Karen Dee Carpenter, a Tyler School of Art alumna who made the leap from painter to filmmaker and now is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate in film and media arts at Temple, recently accepted a 2005 Cultural Arts Award grant from the Princess Grace Foundation USA at a black-tie gala in New York City. Carpenter won for her fifth production, “Sarah & Dee.”
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Karen Dee Carpenter, who returned to Temple for film, is winning notice and awards.
A painting, says Karen Dee Carpenter, is simply one frame of a film. And that explains how — and why — the Tyler School of Art alumna made the leap from painter to filmmaker after getting her B.F.A. in painting in 1987.
She has clearly landed at the doorstep of success. Carpenter, now a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate in film and media arts at Temple, was in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 26, to accept a 2005 Cultural Arts Award grant from the Princess Grace Foundation USA at a black-tie gala hosted by CNN’s Larry King. [more]
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