Courtney Mattison

Courtney Mattison is an artist and ocean advocate working to inspire policy makers and the public to conserve our changing seas. A San Francisco native, Mattison completed an interdisciplinary BA in sculpture and marine ecology at Skidmore College with coursework at James Cook University in Australia. She then spent a year as a fellow at the Harvard Ceramics Program before completing an MA in Environmental Studies at Brown University, where she worked between Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to create a large-scale ceramic coral reef wall installation entitled Our Changing Seas: A coral reef story. This piece debuted at the U.S. Department of Commerce and is currently on loan at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. Mattison is currently creating a new addition to the Our Changing Seas project – Our Changing Seas: An Atlantic and Caribbean coral reef story – for Nova Southeastern University’s new Oceanographic Center. She is also developing her own line of home décor objects to inspire marine conservation under the trade name Corallia. She works out of her “Inland Sea Studio” in the Art District on Santa Fe in Denver, CO.