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Dave Carter

About Us

About Our Art

dave carter received a BFA in Studio Art from Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, Missouri, with concentrations in Painting, Ceramics, and Photography. dave served as graphics manager for a sign company from 1996 through 2010. In February of 2011 he and his wife, Sally, opened “dave’s studio—Visual Art Services” in Kirksville. The shop offered artwork, art supplies, art classes, and commercial design/sign production. His wife having accepted a position at Southeast Missouri State University, the couple moved to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, during the summer of 2014.

dave displayed his paintings at the annual Red Barn Arts & Crafts Fair in Kirksville from 2008 through 2012, winning Best of 2-D Work in 2009. In 2012 three of his paintings were included in the Kirksville Arts Association Regional Juried Art Show and again in 2013 as well as that organization hosting his one man show in March of 2014 titled, “Places of Rest”. He has had several of his paintings included in Where We Can Read the Wind, and Turning the Clock Forward Again, the 2012 and 2013 editions of VSA Missouri’s yearly publication. Four of his paintings toured Missouri in 2012/13 and again in 2014/15 as part of VSA Missouri’s traveling art show. He has participated in “Art for the Health of It” at Des Peres Hospital in St. Louis and at Southeast Missouri Regional Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Additionally, two paintings were displayed in Cape Girardeau as part of Southeast Missouri Arts Council’s 2012 Annual Juried Regional Art Exhibit. dave received an Honorable Mention for his oil painting, “Shadows” in the Missouri Top 50 show during the 2014 State Fair in Sedalia.

dave carter is a Juried Member of the Best of Missouri Hands in Painting and he participated in the BOMH invitational exhibit in Hannibal during the spring of 2013. dave was a founding member/Vice President of Missouri & Southern Iowa Art Guild (MOSI) in Kirksville. He is currently a member of the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri and the Visual Artist Cooperative in Cape Girardeau.

dave’s studio-Visual Art Services is in the process of launching “VanGo Mobile Art Supplies”—a vintage 23’ RV converted into an extensive art store and traveling studio for the Cape area. For more information contact dave carter at 660-216-8669, email davesstudio@hotmail.com, or visit his page on Facebook.

Juried Artist/Studio:

Dave Carter

Short Description:

Painting

Contact Number:

660-216-8669

Email Address:

davesstudio@hotmail.com

Awards and Honors

2009 Best of 2D Work–Red Barn Arts Festival, Kirksville, MO

2012 Two paintings included in VSA publication “Where We Can Read The Wind”

2014 One painting included in VSA publication “Turning the Clocks Forward Again”

2014 Honorable Mention Missouri Top 50, State Fair, Sedalia, MO