Art Exhibition and Opening Reception: Ephemeral Field Journal: Climate + Love in Claude Monet's Garden

Art Exhibition: January 16-May 18, 2025

Opening Reception: Monday, January 27, 2025, 5-6:30 pm. Please register for the reception.

Where: CSWR Conference Room, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

The Ephemeral Field Journal project invites a deeper understanding of how to care for the environment and each other through an investigation of Claude Monet's gardens at Giverny. 

"I understand Monet’s gardens in Giverny as a creative, living laboratory for “seeing.” Monet constructed the gardens to allow for the viewing and experimentation of the interplay of color and light over time. He was also creating his gardens as he found love, experienced profound loss, and witnessed the effects of war firsthand. In the context of my Ephemeral Field Journal project, the water garden provides an intimate setting to reflect on love and loss. Simultaneously, the pond evolves into a reflecting pool to witness the fragility of nature as climate changes".   

Sarah Schorr is an artist-in-residence at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School and has a studio based in Denmark. Her art is exhibited internationally, and preparations are underway for upcoming exhibitions in parallel with her forthcoming book, Ephemeral Field Journal: Climate + Love in Claude Monet’s Garden (Kehrer Verlag, 2025). Sarah earned her PhD in media studies from Aarhus University in 2017.