The Point Reyes National Seashore will commence its first-ever artist-in-residence program tomorrow, a partnership with the Mesa Refuge and the Point Reyes National Seashore Association that will bring three writers and three visual artists to the area to spend a week on projects that focus on climate change. “It’s an important national topic, and something that the park spends time studying,” said Donna Faure, the associate director of PRNSA. The residency is being funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The writers—Lizetta LeFalle, Bay Area a museum curator ; Angela Hume, a poet and critic from Oakland; and Kyle Powys Whyte, a professor from Michigan—will stay at the writers’ refuge, in Point Reyes Station. The visual artists—Eva Bovenzi, a painter from San Francisco; Elizabeth Fenwick, a photographer from Inverness; and Sophie Webb, a wildlife artist and biologist from Santa Cruz County—will stay at the Chief’s House, a residence built in 1927 on Drakes Bay that was once the home of the head of the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station. The park used it for employee housing until about a year ago, when PRNSA took over management of the residence and the Lifeboat Station, both of which the nonprofit uses for its programs and classes. Susan Tillett, the executive director of the writers’ refuge, said that serious thought went into what “essential elements” the artists would need at the Chief’s House: good books, private work rooms and a group space for meals over a table were deemed critical. The six artists will convene at the refuge tomorrow for a meal, and later in the week the seashore’s head scientist, Ben Becker, will take the cohort on an excursion at Chimney Rock to talk about the impact of climate change on the seashore and how the park is trying to prepare. Depending on the artists’ particular interests, the association is also connecting them with other park scientists. Sometime next year, the artists will give a public presentation on their projects. Ms. Fenwick, the photographer who lives in Inverness hasn’t focused specifically on climate change in her work—but in some of her photos, such as a series on Pierce Point Ranch, she has removed evidence of modernity, like roads and buildings, because she wondered, “What it would be like if we could see it the way it was? I’m really nostalgic.” Although she lives close by, she is looking forward to getting “off the grid” at the Lifeboat Station, which has no Wi-Fi. As for what her project will focus on, she is leaving it open to inspiration, but she’s excited that “because I live here, [scientists] will be available to me afterward. I think this is just the beginning of a heartfelt project I can’t yet quite name.”