The art room has been my home since I was a little girl. I am an artist and a daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend. I have worked as an elementary art teacher for the past 20 +/- years. I enjoy the process of making art with young children. It is exciting to be there as they interpret their world through the medium of art. I have lived in Dallas, Austin, Philadelphia and back to Dallas.The stories in my art work come from these identities and experiences.
Carroll Swenson-Roberts Website-www.cswenson-roberts.org Email-lala34@swbell.net Born in Dallas Texas1957 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting University of Texas at Austin 1980 Elementary Art Teacher. Lumin Education Dallas,Texas 1997-2020
Gallery Representation Ft. Worth,Tx. Artspace111 Gallery-111 Hampton Road, Ft.Worth ,Texas-76102 Artspace111.com -817 692 3228 Dallas,Tx. Ro2 Art-1501 S. Ervay St. Dallas Texas 75215 Ro2art.com-214 803 9575
Solo Exhibits Dec.2021-January 2022 - Wish You Were Here - Artspace111 Gallery - Ft.Worth,Tx 2019- Garden of Earthly Delights - Ro2 Gallery - Dallas,Tx 2017- Temple of Small Wishes - Ro2@The Magnolia - Ro2 Gallery - Dallas,Tx 2015- Memory Palace - The Ant Colony Gallery – Dallas,Tx 2011- Outside the Back Door Texas Discovery Garden Gallery - Curated by Janet Reynolds – Dallas,Tx 2010- The March Show - the J. Erik Jonson Branch of the Dallas Public Library – Dallas,Tx
Selected Juried Shows 2017– Fourth Annual Artspace 111 Regional Juried Exhibition – Juror Shirley Reece-Hughes (Curator of Paintings and Sculpture ,Amon Carter) Museum - Artspace 111 - Ft. Worth,Tx 2016- Fourth Annual Juried Regional Show – Artspace 111 Gallery - Curator-Eric M. Lee director of the Kimball Museum - Ft. Worth,Tx 2016- Hecho En Dallas - Latino Cultural Cente - Curator -Benjamin Espino – Latino Cultural Center – Dallas,tx 2015- New American Talent XXII - Jurors-Terri Provencal and Barry Whistler – Craighead Green Gallery – Dallas,Tx 2015- I am You are - Art7Gallery - Crockett Community Art Gallery - Curator Ariel Davis - Ft.Worth,Tx 2014- Art in the Metroplex - Ft Worth Community Arts Center - Juror Sara-Jayne Parson (Director of The Art Galleries at TCU) - Fort Worth,Texas 2014- Hecho en Dallas - Latino Cultural Center - Jurors-Kayla Escobero, Lucas Marltell, Francisco Moreno, Arthur Pena, M. Giovanni Valderas - Dallas,Tx 2014- Expo 2014 - 500x Gallery, - Curator-Gabriel Ritter, Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Dallas Musuem of Art - Dallas,Tx 2010 -Art in the City - Creative Arts Center - Juried Membership Show - Jurors Frances Grinfelder, Nancy Cohen Israel, Vicki Meek – Dallas,Tx 2010 -Fictional Exhibit-Bath House Cultural Center,Dallas, Texas.Curated by Enrique Fernandez Cervantes
Selected Group Shows 2022-A Journey in Color and Line:Drawing the Metroplex- Artist Out and About -Bath House Cultural Center-Curators-Jan Dreskin-Haig and Lynn Smiser Bowers 2021 -Women at Work-CADD - Space@SieMatic -Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, Dallas,Tx 2020 -Included in the Covid Quarantine Group Shows Series @ Ro2 Art : My Corona &From a Distance&Back to the Future - Ro2 Art - Dallas,Tx 2019 -Group Exhibits presented by Office of Cultural Affairs - Art 214-Latino Cultural Center and Art 214 Oak Cliff Cultural Center – Dallas,Tx 2018- Women of Ro2 - Group Show Curated by Susan Roth Romans - Ro2 ,Dallas Tx. 2016- Ladies Night - Small Gallery – Curator Rita Bernard – Dallas,Tx 2014-Vanished - Frisco Discovery Center – Curators Leigh Starkey,Travis Veselka, - Frisco Tx 2014- Spoon !One Humble Utensil ,20 Artist - Agave Print - Curators Lauren Jabon, Elena Eidelberg, Austin Texas 2013- Work Included in the Artist Wall Mural - NlC Gallery - Northlake College - Irving Tx 2013- The Ordinary and The Everyday - Re Gallery – Curated- -Wanda Dye - Dallas Tx 2013- \\Doing Lines// - Continental Gin Loft - Curated Liz Trosper – Dallas, Tx
Collection-Publication- Art Fairs-T.V. shows 1993- 2014 - Art work included in the Belo Collection of Texas Art - Curated by Judith Seguro and Murray Smithers – Dallas ,Tx 2018- Friend of the Artist Volume 6-Artwork included in curated art publication. 2017- Dallas Arts Fair, Ro2 Gallery, curated by Jordon Roth, Susan Roth Romans 2017- Austin Arts Fair. OFG.xxx gallery, Curated by Kevin Rubén Jacobs 2012- Artwork included in the TV series Blue Blood - The art was playing the part of the art of a murdered children’s book illustrator 1980-1993 included in various group and one women shows at public places and private galleries in Texas ,Connecticut and Alabama