Carolyn Lawrence
Painter Carolyn Lawrence grew up in Houston and received a degree in education from the University of Texas in Austin in 1961. She started teaching in Gary, Ind. immediately after graduation, and then went on to complete her MA in art education at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Lawrence was a member of the Organization for Black American Culture (OBAC) and took part in the creation of the “Wall of Respect” in Chicago, which sparked an urban mural movement and set off the chain of events that led to the founding of the AfriCOBRA collective. Lawrence joined the group in the spring of 1969, while teaching art at Kenwood Academy High School in Chicago. She contributed to the group’s first museum exhibition, “10 in Search of a Nation,” at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1970. She continued teaching at Kenwood Academy, where she also served as art department chair, until she retired in 2001. Since then she has returned to her art and honing her craft.“Our offering to the planet is valid enough for us to feel good about ourselves.”
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