Please join us on September 12th from 2-3pm when we'll host Carolyn Monastra for an informal discussion about her exhibit, Divergence of Birds. A reception with refreshments will follow.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Carolyn Monastra received her MFA in photography from The Yale School of Art. For the past twenty years her work has focused on creating and discovering mystery in the natural world. Artist residencies at Ucross, The Djerassi Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and the Saltonstall Foundation among others have given her inspirational environments in which to create her work.

After being on a residency at the Skaftfell Visual Arts Center in Iceland, Carolyn was motivated to begin her project,The Witness Tree, a project to honor and preserve places affected by climate change. For this documentary project, she visited twenty U.S. states, seventeen countries and every continent researching and photographing the climate crisis as well as sustainable solutions. This led her to her current environmental project about the threat of species extinction: Divergence of Birds.

In 2012, she was selected by The Climate Reality Project to become one of their Climate Leaders. Some of Carolyn’s awards include The Zeke Award for Systematic Change (2022 honorable mention) a 2012 production grant from The Puffin Foundation, and a multi-media fellowship from BRIC (2005).

Her work is in the prestigious Marguiles Collection in Miami, Florida, Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, The Johnson & Johnson Corporate Art Collection and has been exhibited in venues across the United States, China, Northern Ireland, and England.