page_title: The Tempestry Project
section_title: Display
hierarchical_section_title: The Tempestry Project / Display
caption_attribution_description: English: The Tempestry Project's display as part of the Museum of Northwest Art's Surge exhibit in the fall of 2018. This collection contains twenty two Tempestries for Deception Pass, WA, each one representing one year of high temperature data starting with January at the bottom. This collection ranges from 1950 on the left to 2017 on the right.
context_page_description: The Tempestry Project is an ongoing collaborative fiber arts project that presents climate change data in visual form through knitted or crocheted artwork. The project is part of a larger "data art" movement and the developing field of climate change art, which seeks to overcome human tendency to value personal experience over data by creating accessible experiential representations of climate change data.
  Tempestries are produced by knitting or crocheting a single row in a specified color representing the high temperature each day for a year, and multiple works are typically displayed together to show change over time. The project began in 2017 in Anacortes, Washington, US, and has since spread throughout the country and around the world.
  The word "tempestry" is a portmanteau of "temperature" and "tapestry."
context_section_description: Tempestry banners are typically hung vertically, the first row (representing January 1) at the bottom and the final row (December 31) at the top, in groupings of two or more to show how daily high temperatures have changed year-to-year in a given location.
  Project pieces were first publicly displayed in Anacortes, Washington. In 2018 projects were displayed at the Museum of Northwest Art  and at the Creative Climate Awards in New York City. In May 2019 a project consisting of 27 tempestries representing 100 years on Orcas Island in 4-year increments was displayed at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiberarts Museum.
  In 2020 pieces were displayed at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art and at Temple University's Ginsberg Health Sciences Library.
caption: Tempestries for Deception Pass, WA, USA (L - R: 1950 to 2017) at the Museum of Northwest Art
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