Media and Press Since 2010

“Fallen Witness Tree Sparks Interpretive Project.” National Trust for Historic Preservation Forum News, April 2010.

“Students Collaborate With National Park Service.” RISD Press Release, Spring 2011.

“Saying Goodbye To The Historic Olmsted Elm.” WBUR Radio, March 29, 2011.

“Tree Hugging Is Back in Style.” Huffington Post, April 1, 2011.

“Exhibit Features Furniture Inspired By History.” Fine Woodworking, April 15, 2011.

“A Witness Reborn.” Boston Globe, October 9, 2011.

“The Witness Tree Project – Art Inspired By Nature.” The Untended Garden, October 20, 2011.

“A Witness Tree Reborn.” American Spirit Magazine, November/December 2011.

“Witness Trees.” Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, March 31 – July 8, 2012.

“Witness Project Bears Witness to History Through Art.” Boston Globe, August 31, 2012.

“Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Commemorates Its ‘Olmsted Elm.’” National Park Service Press Release, August 2012.

"Witness Tree Project: Teaching History and Material Culture Through Object Creation." Material Culture Lecture Series, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, October 22, 2012.

“Witnessing History.” RISD Media Story, August 29, 2014.

“If Thomas Edison’s Trees Could Talk.” Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2014.

“Unearthing the Past.” RISD Media story, June 23, 2015.

“Carving Out a New Identity.” RISD Media Story, May 23, 2017.

"Prospect Park Exhibit Will Display Objects Made From 150-Year-Old Fallen Elm Tree." Untapped Cities, August 14, 2017.

"Tapping Historic Roots." RISD Media Story, September 8, 2017.

"A Fallen Brooklyn Elm Shaped into Objects That Reflect on Immigration." Hyperallergic, September 15, 2017.

"Reconstructing the Past." RISD Media story, June 8, 2018.

“National Park Service Works to Save Mulberry ‘Witness Tree’ by the Washington Monument.” New American Journal, June 20, 2019.

“The Witness Tree Project.” Episode of the Designer-Maker Revolution Podcast. January 27, 2020.

“Bearing Witness Down Under.” RISD Media Story, April 4, 2021.

“Witness Tree 2022 Examines Conservation.” RISD Media story, February 17, 2022.

“The Giving Trees.” The Secret Lives of Parks Podcast, December 20, 2022.