Syd Carpenter is an artist and Professor of Studio Art at Swarthmore College where she teaches ceramics and drawing. There she is also the inaugural endowed Peggy Chan Professor of Black Studies. She received both her BFA and MFA from the Tyler School of Art in 1976 where she studied with Rudolph Staffel. Her ceramic work includes sculptural as well as functional forms that are inspired by the garden she has tended for over 20 years. Her awards include a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, multiple Leeway Foundation Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Tang Museum of Skidmore College, the Fuller Craft Museum and the James A. Michener Museum as well as many other public and private collections. Her guest artist residencies include Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland, Peters Valley Center, Watershed Center, and Anderson Ranch.
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