Charis J Carmichael Braun

The Mark W. Potter Gallery at The Taft School, Watertown CT, is proud to present the work of Charis J Carmichael Braun, whose portraits of beekeepers spread awareness about the different ways we care for bees - in any yard by anyone - and encourages stewardship for a keystone species that nourishes our shared environment. 

I am pleased my work was included in the Long Island Public Arts Festival, hosted in Geiger Park in Deer Park, NY.

I am deeply honored to be included in the 2024 Long Island Biennial: The Body Politic, at the Hecksher Museum in Huntington, New York.

And although the pianos — which are designed by an array of volunteer artists, community members of all ages, and celebrities — are only out in the public for two weeks, the plan is to allow the instruments to continue to have a life influencing others. 

I want to share with you some of my best tips—and some ideas that might surprise you—to help you pull it all together for your upcoming residency.

Bringing together local and international artists based in Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Manhattan these selected works speak to the endless possible deviations from reality as envisioned by an unfettered mind.

In the age of instantaneous messaging, constant updates on news feeds, disposable anything and everything, lives broken down into shorter and shorter segments, catering to our waning attention spans – the works in Human Brevity question whether the soul or the internet is the path to immortality. 

A New Ulm native and photographer for The Journal, Braun volunteered to lead the effort to compile and design a 130-page book, an "active pursuit of one’s local history.”