Northeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Carolyn Monastra

Friday, October 24, 2014 @ 5:40pm, Clark Theater

The Witness Tree

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Carolyn Monastra received her MFA in photography from The Yale School of Art. After being on an artists' residency in Iceland, she was motivated to begin The Witness Tree documenting the effects of climate change around the world. Over the past four years she has photographed in thirteen US states, seventeen countries and on every continent. In 2012, she was trained by The Climate Reality Project to give slideshow presentations about the climate crisis. Carolyn's awards include a travel grant from the English Speaking Union, a multi-media fellowship from BRIC, and a production grant from the Puffin Foundation. Her work is in the prestigious Marguiles collection in Miami and has been exhibited in venues across the United States as well as in China and Ireland. The artist currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.