KU professor shows work at arts center

“Mapping the Interior Landscape,” an exhibit by Kansas University professor Carol Ann Carter, will run through Feb. 28 at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H.

She will give an artist’s talk about her work at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Carter was born in Indianapolis. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Herron School of Art of Indiana University and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame. Carter has held teaching positions at schools including Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Penn State University and the University of Michigan, and she joined KU’s faculty in 1996. She also 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 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 and the Burgkloster Kulturforum in Luebeck, Germany.

For more information, call the arts center at 843-2787.