Multimedia artist and writer Carolina Pfister has worked with television, art organizations, and youth serving nonprofits in both Brazil and the USA. She received an Emerging Latina Filmmakers Award from Women in Film, was a recent mentee with Writer to Writer AWP’s Mentorship Program, and is currently editing her non-fiction debut. Originally from Brazil she now lives in a forest outside of Portland, OR.
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Artista multimídia e escritora Carolina Pfister trabalhou com television, organizações de arte, e ONGs no Brasil e nos EUA. Recebeu o prêmio Emerging Latina Filmmakers Award da Women in Film e, recentemente, foi parte do programa Writer to Writer da Association of Writing & Writing Programs (AWP). Atualmente está editando seu primeiro livro. Hoje Carolina vive em uma floresta na costa oeste does EUA.
For inquiries, please contact Carolina.
Instagram: carolina.pfister
ARTIST TIMELINE selects:
2020-23 Artist Residency Hypatia-in-the-Woods; Mentee with Writer to Writer AWP’s Mentorship Program
2019 Artist Residency Caldera Community; Artist Talk ScaleHouse Voices; Third Coast International Audio Festival & Conference Cohort
2016-18 Artist Residency Caldera; Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant
2013-14 Selected screenings: Indie Festival, Matilha Cultural and Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo, Brazil), Chicago International Movies and Film Festival, In-Edit Brasil, CBGB Festival, Curitiba International Film Festival, 7˚ Festival CineMúsica
2001-05 Miranda July Chainletter Tape; Women in Film Emerging Latina Filmmaker Award, Chicago Emmy Outstanding Achievement for Informational Programming; Chicago Women's Film Festival and Chicago Anarchist Film Festival screenings
90's-2001 Segment producer for Public Television; MFA Teaching Assistant Full Scholarship; Art Educator for Walker's Point Center for the Arts; Art Educator for the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (BR); Art Director for MTV Brasil
NONPROFIT TIMELINE selects:
2018 - ongoing: Executive Director for CultureSeed, a nonprofit in the Columbia Gorge, the largest national scenic area in the United States and a rural region with pronounced economic disparities. CultureSeed offers youth free and ongoing Outdoor Immersion and Mental Health programs.
2011-13 Communications Director for Mozambique Permaculture Reference Center
2008-10 Communications Director & Food Security Program Coordinator for Chicago international relief NPO
2006-07 Co-founder & Executive Director for youth cultural center; Volunteer co-founder farmer's market; Signature Leadership Evanston Program Scholarship
≈burning houses on homepage by @tomasspicolli
≈portrait by Salton Sea by @andrew_kuykendall