RegenALL Youth Climate Art Exhibition
In 2026, RegenAll’s Youth Climate Art Exhibition will be a pre-event component of RegenAll’s Annual Climate Summit. Students from around the county will have the opportunity to express their vision of a thriving, resilient, and sustainable “green future” to promote creative and hopeful thinking for the next generation. We hope that their work will inspire decision-makers, lawmakers, and community members to see a better future for our shared environment.
The exhibition will be held November 8 – 15 at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design’s Welcome Center (241 N. Prince Street, Lancaster, PA ) with an opening reception on Friday, November 13, 2026 from 5 – 7:30 pm.
A slideshow of the artwork will be shown at RegenAll’s Climate Summit at Hoffer Farm
(547 N Penryn Rd, Manheim, PA 17545) on Saturday, November 14, 2026.
There are several ways to submit work!
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Create artworks at home! Artwork can be submitted digitally OR physically to Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, 204 N Prince Street, Lancaster, PA 17603. See below for how to prepare your artwork for entry.
- Physical artworks can be created in partner workshops and daycamps. Workshop and camp options are below!
The RegenAll Climate Summit brings together communities to build resilience to climate change. Through a full day of panel discussions, expert-led workshops, interactive activities, and resource sharing, the summit advances climate solutions that make our communities stronger.
This year’s Climate Summit will take place on Saturday, November 14, 2026 at Hoffer Farm.
It will focus on weaving the elements of community resilience: energy independence, food security, ecological regeneration, carbon neutrality, and thriving communities. These five elements are guiding the early development of our Community Resilience Plan, a blueprint for collectively building local protections against the effects of climate change.
All are welcome! Find more information abou the summit at https://regenall.org/.
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
Explore these FREE workshops at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design! Registration is limited.
Visual Poetry Workshop: Grades 10 - 12 | October 17
- Instructor: Professor and Poet Caitlin Downs
- Saturday, October 17
- 12:30 – 2:30 PM
- Description: Combining skills in collage and erasure, this session introduces students to the myriad ways of crafting visual poems. Supplies will be provided—all you need to bring is an eye for the arrangement of text and images. Led by the Department Chair of the Creative Writing BFA, Caitlin Downs, the session is a guided opportunity to build your own visual narrative.
(Mini) Enviro-Zine Making 101: Grades 7 - 10 | October 17
- Instructor: Illustrator and PCA&D Graduate Laurence Jacoby
- Saturday, October 17
- 10 AM – 12 PM
- Description: This is a mini-zine making class for students in grades 7-10. This class will cover how to make an 8-page mini-zine and its many uses. The main goal of this class is to understand what goes into making a mini-zine and how they can be used as a tool for communicating ideas and opinions through art. In addition to mini-zine production, students will learn mixed-media techniques; they will first brainstorm ideas for their zines and create a hard copy by collaging from recycled magazines and hand-drawn illustrations. Then, once they are done with their hard copy, they will learn how to copy and fold their zines. Walking away with 6 mini zines with their idea of a more environmentally conscious future.
Love Letters to Tomorrow: Collage Workshop: Grades 4-6 | October 24
- Instructor: Sam Sweigert
- Saturday, October 24
- 10 AM – 12 PM
- Description: There are endless ways to find and use our creative voices to uplift and advocate for things important to us! In this workshop, students in grades 4-6 will learn more about how poetry can communicate our values by using found objects and magazines to write their own blackout poem. Together, we’ll explore examples of collage poems and discuss how to reuse materials to create something new before writing and collaging our own!
Exploring Recycled Materials - Landscapes: Grades 1-3 | October 24
- Instructor: Misia Palad
- Saturday, October 24
- 12:30 – 2:30 PM
- In this workshop, we will be making a farm or river scene out of recycled materials. The goal for this class is to use our materials to create a fun and cool collage of the scene while we think about ways to continue to recycle and keep our planet healthy. Let’s go experiment with all sorts of random materials we can recycle and reuse to make a really cool landscape!
Lancaster Science Factory
The Lancaster Science Factory offers day camps at various times throughout the year. Kids in grades K – 8 can spend their days off from school and holiday breaks engaging in fun hands-on STEM and exploring our expansive exhibit hall. Their October 12 Day Camp is dedicated to exploring art and our visions for a future healthy climate! Come and create works to submit to the RegenALL climate exhibition in November!
Each full-day camp is $80 per student.
Scholarships are available for families with a financial need. Click here to complete the SCHOLARSHIP application online.
create at home
If you cannot attend a workshop or daycamp, you can create artworks at home! Download our entry form to review instructions for 2D, 3D and digital artwork submission.