Interviewees

Mia Hanak

Mia Hanak is the Founding Executive Director of the Natural World Museum, an organization committed to inspiring sustainable culture through the arts in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She leads the team that produces the innovative Art for the Environment global exhibition series. She has been nominated by the American Association of Museums as a "Museum Leader for the Next Generation."

Videos featuring Mia Hanak

  • Art and Social Change

    Museum director Mia Hanak describes how art documents what is happening in the surrounding environment, while offering new ways of thinking and inspiring change.

    (3 min 17 sec)

  • Fear and Beauty

    Museum director Mia Hanak describes how using beauty rather than fear to promote change draws people into action.

    (1 min 33 sec)

  • Seeing the Impact

    Museum director Mia Hanak gives one example of how our patterns of consumption are impacting other parts of the world, illustrating the need for greater awareness about the choices we make.

    (3 min)

  • Collective Change

    Museum director Mia Hanak says that real change can't happen without involvement from all levels of society and describes how art can bring individuals and agencies together in an environment that inspires change.

    (2 min 24 sec)

  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

    Museum director Mia Hanak sees changes happening in the way we consume but says we could do a lot more to reduce, reuse and recycle.

    (2 min 3 sec)

  • A Global Citizen

    Museum director Mia Hanak describes what it means to be a global citizen and asks, what can we give back to the world?

    (1 min 38 sec)
"I believe that the connection between culture, art and the environment is an important one, and one that, in this day and age, has been lost."
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