Linda Carpenter

A native Floridian, Linda Carpenter has been an exhibiting fine art photographer since 1978. She has received numerous awards including a United Arts of Central Florida Individual Artist Recognition Award in 1999 and a Florida Humanities Scholar Research Fellowship for the photography and oral history project, Identity and Home Interpreted by Central Florida Asian American Women. Her landscape images are in the collection of the Florida Secretary of State in Tallahassee, the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, SC, the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art in Norman, Oklahoma, and in private collections.

Her photographs have been included in juried and invitational exhibitions including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City, The Florida Capitol, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, Brevard Art Museum, Maitland Art Center, Pennsylvania State University, the Naples Museum of Art in Naples, Florida, the Cornell Museum of Fine Arts at Rollins College, the Harris House at the Atlantic  Center for the Arts, and others.

Carpenter has a bachelor’s degree in English from Florida State University and a master’s degree in liberal studies from Rollins College. She teaches photography at Crealde School of Art and Valencia Community College.