upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Syd Carpenter is an artist whose current work focuses on African American farming and gardening. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, James A. Michener Museum of Art, Tang Museum of Skidmore College, and the Fuller Museum in Boston, MA, as well as in numerous public and private collections. She has been a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts grants, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, Leeway's Art and Change Grant and Achievement Award, and a residency through Center for Established/Emerging Artists (CFEVA). She is currently Professor of Studio Art at Swarthmore College where she teaches drawing and ceramics.
Other guest artist residencies include Haystack Mountain School, Penland, Watershed and Anderson Ranch.
Recent exhibitions include Making a Difference at the Clay Studio of Philadelphia; a solo exhibition at the African American Museum of Philadelphia titled More Places of Our Own; Creative Hand, Discerning Heart at the James A. Michener Museum; and Faces of Politics: In/Tolerance at Fuller Museum. Solo exhibits also include Mother Pins at CFEVA 2018, and The Noba Gallery in Philadelphia, 2018. Upcoming exhibits include the group invitational at the Flaten Museum of St. Olaf College, MN in Spring 2019 as part of the National Conference on Education in the Ceramic Arts.