"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
Carnegie Hall, New York · Featured artist and speaker, Forests of the World, as part of Michel Pascal: Hip Hope, Youth for Peace (January 2026) → view official listing
COP30, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Belém, Brazil · Forests of the World (November 2025) → view official listing
LA Climate Week Opening Ceremony, The Ebell of Los Angeles · Featured Speaker (2025) → 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 Angeles · Opening Talk and Blessing (April 2025)
Miami Art Week, Coral Gables Museum · Art & Climate Panel (2024) → view official listing
“There’s something profound about hearing Ekaterina speak. Her words, of course, are always beyond inspiring. More than that, is the wavelength of the room. She makes it vibrate in a way that captures my attention and keeps it.”
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Four doorways into the same practice, each shaped for a different audience.
Each talk is available as a 15 to 45 minute keynote, panel appearance, or moderated conversation, and can be adapted to your program.
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.
Art as a Tool for Social Change
Offered as an interactive workshop or an engaging talk, this session explores the power of art in raising awareness and inspiring action for environmental and social causes. It draws on more than 100 days of silent activism and murals created with grassroots organizations worldwide, and includes hands-on exercises in using art for powerful messaging, collaborative team projects, and techniques that highlight the human and nature connection.
Best for: corporate teams and CSR programs, schools and universities, community organizations, artists and activists.
Artist Bio
Ekaterina Sky is an impact artist working at the meeting of art, spirituality, and environmental action. For five years she has been developing Life Force, a body of work born from her time in the rainforests of Borneo, where she witnessed both the loss of ancient ecosystems and the efforts to restore them. The series asks a single urgent question: how do we choose what we give our life force to?
Alongside it, her Prayer for the Earth series combines watercolor, gold leaf, sacred geometry, and sound into contemplative spaces for reflection. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in China Daily, Voyage LA, and Artists for Conservation. She believes art can shift culture, not only reflect it.
She is a Fellow at Elected Officials Protect America, 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
A speaker one-sheet, including bio, photo, talk topics, technical requirements, and recent speaking history, is available for download.
Invite Ekaterina to Speak
For keynote inquiries, panel invitations, university talks, museum and gallery programming, and convenings on art, ecology, and cultural change, use the form below.