Rachel Garber Cole makes art across performance, video, oral history, text and social engagement to explore our emotional, psychological and sensorial experiences of living in the climate crisis. Through her project-based work she asks, ‘What does it feel like to live on a rapidly warming planet?’ Rachel’s recent project, “The Warmest Years on Record” is an oral history documenting people’s affective encounters with the climate crisis. It launched in June 2022 as a public audio installation in collaboration with NYC GreenThumb and Brooklyn community gardens. Previous work has been exhibited in private galleries, academic institutions and film festivals around the country and the world. Her work has been supported by Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, The Puffin Foundation, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, NARS International Residency Program, The Studios at Key West and other residencies across the country. Her portfolio of Questions for a Dinosaur portrait prints are in the collections of Contemporary Art at the University of Maryland. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three year old.