About the Artist
Carol L. Starr’s professional career encompasses service in private and public sectors, working as a speechwriter and legislative analyst for the Senate Finance Committee and business consultant before making education a primary focus. Carol worked as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer, administrator, curriculum developer and supervisor in Montgomery County Schools and national facilitator for the National Institute for School Leadership.
An award winning visual artist in high school, she has been a strong advocate for the humanities and arts education. She is now taking the opportunity and time to refocus, experiment, develop, and apply graphic design, color, and multimedia to create vibrant visual representations of the beauty and drama that surrounds us. She has worked and studied with Glen Kessler at the Compass Atelier in Rockville, Maryland and also with Michael Shibley and Bonny Lundy at the Yellow Barn in Glen Echo, Maryland.
Most recently her painting “Moonlight in Arles” was selected in the Emerging Artists Exhibition in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Her watercolor, "Big Sur Shores," was awarded honorable mention in the 2019 Women’s Club of Chevy Chase Annual Art Show. Ten of her works were selected for the 2019 Spring/Summer Exhibition at the Oasis Gallery in Westfield Motngomery Mall in Bethesda. This fall a large display of her work will be featured in the Rockville Mayor's Office.
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Artist's Statement
I use the power of color and perspective to capture and interpret the essence and inspiration of visual glimpses that touch our deeper emotions primarily using oil and watercolor. My work has been recently been selected to exhibit in selective exhibits in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Rockville, .and Gaithersburg
