Mary Carothers addresses the consequences of progress on nature, geographic border issues, and ecological systems as a form of restoration. By incorporating materials that reflect the landscape and cultural resources of a specific location, Carothers’ artwork results in physical documentation of a process that bridges the familiar with the unexpected and asks us to consider what is truthful or illusory.

Mary Carothers received her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has received an Outstanding Public Art Award from Americans for the Arts and an international merit award from COD+A. Carothers' artwork has been acquired by 21c Art Museum and The Great Meadows Estate, and she has received grants from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, Metro United Way, Humana, and The Great Meadows Foundation, among others. Carothers has attended artist residencies at Galeri Svalbard in the Arctic, ChaNorth in the Hudson Valley of New York,  Makers Circle in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, and The Montana Artists Refuge just shy of the Continental Divide. Carothers lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she has worked as a professor at the University of Louisville, Hite Institute of Art & Design since 1998.