Heritage & Culture · Ongoing

Community Contours in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Jill Pelto

Community Contours in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Jill Pelto is presented in partnership with the Pathways to Resilience QEP, a 5-year (2024-2029) climate literacy initiative at Appalachian State University. This important university-wide initiative encourages students’ climate literacy and climate response-ability—the capacity to participate in positive climate action in our professions and our communities, from local to global. Pelto's watercolor series encapsulates species resilience amidst changing habitats across the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Pelto describes how, "my experi