About
Eve Morgenstern was born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in Art History from Vassar College. Eve has been awarded artist residencies at MacDowell, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace and grants from Chicken and Egg Pictures, New York State Council on the Arts, the Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund, the George Gund Foundation, the Park Foundation, and nextPix/firstPix.
She is founder and director of Soon Is Now, a climate and eco live performance, art and activism project at Scenic Hudson's Long Dock Park on the Hudson River in Beacon, NY. Recent press: Beaconites! podcast , "Embracing the Trend Towards Climate Optimism and Joy," Hudson Valley Viewfinder Magazine, and "Art as Activism" in Chronogram.
Her documentary film, Cheshire, Ohio about the buyout of a town by a coal fired polluting power plant has screened in festivals in the US, Canada and Asia. The film is distributed by Bullfrog Films, the leading US publisher of independently-produced documentaries on environmental and related social justice issues (link) and ovid.tv (link).
Her photographic project Facades of Crises produced during years of making commissioned videos for the government on the housing crises, had its solo show Museum premiere at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden. The project was also exhibited at the Midwest Center for Photography and published in a special Le Monde magazine issue on America during the Obama administration.
Photo by Michael Isabell