Mary Carothers artworks are often site-specific, using a socially engaged process as a way to bridge memory and identity with the geography of a specific place or group of people. Carothers’ collaborative project with Sue Wrbican , The Frozen Car (2008) was featured on the Discovery Channel, Floating Seeds (2013), juried by COD+A (Commission of Design and Architecture) received an international merit award and most recently, her sculptural commission Beneath the Surface was recognized by Americans for the Arts as one of 38 of the most outstanding public art projects created in 2015. Beneath the Surface was reinstalled permanently at Great Meadows Estate owned by Al Shands in 2016. Carothers received her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY and her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been a professor at Hite Art Institute, Louisville, Kentucky since 1998.