CLAIRE SIANNA SEAMAN is a painter, filmmaker, and printmaker from Leavenworth, WA, whose work grapples with the human relationship to the natural environment. More than an attempt to come to terms with and climate change, she seeks to share and cultivate community-based solutions to the climate crisis through art.
 
She holds a BA from Smith College in Studio Art, with a concentration in Climate Change. Since graduating from college in 2020, Claire has been featured in the Wild and Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition and received an Artist Trust GAP Award. She was chosen for the Conservation, History, and Art (CHA) Residency from the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts and the Olympic National Park Terminus project.
 
In 2021, she was chosen to work with scientists from the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group to create an art piece that imagined climate resiliency in the Pacific Northwest. She is currently earning her MA in human geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C.

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This scholarship is a huge help in funding my master’s research. Following my passion for communicating environmental issues and climate solutions through art, my research aims to create a documentary film that explores the possibilities for reciprocity and resilience in Leavenworth’s own Icicle Creek Watershed. Through interviews with people connected to the canyon, I hope to inquire into the possibilities for climate resilience through intentional land management, including reconsidering settler relations and understandings of the land. I am so thankful for Art in the Park’s support, it makes the work I am doing so much more meaningful when the community is able to support this work and be involved!