Samantha DiRosa is a professor of Art and Environmental Studies at Elon University in North Carolina. Her hybrid-media and installation-based work explores the human urge to objectify, sentimentalize, and mediate our relationship to the present moment and to the natural environment. See www.melancholyobjects.org.

See her work in Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities.