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CHAIR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Art Education, 2-D Foundations, Drawing, and Book Arts

CONTACT
PO Box 8032
233 Pittman Drive
Statesboro, Georgia 30460

Office: Center for Art & Theatre, 2006
Phone:  (912) GSU-5472
Facs: (912) GSU-5104
Email: pwcarter@GeorgiaSouthern.edu

EDUCATION
MFA — Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ. 1989.
MED Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA. 1993.
BA Rutgers University, Douglass College for Women, New Brunswick, NJ. 1987.

TEACHING
Generalist with specialties in foundations, paper/book arts and mixed media studio and art education.

Georgia Southern University Award for Distinction in Teaching, 2001

COURSES TAUGHT
Art Appreciation: ART in LIFE!
Art Education: Elementary Art Education Methods and Practicum
Foundations: Drawing and 2D Design
Drawing: Experimental and Illustration
Paper and Book Arts
Mixed Media: Collage and Assemblage

CREATIVE RESEARCH

Practicing artist specializing in mixed media collage and assemblage, drawing, printmaking, handmade paper and book arts; research, publication and program development in the visual arts.

SELECTED WORKS
Voodoo Birds & Urns of Mojo
Take-Out
Nostalgic Neighborhood
96 Things I Did in One Day
Black and Blue

Nostalgic Neighborhood Series

 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Spine Bending Thrillers, Rider University, New Jersey, November 2003
Swatch Swap 2003 BeachGrove Paper, Sydney Austrailia, November 2003
Treewhispers, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, June 2003

PUBLICATIONS
Instructional Materials, Instructor's Guide, Student Study Guide
World of Art Supplements
Art FormsSupplements
Art Connections
Georgia Artists Collection at Georgia Southern University

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Your Cultural Conscience
Musing on Mona
Multiple Hemispheres

ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I confront the paradoxical concepts of familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and publicity, using fabric and thread, patterns and papers, and found images that I collect from