Alyssa Martens is an artist, writer, and learning designer born in São Paulo and based in London. She leads experiential art and education projects focused on climate and migration, seeking to connect audiences to the ecological crisis in ways that are both shared and intimate.

To do justice to this work, she brings together artists, designers, technicians, and specialists from across disciplines—poets, composers, ecologists, filmmakers, physicists, and dancers—so that the process of creation mirrors the intimacy of the stories it reveals.

A four-time recipient of Canada Council for the Arts grants, she has developed several major environmental projects, including Lungs of the Earth (a sonic journey into the Amazon, premiered at Lobe Spatial Sound Studio in 2024), In Memory of Colour (her forthcoming debut poetry collection), Terra Poetica (an interactive installation exploring quantum ecology, premiering in 2025), and A Blue Moment (a multimedia installation premiering in 2026, inspired by the Arctic’s “blue moments”).

She collaborates regularly with environmental scientists and specialists from Imperial College London, King’s College London, the Sierra Club, the University of Svalbard, Carleton University, the University of British Columbia, and Yukon University, placing rigorous environmental storytelling at the heart of her artistic practice.

In parallel, she designs creative environmental learning programs for organizations such as Bertha Earth, Sierra Club, ArtStarts Gallery, Vancouver Park Board, Arts & Health: Healthy Aging Through the Arts, Megaphone Magazine, Thrive Youth Development Canada, Bolton Academy of Spoken Arts, University of British Columbia, and numerous schools and community centers.

A member of the League of Canadian Poets, she has been an artist-in-residence at the Spitsbergen Artists Center(Norway, 2023), Sierra Club BC (Canada, 2020), Gullkistan Center for Creativity (Iceland, 2019), and the Bolton Academy of Spoken Arts (Canada, 2016–2019). She holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MEd in Education for Sustainability from the University of British Columbia.