“Over the course of two years, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (The Wright) worked in unison with its neighbors, the College for Creative Studies(CCS) to create a unique curriculum called the d.Tree Studio. In 2018, when The Wright noticed dying Zelkova trees on their Midtown campus. With this observation, and as part of its mission to be a zero waste institution, the museum decided to form a collaboration with CCS. The goal of the partnership is to use the lumber harvested from the Zelkova trees in a creative endeavor and question how an African American museum and art and design school could set a precedent for climate justice art.”