local people and hear their stories. Heidi Quante, a creative coordinator with the climate action group 350.org, reported that "Eve really found a new way of teaching people... Her art was so good, she became a magnet. And when people learn by asking rather than being told, they retain the information better." Two years later, when Hurricane Irene approached, areas below Mosher's HighWaterLine were evacuated. Luckily Irene veered away from the city. Four years later, Mosher's predictions were strikingly validated when the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy flooded many of the areas she had traversed. American Scientist reports that "High Water Line is an invitation to understand, to act, and to prepare. But if political solutions to climate change don't materialize soon, it may also be an invitation to come to terms with loss." Miami, Florida In Miami, HighWaterLine was collaboratively installed after considerable advance planning and work by Eve Mosher, Heidi Quante and volunteers from the community-led Resilient Miami action group. More than 70 different residents marked the line in their own neighborhoods, each passing the field marker to the next person. The result was a 26-mile-long continuous line, created over three days, November 13, 14, and 17, 2013. Mosher intentionally expanded her engagement with the community before and after the project, but the goal of interacting with people continued to be creating conversations and awareness. "I really believe that using creativity in taking on the complex challenges of climate change is a way to allow everyone to participate. Putting those tools in the hands of individual community members allows them to go into their own neighborhood and bring their neighbors into the conversation in ways that no one outside of the community can do." She has also worked with Patricia Watts and Amy Lipton to develop a "HighWaterLine ACTION GUIDE", to help people locally engage with their communities and develop their own installations of HighWaterLine. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania An installation of HighWaterLine occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May 2014. Mosher worked with local Philadelphia residents to draw a thick chalk line through four miles of sidewalks and streets in the Kensington, Fishtown and Port Richmond neighborhoods. Philadelphia's ten-foot zone includes numerous industrial and factory sites: flooding would impact a number of Superfund sites, polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. References Artists from New York City Year of birth missing (living people) Living people