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Life Festival, Washington, DC. He also created a backdrop New World Dance Co. in
Washington, DC which has been used by the likes of Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly and
entertainer Stevie Wonder; the Millennium Image for The Capital Jazz Fest in
Annapolis, MD, a public commission for Montgomery County in Silver Spring, MD and a
mural for Independent Living Skills Project in collaboration with Blair Underwood in
Oakland, CA.
In addition, Carter has exhibited nationally including the Blair Museum, Hollidaysburg,
PA, the Southern Alleghenies Museum, Johnstown, PA, the Afro-American Historical
and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Artspace Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Ariel
Gallery, New York, NY, the Palm Beach Gallery, Houston, TX, the Ira Pinto Gallery,
Washington, DC, Gallery 10, Washington, DC, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
DC, the Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC, The Smithsonian, Washington, DC, The
Sumner Museum, Washington, DC, Harmony Hall, Ft. Washington, MD, Galerie
Intemporel, Paris, France, American Painting, New York & Washington, DC, the Ratner
Museum, Bethesda, MD and the Pfizer Gallery in New York City.
Carter has won several awards such as the DC Commission on the Arts Technical
Assistance Award, a visiting Smithsonian Institution of Fellowship, several Artist-in-
Residence grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he won the ArTrends
Gallery Choice Awards 2000 for Best Contemporary Artist and received a Pollock-
Krasner Foundation Award in 2006. Additionally, he has held faculty positions at
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania College of Technology, and Slippery Rock
University.
Included in his career are lectures at the Smithsonian Institute, Pennsylvania State
University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Carter has led the non-profit alternative arts
organization Project Brasas since 1991 and is co-founder of the International Peace and
Art Center in Oakland, CA. His bibliography list includes Evening Magazine Channel 2,
the 2-Day Show, Black Chronicle, Pittsburgh Magazine, the Shooting Star Review, The
Washington City Paper, DC Arts, Art Trends Magazine, The Washington Times, The Pitt
Magazine and The Washington Post.
Carter’s list of collectors is diverse, including the Evans Tibbs Collection, The
International Multicultural Arts Foundation, Carnegie Library, the Mosby Lifeline
Publishing Co. and the District of Columbia.
Jennifer Carter, CA Journal of Women Writers, San Diego
Editor in Chief and Contributing Writer of The CA Journal of Women Writers, an online
literary journal devoted to fostering and enhancing the visibility of North American
female authors, and narrowing the wide gender gap found in discussions in the literary
world. I’m also a college professor in rhetoric, writing, and rhetorical analysis of gender