Miles Burkholder Carpenter was born on May 12, 1889, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was the son of Wayne M. Carpenter, a farmer, and Elizabeth R. Burkholder Carpenter. He attended a one-room school and with his ten siblings worked on the Mennonite family’s farm. In the spring of 1902 the family moved to Virginia, where his father acquired a 340-acre farm near Waverly, in Sussex County, and also constructed a sawmill. On May 19, 1915, Carpenter married Mary Elizabeth Stahl, of Carbon County, Pennsylvania. They had one son.
With financial assistance from his father Carpenter purchased a vacant factory in Waverly about 1912 and soon began operating a lumber mill that produced finished wood for local builders. He added his own sawmill to his enterprise and also began making and selling ice. For several years beginning about 1915 Carpenter joined a partner in operating an open-air theater showing silent movies. Occasionally tinkering with wood scraps, he made a violin and incis
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Unfolding Shrines is an exhibition produced by Shape Arts, in collaboration with Hot Knife Digital Media, where four artists Jason Wilsher-Mills, Sophie Helf, Rebekah Ubuntu, and Uma Breakdown present art in augmented reality.
Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation, based in London, which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists
They say The imagination of the marginalised has always tended toward the ‘radical , steered by the palpable need to create something new where the old is unfit for purpose. Where outdated systems have failed, might these radical redesigns proffer alternative futures?
(New York, New York) â The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) announced today the promised gift of a pair of portraits by John Brewster, Jr. The portraits have been given by Trustee Karin Barter Fielding and her husband, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, in honor of AFAMâs 60th anniversary. These works are the first by the artist to enter the Museumâs collection and are notable as representations of an iconic early folk artist.
Brewster is well known as a prolific itinerant portraitist who worked throughout New England in the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, residing in Connecticut and later in Maine. His biography offers a rare window into the experience of a Deaf person in the first decades of the United States. Research on the artist confirms that he communicated by gesture and in writing. In 1817, when Brewster was in his 50s, he returned to Connecticut in order to attend the newly opened American School for the Deaf. He later went back to Maine, where he wou