Palette to Purpose

Camila founded Palette to Purpose at Yale, along with her team Krisha Ramani and Anjal Jain. 

Palette to Purpose is an immersive audiovisual performance designed to spark meaningful conversation about the urgent need for climate action, all while making the event accessible to a broader audience. By pairing up visual artists, composers, engineers, and educators, we create a multisensory exhibit, with tactile and audiovisual presentations that convey pressing environmental issues. The exhibition allows for the visually impaired community to participate, and we incorporate moments of reflection to inspire solidarity with the disabled community.

Through Palette to Purpose, we hope to encourage a global conversation that amplifies the urgency for climate action through art and music. This immersive audiovisual gallery brings together artists and composers, blending two creative mediums to inspire reflection about the environmental challenges we face and the future of our planet.

Our pilot program, held at the Yale Club of New York City in 2024, featured 15 global artists who displayed their pieces on easels, with music accompanying their works. Our hypothesis was confirmed:​ Art initiates powerful, productive conversations.​ This year, we’re scaling up. We have officially partnered with Foundation Fighting Blindness, World Wildlife Fund, New York Public Library, and the Millennium Fellowship. WWF will be providing educators to work with our artist composer teams and New York Public Library is supporting the creation of braille versions of each art piece. Foundation Fighting Blindness will spread the word to the blind community to come to the event. We have assembled our artists and composers for this year, and their compositions are close to ready. 

We will be hosting our New Haven exhibition this March and the New York exhibition in late April.