Carter was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received her BFA degree from the Herron School of Art of Indiana University, and her MFA degree from the University of Notre Dame. Carter has held teaching positions at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN, Penn State University, and the University of Michigan, and joined the faculty of KU in 1996. In addition, she is a member of the Lawrence Arts Center's Committee on Imagination & Place and serves on the Center's Gallery/Exhibition Committee.
Carter has been the recipient of a National Endowment Individual Artists Award, a Lilly Foundation Open Faculty Fellowship for sabbatical research in Nigeria, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral for Minorities Fellowship and a J. W. Fulbright Fellowship for research in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1995 she was the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas, and immediately thereafter became a full-time faculty member at KU. In 2000, she was awarded a Kansas Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship.
Carter's artwork has been shown nationally and internationally in numerous individual and group exhibitions including The Detroit Institute of Art, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, The Cinque Gallery in New York, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Burgkloster Kulturforum in Luebeck, Germany, and in Chicago and Detroit. Public collections include the Snite Museum, Notre Dame, IN, The Las Vegas Museum, The Santa Reparata Print Studio in Florence, Italy, and The Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Carol Ann Carter's creative work began with intaglio printmaking and advanced to mixed media painting and fiber construction in 1984. She is currently working in multimedia installation/performance, mixed media and digital imaging and video and is interested in collaboration across cultures and disciplines in the arts.
"I practice movement and exchange of elements across boundaries,"Â said Carter. "I am motivated by the dialogues among materials, intelligence or disciplines-by a kind of character conversion where one thing influences or develops by virtue of occupying space with another." -- www2.ku.edu
Posted January 30th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
