Linda Carpenter, Photography Instructor

A native Floridian, Linda has been an exhibiting fine art photographer since 1978. She earned a Bachelors Degree from Florida State University and a Masters Degree in Liberal Studies from Rollins College. She has received numerous awards including a United Arts of Central Florida Individual Artist Recognition Award in 1999. She is a Florida Humanities Scholar Research Fellow for the photography and oral history project, Identity and Home Interpreted by Central Florida Asian American Women. After a recent exhibition in the Florida state capitol, one of her pieces was chosen to be included in the collection of the Florida Secretary of State in Tallahassee.

Linda joined the Crealdé photography faculty in 1982. Her photography has been included in museum collections and numerous juried and invitational exhibitions, including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, the Oklahoma Museum of Art, and the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City.

Artist's Statement
"I continue to work on a series of "dysfunctional" landscapes related to icons that alter the meaning of the natural landscape or challenge our conceptions about the photographic landscape. Romantic notions about the land, for example, are often contradicted by the realities of affluence and consumption and our desire to dominate nature."

Gas, 1999

Selected Exhibitions
The Other Florida,
Florida Capitol, Tallahassee, 2000

United Arts of Central Florida
Individual Artists Recognition Awards,
Group Show, Orlando City Hall, 2000

One Person Exhibition,
Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Va., 1998

The Art of Photography,
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Fla., 1996