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Syd Carpenter
Syd Carpenter (born 1953) is an African Americans, African American artist and a retired professor of studio art. She is known for her ceramic and sculpture work, which explores African-American farming and gardening. She has received multiple fellowships, including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Pew Fellowship and an National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Fellowship, and her work is currently in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection. Early life and education Carpenter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1953. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelors of Fine Art in 1974 and Master of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Art in 1976 from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Career In 1991, Carpenter began teaching at Swarthmore College as a Professor of Studio Art, where she would teach until her retirement in the fall of 2022, resulting in the college no longer offering ceramic clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler School Of Art And Architecture
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is based at Temple University, a large, urban, public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tyler currently enrolls about 1,350 undergraduate students and about 200 graduate students in a wide variety of academic degree programs, including architecture, art education, art history, art therapy, ceramics, city and regional planning, community arts practices, community development, facilities management, fibers and material studies, glass, graphic and interactive design, historic preservation, horticulture, landscape architecture, metals/jewelry/CAD-CAM, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and visual studies. Founded in 1935 by Stella Elkins Tyler and sculptor Boris Blai in nearby Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, Tyler moved to a new, 255,000-square-foot facility at Temple's Main Campus in 2009 with the cornerstone financial support of an allocation of $61.5 million from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2012, Tyler's Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |