Alice Carter

Alice A. Carter is a writer, artist, Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University and the former co-director of education at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. She earned her BFA at the University of the Arts and her MLA at Stanford University. Academic honors include San Jose State's Outstanding Professor award, a Fulbright Fellowship in Cairo Egypt, the New York Society of Illustrator's Distinguished Educator in the Arts award, and the Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the...See more

Alice A. Carter is a writer, artist, Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University and the former co-director of education at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. She earned her BFA at the University of the Arts and her MLA at Stanford University. Academic honors include San Jose State's Outstanding Professor award, a Fulbright Fellowship in Cairo Egypt, the New York Society of Illustrator's Distinguished Educator in the Arts award, and the Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities. Carter's illustration clients have included LucasFilm Ltd., Rolling Stone magazine, The New York Times, and ABC Television. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the country, including the New York Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration, The Norman Rockwell Museum, the Art Institute of Houston, and the New Britain Museum. Carter's publications include The Art of National Geographic: One Hundred Years of Illustration; The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love; The Essential Thomas Eakins; Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in The Gilded Age, The Drawings of Edwin Austin Abbey, and (in press) Franklin Booth: Silent Symphony. In conjunction with her publications, Ms. Carter has curated exhibitions at the Woodmere Art Museum, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and The Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration. Carter serves on the Board of Trustees at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts and is a member of the Hall of Fame Committee at the New York Society of Illustrators. See less