community-led gatherings.
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Artist Bio
Ekaterina Sky is an international visual artist currently based in Los Angeles whose practice explores the relationship between humanity, spirituality, and the natural world. Working across painting, muralism, installation, and socially engaged practice, she creates contemplative works that invite viewers to reflect on their role as stewards of the Earth.
Over the past two decades, her projects have been presented internationally, including large-scale public works in India, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Bali, and Borneo, alongside murals and installations across Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in cultural and environmental contexts such as COP30 in Brazil, Carnegie Hall in New York, the LA Climate Week opening ceremony, Miami Art Week, and the Immobilium global tour alongside works by de Kooning, Pollock, and Rothko.
She is the founder of Prayer for the Earth, an ongoing series of watercolor and 24K sustainable gold leaf paintings in which a universal prayer for the planet is transcribed into visual form. Each work functions as both artwork and contemplative space. In murals and community projects, participants contribute written intentions that are sealed into the work with gold, transforming the artwork into a shared act of reflection.
Through this evolving practice, Sky advances the idea of Impact Art: art that serves not only as aesthetic expression but as a catalyst for ecological awareness, collective authorship, and hope for the future of the planet. She is a Fellow at Elected Officials Protect America and the founder of LA Creatives and leads Arts and Culture at Los Angeles Climate Week .
Press and Recognition
Ekaterina Sky’s speaking and public work has been covered by international media, cultural institutions, and global art platforms.
For Event Organizers
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