Founded in 2020, CICADA (Core Initiative of Climate Artists Demanding Action), is a collection of artists working within climate justice and the climate crisis. The organization’s goal is to use its collective capacity to express complex ideas and tell stories in ways that inspire action towards a better future. CICADA brings together creative visionaries from across disciplines to help amplify the voice of the planet and our call to action. The climate crisis is the definitive feature of humanity and artists have been on the front lines facing this reality and expressing their knowledge alongside scientists for decades. CICADA unites and supports these artists because working together we can have an even greater impact.

Ava Fedorov is a Honolulu-based artist, writer, and educator who is originally from a remote region of Upstate New York. With a background that also includes design and film, Ava pulls from all realms of her creative knowledge to create immersive art experiences that blur the lines of genre. She is passionately engaged in climate and environmental activism, which creates a thematic backdrop for her abstract paintings, poetry, and conceptual work. Ava’s work has been exhibited, collected, and published internationally and she has been honored to collaborate with artists and art institutions across the world. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a PEN America award and she is a two-time John Young Scholar in the Arts awardee. Ava teaches studio art at Hawai‘i Pacific University and is the founder and president of CICADA.