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SPEAKER_01: Hello. From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Encyclopedia Wamanica. In five minutes every weekday for a year, we're telling the stories of women throughout history who you may or may not know about, but definitely should. Every month has a theme, and this month, we're talking about dreamers, women to remember due to their creative accomplishments. Today's Dreamer was an award-winning illustrator and visual artist who beautifully and eloquently represented the experiences of African Americans and African American community life through her work. I'm talking about American artist Carol Byard. Carol was born in Atlantic City in 1942 to William Bunny Byard and Viola London Byard, the second of two children. Her father came from the American South, while her mother's family came from Barbados and Granada. Just a year after Carol was born, her mother passed away, and around the same time, her father was drafted into World War II. Carol was subsequently raised by her father and grandmother with help from her large extended family. She attended public schools in Atlantic City and credited a high school art teacher with motivating her and teaching her about the seriousness of art. After high school graduation, Carol was offered a full four-year scholarship to an art school in Ohio, but was unable to go after her father was diagnosed with cancer. Instead, she stayed home and started working as a simulation pilot at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center nearby. From 1961 to 1963, Carol studied at the Fleischer Art Memorial in Philadelphia while using her wages as a simulation pilot to support herself. After working and helping her father for a number of years, Carol moved to New York City in 1964, where she lived with her aunt Millicent. She attended the New York Phoenix School of Design from 1964 to 1969, where she majored in illustration. She also studied lithography under a famous artist Robert Blackburn. It bothered Carol that there were very few other Black artists at her college. Since childhood, Carol had loved both books and art, but felt the representations of her life, the lives of her family, and the real people she saw every day were missing from both. In an effort to connect with other Black artists, Carol attended the now legendary exhibition called Where We At, Black Women Artists 1971. There, she made connections with other Black women artists like Faith Ringgold and was soon a core member of an emerging group. After college graduation, Carol worked as an illustrator for magazines before realizing that her true passion was illustrating children's books. Her first book project was a biography of dancer Arthur Mitchell, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem. Around that same time, Carol moved from her apartment in Harlem to the Westbeth artist community in the West Village. At Westbeth, she was surrounded by up-and-coming artists like her neighbor Freddie Waits and soon joined the community's Black Artists Guild. In 1972, Carol received a Ford Foundation grant to travel to Africa for three months, where she visited Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Egypt. It was a formative experience for her and significantly informed her future work. Carol's illustrations almost always focused on the experiences of African Americans and African American life, as well as folklore and stories of African heritage. Since she had seen such little representation of her own life in the books of her childhood, she was determined to change that for the next generation. Carol illustrated more than 16 children's books over the course of her career, including The Black Snowman, the story of a boy who brings a black snowman to life using city snow and a magical kente cloth. Carol received a Caldecott honor as well as multiple Coretta Scott King awards for her work. And her work wasn't just limited to books. Carol also designed album covers for Strata East Records, a New York City jazz label during the 1970s. Carol maintained a lifelong practice of painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media art, and she continued to be a fierce, active advocate for other black artists. Over the course of her career, Carol also taught at different art schools and museums, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Parsons School of Design. A community artist to the very end, Carol passed away in 2017 at the age of 75. Through her work, Carol told the stories of her community and ensured that the next generation could look at books and art and see people who look like them. Tune in tomorrow to hear about the life of another incredible dreamer. We'll be heading back in time to talk about a masterful impressionist. This month of Encyclopedia Wamanica is brought to you by Casper. Casper's mattresses and other products allow dreamers to turn today's ideas into tomorrow's reality. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister, and the brain behind this amazing collection of women. Talk to you tomorrow.
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