Carolyn McIntyre Norton spent her childhood observing the natural areas around the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and the mountains of North Carolina with a camera from Sears and a box of watercolors. Her work is still highly influenced by the wonder of the natural world and the need to protect these areas.
She explores themes of grasslands and waterscapes through printmaking, photography, and handmade artist’s books. Her imagery is the result of responding to sound or observing motion, and often eliminates visual cues of horizon and scale to invite the viewer to enjoy an experience differently.
Norton’s work has been shown within galleries such as the Blank Wall Gallery in Greece, Davis Orton Gallery in New York, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, Manifest Gallery in Ohio, and the PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont. Her solo show, The Shape of Water, exhibited at the Meridian Museum of Art in 2023. She won Best of Show in 2022 at the 48th Annual Meridian Museum of Art Bi-State Exhibition, was a 2021 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography nominee, was included in the 2020 Mississippi Museum of Art Invitational. All of her handmade artist’s books and boxes have been acquired by the Special Collections Library at the University of Southern Mississippi.
As a founding partner of the Singing River Art Studio—a gallery, studio, and workshop space—she is proud to be a part of revitalizing the North Main Historic District of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
She holds an MFA in studio art from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas and a BFA in Communication Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University.
She has taught visual arts at the university level for 20 years in Texas, Maryland, Mississippi, and Abroad establishing the University of Southern Mississippi’s non-toxic printmaking studio and intaglio printmaking class.
Email | carolyn@carolynnortonart.com
Instagram | @carolynnortonart
Website | carolynnortonart.com
CV | Link to pdf
MFA Thesis | Link to Parlance