Scholar Chloé Glass presents her research of Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Save Our Air” 1971 print, and the “Save Our Planet” series in which it was published.

Glass’s research reveals the intersections between the “Save Our Planet” series with American cultural diplomacy and the environmental movement of the 1970s. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how the “Save Our Planet” prints were used as ambassadors for conservation and leveraged a language of diplomacy in an act of international cultural persuasion to create a global ecological consciousness.

Chloé Glass (she/hers) is a Yale College History of Art major and Education Studies scholar. She has worked as a Gallery Guide at the Yale University Art Gallery since 2017, designing and leading over 45 collections based highlights tours. For the past year, Glass has been writing her History of Art thesis on Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Save Our Planet Save Our Air” 1971 print in the Yale Art Gallery’s collection. Her research is one of the first to investigate this print, and the larger “Save Our Planet” series, and place O’Keeffe’s work in the context of American environmentalism and cultural diplomacy of the 1970s. Her other extracurricular activities include leading weeklong hiking trips across New England for incoming students for Yale’s First-year Outdoor Orientation Trips program (FOOT) and actively contributing to FOOT’s first public lands educational program. She has also led the Yale women’s water polo club team as Captain.

This was presented on October 6, 2021 as a part of our monthly Mornings with O’Keeffe series.