Prior to the Fulbright, Carter
worked for Charles Eames as a graphic designer and also worked in the studios
of UCLA's University Extension and Robert Miles Runyon and Associates. His
design work has been published and shown in journals, award annuals and
exhibitions including the New York Art
Directors Club Annual, Graphis, Graphis Annual, CA Annual, and the Los Angeles Art Directors Club Annual. His
original and highly unorthodox typeface, "Maya," was first published by Andresen Typographics and later by Precision Type and was showcased in Print Magazine.
In
addition to his design work he has created fine art works in diverse mediums
including drawing, painting, printmaking and video art (tapes and interactive
video environments).
This
work has been shown in one-person exhibitions including the New Jersey State Museum; Minneapolis
Institute; University of Michigan Museum of Art; Everson Museum, Syracuse; Johnson Museum
of Art, Cornell and the Anthology
Film Archives, New York City.
Group
exhibitions have included the Whitney
Museum of American Art's first major Video Art show; the International Museum of Photography at Eastman House's "Photo/graphics" and
the Museum of Contemporary Craft's "The Great American Foot" for which Carter designed the poster and was given a special gallery to exhibit his "Flexible Foot Extenders," a modular participatory art work for use by museum visitors.
His work
is in thirty-one public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Center
for Creative Photography; International Museum of Photography at Eastman House;
Philadelphia Museum of Art and the
Library of Congress.
His
poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Barrow Street, Connecticut Review,
Cream City Review, LIT, Margie, Mudfish,
North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, Sycamore Review,
Third Coast, Verse, Verse Daily, Washington
Square and Western Humanities
Review.
He
has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Carnegie
Mellon Press October Competition, the University of Wisconsin
Press Brittingham and Pollack Prizes in Poetry, the University of
Akron Poetry Prize and the UCM Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize.
Carter is a life long practitioner of African and Afro-Carribean drumming and dance. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study the master drumming for Agbekor, an ancient dance of the Ewe tribe of Ghana.
He has also received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London.
He has also received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London.
