Often, when faced with something too big, beautiful, or painful to talk about, we turn to art. Use the imaginative power of art to help people access and interact with concepts as unfathomably huge as nuclear danger. Whether it is a single piece of art that occupies public space to draw attention, a curated installation of nuclear protest art, or an event that draws an audience around artistic expression like theater or poetry, this approach affirms the radical nature of human creativity in the face of threat. 

1. Join forces with an artist to offer an artistic interpretation of a facet of nuclear threat. Artist Eric Lopresti explored the impersonal nature of nuclear weapons by juxtaposing bomb footage with martial arts in his artwork Center Surround, and the trauma and aesthetics of nuclear landscapes in the American west in paintings.
2. Artists like Ikuo Hirayama, a painter who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, inspire remembrance and reverence while championing a message of peace.
3. Protest art can be powerfully symbolic even while silent, like Elina Chauvet’s installation Zapatos Rojos (red shoes), which both honors and protests the disappearance of and violence against women in her city in Mexico.
4. Books are often our entry into a topic and Atomic Sublime by Bombshelltoe is a beautiful example of the most engaging form of writing and design. 

Image credit:  “The Holocaust of Hiroshima” by Takato Kageyama