Yvonne Pickering Carter

Yvonne Pickering Carter
Born 1939 (age 78–79)
Washington, D.C., United States
Nationality American
Education Howard University

Yvonne Pickering Carter (born 1939) is an African-American painter, performance artist, and educator.

A native of Washington, D.C., Carter earned both her bachelor's degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Howard University. Her work has been included in group exhibitions around the United States, and her multimedia performances were seen at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Walters Art Gallery, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Gibbes Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the University of the District of Columbia,[1] and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[2] Carter taught at the University of the District of Columbia for many years, serving as Chair of Mass Media, Visual and Performing Arts, before retiring to Charleston, South Carolina,[3] where she opened the Gallery Cornelia to showcase African-American art.[4]

Notable works

References

  1. ↑ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  2. ↑ "Water Series #30 - PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts". Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "UDC CONTINUUM…Years of Making Art". Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Gallery Cornelia - March 2007". Retrieved 7 February 2017.


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