Caroline
S. Garrett studied painting and printmaking at Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond,VA. She moved
to San Francisco to study illustration at the Academy
of Art College in San Francisco, CA. After three
years of training under Barbara Bradley, Ms. Garrett
moved to London, England. During her eight years
in London, she was elected to the Board of Lectureship
for the London Institute of Art. For eighteen years
she taught a short course once a year with the London
Institute at Camberwell College of Art and Crafts
and the City and Guilds Art College. She earned
her MFA in printmaking at Cranbrook Academy of Art
in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Later she received a grant
to create limited edition picturebooks under the
auspices of Dr. Kenneth Marantz, Chair of the Art
Education Department at Ohio State University. Ms.
Garrett earned a second Masters in Art Education
at Ohio State University with a concentration on
Book Arts.
Caroline Garrett taught illustration at the Savannah
College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georiga for
eight years. She returned to San Francisco to teach
at the Academy of Art College and Napa Valley Community
College in St. Helena,CA.
Caroline lived in New Mexico for three years, teaching
workshops in children’s picturebooks, history
of American Illustration and drawing . Her first
picturebook, Sarah’s Bead, was published Fall
of 2000 by the Divine Mirror Press of Albuquerque,
NM.
In October of 2003 her second picturebook, Jeremiah
written by Marjorie Fay Underhill was published
by Parkway Publishers of Boone, NC. Jeremiah was
chosen to be the 2003 Christmas story for North
Carolina’s NPR WNCW. Click here to listen
Currently she
is a professor in the Fine Arts Department of Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA. She resides in Smithfield,VA.
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