The Chemical Heritage Foundation’s [CHF] upcoming initiative, Sensing Change, an art exhibition that presents innovative methods of experiencing a local environment, connects local concerns to a global change and explores the role of art in science communication. CHF staff have begun exploring methodology by which several important narratives and discussions about the history of science, climate change, and art can be elucidated. Of specific interest are the voices of the artists themselves: their discussions of their own methods and research, their use of science and relationship with the scientific community, and their role in communicating science to the public. Interviews conducted by CHF staff with these artists in their own studios and/or environments have revealed the potential for a more symbiotic relationship between art and science and has exposed the ways in which these communities are already interacting. And in partnership with a complement oral history project (with leading atmospheric scientists), the artistic process can be viewed as a research-based, scientific method in and of itself. These conversations are part of a historical trend that can be traced at CHF, a trajectory of scientists and citizens creating and modifying instrumentation and methodology to sense change in the world around them. From water testing kits to spectrometers that help determine important facts about air quality, instrumentation within the CHF collection puts the conversation and work of both artists and scientists into an already rich history of environmental science and investigation, as well as scientific communication. The initiative’s goals—to communicate science, art, history, and the interactions and intersections of those three fields—is a daunting public history project. While the scientific data and superstorms like the recent Hurricane Sandy put concrete facts in the public eye, climate change is a controversial topic; what’s more, art’s intervention in climate change discourse is still evolving. How might we as historians tackle a narrative that is currently developing? What is our best methodology for starting conversation about how we view the world around us—and what we should do about it? How can we center current discourse in a historic framework? The Sensing Change project is revealing the ways in which our relationship with discovering truths—sometimes uncomfortable truths—about nature is evolving, and how public history projects continue to develop into dialogue-based, interdisciplinary projects.