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2021 ANNUAL REPORT
The Salt Tree Charitable Trust
A Message from Our Trustees
2021 Seasonal Highlights
Building Our Digital Presence
We continued to cultivate our virtual community in 2021, with:
Digital festivals like our Midwinter Celebration, which featured stories and art around the four ecology topics of our Brings to Light project);
Creative series like artist Cherie Chalouhi’s Patti and Paul the Plants (you can watch the video shorts on Salt Tree Art’s IGTV page);
Online outreach events like the Salt Tree Art virtual table at the 2021 NYC Earth Day Fair & March for Science;
And so much more!
We’re thrilled to be able to connect with a global audience through our virtual work, and look forward to continuing to leverage the opportunities that our online platforms offer.
Growing Our Youth
Education Initiative
Our Earth to Sky environmental learning resource provided the foundation for a range of youth education programming, including an Earth Day call for video submissions from families using the Earth to Sky curriculum, and remote teaching workshops from Salt Tree Art with schools from New York City to Montana.
Returning to In-Person Programs
We were so excited that the 2021 season allowed for the revival of some in-person programming!
Salt Tree Art brought eco-art to community outreach events like the NYC Compost Carnival;
We created some eco-advocating art, like fruit sticker voting placards (to encourage removing stickers from produce scraps before composting);
And we began producing live classes and shows, like our shadow puppetry class and a preview performance of Selene, a new work focused on climate change and animal habitat.
As circumstances allow, we hope to continue a gradual return for our direct programs for the 2022 season!
Eco-Puppetry Festival
Our Eco-Puppetry Festival has become an annual event that highlights artists from across the country with sustainably constructed puppets and ecology-focused puppetry performances! This year’s festival included a dozen puppeteers presenting from a range of puppetry styles and ecological topics.
Wear We Are Going
In our largest project yet, Salt Tree Art launched Wear We Are Going, a nationwide eco-fashion design contest. Partnering with nonprofit VenturaVie in San Francisco, the project created a platform for innovative concepts that demonstrated creativity and hopefulness in addressing global ecological challenges. After a call for submissions throughout the summer, the competition culminated in a virtual fashion showcase with celebrity host Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht.
2021 Financial Snapshot
Sources of Support
Salt Tree Art is proud and grateful for its strong community of support, with 81% of our revenue coming from the generosity of our board members and individual contributors.
Use of Funds
Salt Tree Art continued to apply much of our revenue towards the capital campaign project now underway in 2022. As a volunteer-led, program-focused operation, administration remains a minimal portion of our expenses.
Thank You to Our Community of Support
Board of Trustees
Mike Hollis
Liz McCabe
Brian Soliwoda
Advisory Board
Lauren Alzos
Jordan Benke
Cherie Chalouhi
Nicholas Enna
Nora Fitzgerald
Jennifer Jurek
Ashley King
Steve Krauss
Graham McCarty
JT MGuinness
Kristen Terrana
Supporters
Art Bookout
Corey Buttry
Gail Cassilly & Joan Newman
Max Cassilly
Leanne Costantino
Dustin Curtis
Francesca Domenico
Michele & Charles Hollis
iHeartMedia
Valencio Jackson
Eileen Jurek
Kerrie Keller
Matthew McGloin
Deric McNish
Niles Norton
Michael Perlman
Doug Plummer
Mike Purvis & Stacey Soliwoda
Heidi Rugg
Sarah Schmidt
Margaret Sheehe
Bryant Sterczala
Sue Truman
Penelope Winkler
New Horizons for 2022
Salt Tree Art was born from the vision of a permanent physical space dedicated to the environmental arts. We are thrilled to begin realizing that vision in 2022 with access to land in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. The land provides Salt Tree Art with a foothold in the Berkshires artistic community, as well as a physical space which can be leveraged for the production and performance of environmental art.
Salt Tree Art will maintain its home and its programs within New York City, but will also begin expansion this year by developing new projects and partnerships in Western Massachusetts. We look forward to sharing more information about the land and the ways in which the Salt Tree Art community will have access to and use of the space.
