How to use this website

This website is meant to serve as an educational resource for schools, community groups and anyone else interested in learning about how air pollution affects people, communities and climate change. It's purpose it to engage people in the fight for clean air through lessons about art and air quality and guided activities.

It is structured as a set of videos with accompanying worksheets to be viewed and completed by workshop participants in a group setting led by a teacher or facilitator. Ideally the number of participants is between 8 and 12 and the workshop can take place over one week or several weeks leading up to an exhibition that can be shared with a wider audience to educate others about the issue.

This site also contains supplementary educational material such as links to organizations that are working in this space, media stories about the issue and data about air quality and its effects.

Having said all this, it is encouraged that people use this website in the way that best suits them and the workshop participants. The project was designed to be very flexible. If you have questions or need help carrying out these workshops please contact noe@noemontes.com.

This website is part of an art project by Noe Montes, commissioned by the California Air Resource Board.

Noé Montes was born in Modesto, CA. He grew up in a family of migrant farm workers that traveled throughout California’s Central Valley following harvests. After high school, he worked briefly in the field of electronics before finding the medium of photography. Around the same time, with the goal of helping other people, he began working with community organizations. Over the last twenty-five years, Noé has developed a socially engaged practice in which he creates documentary work around a specific social issue or geographic location. Working with local partners, he then uses that work as a tool for community and civic engagement through programming that includes exhibits, workshops and community dialogues. He also works to integrate the stories of the communities he documents into the American historical narrative.

For more information, visit: www.noemontes.com

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