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Carol first studied printmaking at Hollins College where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in fine art in 1973. While viewing a Contemporary 1978 Print Exhibition in Boston, she was so struck by the power, beauty and surface quality of the intaglio images that she went back to school to formally study these printmaking techniques. Carol went on to become a partner in Printmakers Inc. workshop/gallery in the nationally acclaimed Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia for nine years.

Author of print articles for the Journal of the Print World and The Artist's Magazine, Carol has served as juror of selection for several organizations including the National Association of Women Artists. Her prints, drawings and original artist's books have receive numerous awards in juried exhibitions across the country and are found in such collections as the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Newport Art Museum and the United States Library of Congress.

A founding artist member of the Art League of Rhode Island, Carol has also achieved the rank of artist member in the Copley Society of Art in Boston; the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Society of American Graphic Artists, the American Artists Professional League, the Audubon Artists and the National Association of Women Artists in New York; the Mystic Art Association and the Printmakers Network of Southern New England in Connecticut; and the Providence Art Club in Rhode Island.

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