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1. Variations, 2006, mixed media, handmade paper, found objects, tin box, joss paper,      balls, 12” x 30” x 3”
2. Sacred, 2007, mixed media with paper pulp and found objects including rusty tools,      fur, modified 19th Century book, 18" x 18" x 7"
3. Introspection, 2006, mixed media, textured paper pulp and found objects including      galvanized steel funnels, mirrors, bead chain, 20” x 20”w x 9”
4. Hope, 2004, handmade paper, mixed media, gold leaf and found objects including      industrial brush, wood finial, shells, shirt buttons, 23” diameter x 7”
5. Potential, 2006, handmade paper, mixed media, ball, zippers, 28” diameter
6. The Four Directions, 2005, mixed media, handmade paper and pulp, found objects      including rusty hardware, copper springs and tubing, broom straw, brass findings
      and Argentine coins, 35” x 35” x 3”
7. Basket Shield, 2004, mixed media, paper pulp and found objects including cord,
     cotter pins, map pins, copper tacks, 39” x 9” x 4”
8. Stream, 2006, mixed media, paper pulp, wooden hairbrushes, 52" x 11" x 4”
9. Cymbal Shield, 2006, mixed media, paper pulp and found objects including a broken
     cymbal, rusty and patinaed metal hardware, brass tacks, artificial hair, 30” x 20” x 3”
10. African Shield, 2003, handmade paper and mixed media with found objects
       including studded belt, pickup sticks, straight pins, 36” x 20” x 3”
11. Southwest Shield, 2003, mixed media, handmade paper and found objects including
       brass casting, shells, map pins, 24” x 24” x 3”
12. Azteca, 2005, mixed media, textured paper pulp and found objects including brush,
       rusty washers, brass tacks, 20” x 32” x 6”
13. City of Gold, 2003, mixed media, handmade paper and found objects including
       tacks, beads, clothespins, hardware, 32” x 74” x 6”
14.  Three Part Folding Screen, 2003, handmade paper, mixed media, brass tacks,
         64” x 72” x 2”
15. Turn of the Century, 1999, hand painted reinforced fiberglass, cast from the original
        sculpture made of handmade paper, mixed media and over 500 familiar objects,
        44" diameter x 10"  decorated on both sides

Contact Information
Box 164
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
tel: 610-664-2825
e-mail: carol@carolcole.com
www.carolcole.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Bio
Carol Cole's mixed media sculptures are inspired by the works of ancient tribal artists and architects -- archetypal forms that speak a universal language. Her incorporation of contemporary found objects makes an ironic comment on our culture.

Her award winning work has been included in many prestigious national and regional shows and is in collections around the country.  Numerous professional offices, hospitals, corporations, religious and educational institutions have commissioned custom sculptures.

In addition to working in her Philadelphia studio, Cole teaches papermaking and collage at the Main Line Art Center in Haverford PA, and has taught at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington and University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She also offers a motivational workshop for artists called “Doing What Comes Naturally.” 

Cole was named the Panta Rhea Foundation 2002 Mentor of the Year, and was chosen by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Art Futures artist residency program. She has done art residencies in schools across the country.

Raised in Arizona with the Catalina Mountains a constant presence, Cole daily encountered a landscape both dynamic and serene.  Her work today embodies her love of, and intuitive response to, the textures and interplay of light and color in nature.

At Stanford University, Cole studied history, art history, literature and anthropology and received a Bachelor of Arts with honors.  She continued her studies, earning masters degrees at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Syracuse University.

After several years as a high school teacher and educational television producer, Cole made the commitment to pursue art as a full-time career. She helped found Village Square, a crafts cooperative in Syracuse, New York, and became a successful ceramic artist.

Moving to Philadelphia, Cole participated in a program in which artists from many fields brought together their diverse ideas and experience to explore paper as an artistic medium.  This course proved to be a turning point and Cole has been working with paper pulp and mixed media ever since.

In paper pulp she found the ideal medium. Using handfuls of pulp as though it were clay, she could still get strong textures, but now she could work on a much larger scale, imbed objects and investigate the wonderful possibilities of color.

Cole draws on her diverse background to make her art. She uses multicultural references, both ancient and modern, and sees beauty in unexpected places. She takes the relics of our time  -- found manufactured items -- and, by combining them with paper pulp, transforms common everyday objects into iconic abstract sculptures.

More information and images are on the website www.carolcole.com

Education
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Barnes Foundation Seminar:  Advanced Theoretical and
Critical Studies in the Fine Arts

University of the Arts,  Philadelphia, PA
Papermaking Institute

Syracuse University,  Syracuse, NY
MS

Harvard University,  Cambridge, MA
MAT

Stanford University,  Palo Alto, CA
BA

Awards
2001-2002
Mentor of the Year, The Panta Rhea Foundation

Professional Affiliations
Philadelphia Sculptors
The Guild of Papermakers
The Fiber Arts Collective
The Dumpster Divers

Lectures and Talks
2004
Keynote speaker, Friends of the Gallery Annual Banquet, in conjunction with Paper Cuts Exhibit, Southern Utah University Museum, Cear City, UT

Professional Experience
1992-Present
Faculty, Main Line Art Center. Haverford PA

2002 and 2006
Artist/mentor in-residence, La Jolla Country Day School,
La Jolla, CA

2004
Art Futures artist residency, Philadelphia Museum of Art,  Philadelphia, PA

2003
Workshops instructor, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

1998-2002
Workshops instructor, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1995-2003
Instructor, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1995
Workshops instructor, Rittenhousetown Papermill,
Philadelphia, PA

Bibliography
2005
“Gutenberg Never Thought About Using Paper Like She Does” The La Jolla Light, December 29, 2005, pp.18-19

 “Inside the Artist’s Studio”  Philadelphia Style, Fall 2005, pp. 60-62

 “Philly Opens Studio Doors” American Style,  October 2005, p.40

 “Debris d’Art”,  American Style, August 2005,  pp. 76-82

2002
 “Making a Living Using Found Objects: An Interview with Carol Cole” The Crafts Report,  December 2002, pp 22-23

“Mentoring: A Different Way of Artistic and Career Growth”, Art Calendar, October 2002, pp 7-8

2001
Hall, Mary Ann, “Paper Crafts Gallery: Carol Cole”, PaperHouse, Rockport Press, 2001, p.118

1999
“Trash Talker: Eureka Exhibit showcases Carol Cole”, Syracuse New Times, September, 1999

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2007
Carol Cole, The Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton NY

2002
Connections/Reflections, Gotthelf Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1997
Transformations, Levering Gallery,  Philadelphia, PA

Group

2007
Pulp Function, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Curator: Lloyd Herman

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

Implements Implications, SCEE Gallery, Philadelphia PA

2006
Twenty-five by Twenty-five, Art on the Avenue Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Woven-Twisted-Twined: Redefining Fiber, Gallery DePaul, Lancaster, PA

Dumpster Divers: Secret Garden of a Fertile Mind, Journey Home Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Motherhood: the Myth, the Magic & the Madness, Crafts for Living Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Women of Culture, Art on the Avenue Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Between Dimensions, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Re: Form, The Figure in Found Objects, Crafts for Living Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Paper Guild, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

Gallery in the Garden, Hawk Mountain, PA

Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

A Papered Approach, The Hyder Gallery, Philadelphia , PA

Rearranged/Redefined: Domestic Objects Reconsidered, Main Line Art Center,  Haverford, PA

Fiber Feast, The Fiber Center, Amherst, MA

2004-2007
Paper Cuts:  The Art of Contemporary Paper, National museum Traveling Exhibition

2004
Fabulous Fibers, Lincoln Center Galleries, Fort Collins, CO

2003
Crafts National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

2002
Artifacts, Tres Studio Gallery, San Diego, CA

Not for Your Eyes Only, Borowsky Gallery,  Philadelphia, PA

2000
Paper in the Millennium, American Museum of Papermaking,   Atlanta, GA

Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2000, State Museum of Pennsylvania,  Harrisburg, PA 

1999
Artful Recycling, Eureka Crafts,  Syracuse, NY

Focus on Fibers, Art in City Hall,  Philadelphia, PA

1998
Five Sculptors, Gallery Siano,  Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Sculptors, Grounds for Sculpture,  Hamilton, NJ

1994
Paper/Fiber National XVII, The Arts Center,  Iowa City, IA

Commissions
2006
Tree of Life, Congregation Beth Am Israel, Penn Valley,  PA 

2002
Seventy Five, La Jolla Country Day School,  La Jolla, CA

Silverside, The Silverside Church,  Wilmington, DE

2000
Telecommunication 2000, Communications Test Design, Inc.,  West Chester, PA

1999
Connections, Communications Equity Associates,  Berwyn, PA

Shield, Isdaner & Company, Certified Public Accountants,  Bala Cynwyd, PA

1998
Balancing Act, Voorhees Pediatric Facility,  Voorhees, NJ

Branching Out,  Imasco Holdings, Inc.,  NY

Into the Future, and  Fragments,  Educational Testing Service,  Washington, DC

Dimensions, Market Dimensions, Inc.,  Media, PA

1997
Transformation, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,  Philadelphia, PA
10 pieces

Communications, Communications Equity Associates,  Berwyn, PA

1994
Putting It All Together,  Career Blazers,  King of Prussia, PA

1993
PC Dream,  The Institute for Cognitive Prosthetics,  Bala Cynwyd, PA