Global InformationThe Tempestry Project information
 Tempestries for Utqiagvik, Alaska (L—R: 1925, 2010, 2016) and Death Valley, California (L—R: 1950, 2016) | |
| Formation | 2017 |
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| Website | www |
The Tempestry Project is a collaborative fiber arts project that presents global warming data in visual form through knitted or crocheted artwork. The project is part of a larger "data art" movement and the developing field of climate change art, which seeks to exploit the human tendency to value personal experience over data by creating accessible experiential representations of the data.
Tempestries are made by knitting or crocheting rows in specified colors that represent respective high temperatures each day for a year. Multiple works are typically displayed together to show change over time. The project began in 2017 in Anacortes, Washington, US, and has since spread throughout the country and around the world.
The word "tempestry" is a portmanteau of "temperature" and "tapestry."