Carolina Pfister is a writer-artist and nonprofit person who did the bulk of her growing up in Brazil with quick interludes abroad. She last came to the USA for an MFA and ended up an incidental immigrant. Now a nonprofit director in the Pacific Northwest and a maker of audio stories.
As a resident of the land of in-between — a common phenomena for the multi-cultural set — Carolina believes that to be present and engaged with our communities and place is at the heart of what it means to be home.
CultureSeed
I See You
carolinapfister at gmail dot com
ARTIST TIMELINE
2020 Artist Residency Hypatia-in-the-Woods
2019 Artist Residency Caldera Community
2019 Third Coast International Audio Festival & Conference Volunteer Cohort
2019 Artist Talk: ScaleHouse Voices
2019 Essay: Motherhood is not a gap on my resume - Motherhood Magazine
2018 Artist Residency Caldera
2017 Grant: Regional Arts and Culture Council Project
2015 Essay: Worldviews - Planet Drum
2014 Screenings by invitation: Indie Festival, Matilha Cultural (São Paulo, Brazil)
2013 Screening: Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo, BR
2013 Screenings: Official Selections: Chicago International Movies and Film Festival, In-Edit Brasil, CBGB Festival, Curitiba International Film Festival, 7˚ Festival CineMúsica
2013 Award: Silver Documentary Feature at JamFest Film Fest
2013 Screenings by invitation: Reciprocity, Blackwater Records
2005 Award: Women in Film Emerging Latina Filmmaker
2003 Screenings: Chicago Women's Film Festival, Chicago Anarchist Film Festival
2002 Award: Chicago Emmy Outstanding Achievement for Informational Programming
2002 Essay: Bikini Border Bandit - Bored Mag
2001 Short Film featured in a Miranda July Chainletter Tape
2001 Segment producer for Public Television
2000 MFA Teaching Assistant Full Scholarship
90's Art Director for MTV Brasil, music & zines
NONPROFIT TIMELINE
2018 - now: Executive Director for CultureSeed, a nonprofit organization serving youth and communities in the Columbia Gorge region of the Pacific Northwest. CultureSeed provides connection to nature, self and others for our most vulnerable communities—to underserved youth, with our Year-Round Outdoor & Community Engagement Youth Cohort, to the incarcerated, through our Bending the Bars program. Recent interview.
2011- 2012 Communications Director for Mozambique based Permaculture Reference Center
2008 - 2010 Communications Director & Environmental Justice Program Coordinator for Chicago based international relief NPO
2008 Volunteer Food Security communications and outreach for urban permaculture, São Paulo (BR)
2007 Signature Leadership Evanston Program Scholarship
2006 - 2007 Co-founder & Executive Director for Chicago based inner city cultural center
2007 Volunteer co-founder inner city farmer's market
2002 - 2005 Art Educator for inner city Milwaukee nonprofit
90's - Art Educator Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (BR)