SPRINTS x
TEDxGuatemalaCity

Use these awesome visuals.
Act for climate now.

About SPRINTS

Countdown, TED’s initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, and Fine Acts – a global creative studio for social impact, joined forces to kick off a series of SPRINTS creative bootcamps on climate change around the world. The goal: to engage artists to envision what a better climate future looks like. Today, this has grown into an extraordinary global collaboration with 20 TEDx events, collectively hosting 22 SPRINTS.

SPRINTS is an original format, developed by Fine Acts – a creative bootcamp where visual artists are briefed on a topic by experts, and then have 48 hours to produce an artwork on that specific issue. Throughout the process, artists are supported by a pool of mentors. Each edition of SPRINTS also ends with a public pop-up exhibition.

Furthermore, all visuals are published under an open license, so that activists, nonprofits, movements and educators globally can use and adapt them in their work towards climate action.

In 2023/2024, we collaborated with 13 events, hand picked by the TEDx Program. We supported the amazing TEDx teams to select awesome local visual artists, organize effective creative bootcamps and inspiring public exhibitions, and curate a host of brilliant illustration collections.

As a result, hundreds of new artworks joined our unique Artists for Climate vault with open-licensed visuals on climate change. Selected works were also featured on Fine Acts’ global platform for free socially-engaged art – TheGreats.co, where they joined The Climate Collection, an invaluable public resource with a distinct focus on hope & solutions.

Meet the awesome artists (from left to right): Michi González, Yavheni De León (Ambar N.1), Dennisse Cruz, Discordia Hermanos, Abraham Mendoza Yataz (Ibraart), Jonnathan De León (Jonas), Marié Sierra, Morena Clay, Sandra Arizandieta, Sindy Coxaj (Singular García)

Our event in Guatemala

In 2023, we partnered with TEDxGuatemalaCity – one of the most prominent TEDx events in Guatemala. The amazing team of TEDxGuatemalaCity hand-picked a powerful group of 10 local creative voices, organized a creative bootcamp and a public exhibition, and curated and produced the brilliant collection below.

“The event was very successful, yes. But it was also very beautiful. It was the community and the relationships that grew from these two days of sharing everything together, this was really, really great. It was beautiful to see how, in this very little time, they grew this connection, and at the end of the event they had moved from acquaintances to friends, exchanging contacts and wanting to do more stuff together“, shares María Renée Morales Lam, who worked with the TEDxGuatemalaCity team on the curation of the SPRINTS event.

The Bootcamp & Exhibition

Photos: TEDxGuatemala City; Cohete Studio

Reflections

““The process is a beautiful reminder of the power that exists within the arts, and in collective creative work. As one of the artists mentioned, we must not forget that little actions collectively can have a big impact. Regardless of the fact that the event was only two days long, I believe it did have a big impact on the artists and on everyone who saw their artworks.”

— María Renée Morales Lam, curator, SPRINTS x TEDxGuatemalaCity

“Something that worked as a spark – the artists were very engaged and were really willing to give their all, because they knew that what they’re doing is gonna have a greater impact, and it’s gonna be used by other people around the world.”

— María Renée Morales Lam, curator, SPRINTS x TEDxGuatemalaCity