Laurie Schirmer Carpenter

Biographical Info Laurie Schirmer Carpenter grew up in northwestern Illinois and graduated from Loretto Heights College in Denver, Colorado with a degree in English Literature in 1967. When her two daughters reached high school age, she enrolled in the University of Colorado, Denver to study art, graduating, With Distinction, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a BA in Art History in 1988. She has been painting full time since then. When her husband was transferred to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1990 she became reacquainted with her Midwestern roots and developed an interest in the flat landscape, especially the skies, which are often depicted in her paintings. Moving to northwestern Indiana in 2006, she continues to paint the land and skies of the Midwest.

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