Born and raised in Virginia, Carol graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in art from Hollins College. She married a career military officer in 1974 and moved so often she was termed “a traveling printmaker” in one newspaper article about her career. Over the years Carol has continued to study taking design, drawing, and printmaking classes at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington, and the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia, and workshops with master printmakers such as Carol Wax, Dan Welden, Daniel Heyman, and Nathan Kanofsky.

Carol’s work has been exhibited in numerous regional and national exhibitions across the United States and overseas in Australia, Czechoslovakia, and Northern Ireland. Her award winning prints, drawings and artist books can be found in public and private collections including the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Zimmerli Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, the United States Library of Congress, the Newport Art Museum, Wheaton College, Villanova University, and others.

Carol worked for several years as curator for Gallery 297 in historic Bristol, Rhode Island, and Congress Street Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Currently she runs a studio/gallery at 297 Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island, and teaches classes/workshops in the fine art of printmaking for the Providence Art Club, South County Art Association, and other area organizations.

She has served on the board of several art organizations including the Art League Rhode Island. Author of print articles for the Journal of the Print World and The Artist's Magazine, Carol has achieved the rank of artist member in the Boston Printmakers, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the American Color Print Society, the Audubon Artists Inc., the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Association of Women Artists, and the American Artists Professional League. She is also a juried artist member of the Printmakers Network of Southern New England in Connecticut and the Providence Art Club in Rhode Island.