The Brooklyn Muskrat
by Elizabeth Albert

Elizabeth Albert’s first book, Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront received critical acclaim, including articles, interviews and/or mentions in The New York Times, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, Hyperallergic, Brick Underground, and others. Invited speaking engagements included The Brooklyn Historical Society, Greenlight Books, The Brooklyn Public Library, The Gotham Center for New York History, Marymount Manhattan College, Poet’s Society, and Hunter College.

 

Albert has received grants and fellowships from the NEA/ Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., Byrdcliffe, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Her paintings and works on paper are exhibited nationally and are in the collections of the Butler Institute, the Naples Art Museum. She is an Associate Professor at St. John’s University in New York, and lectures internationally on the intersection of art, history, and the environment.