21 Facts About Carol Wax

Carol Wax was born on June 17,1953 and is an American artist, author and teacher whom the New York Times called "a virtuoso printmaker and art historian" for her work in mezzotint and her writings on the history and technique of that medium.

Carol Wax was born in New York City on June 17,1953.

Carol Wax graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1971.

Carol Wax earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1975 from the Manhattan School of Music, where she majored in flute performance.

Carol Wax continued to work as a professional musician until 1980.

Carol Wax held a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1986 and received an Artist's Fellowship Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1987.

Carol Wax conducted technical experiments based on her historical research and for a few years she devoted more of her time to research and writing than her own artistic production.

Carol Wax photographed all of the technical illustrations for that volume, as well as much of the flatwork, and produced the line drawings.

Carol Wax has a keen eye for the particulars and a broad knowledge of the subject.

Carol Wax found that her increased technical confidence expanded the scale and complexity of her imagery.

Carol Wax has executed several commissions for mezzotint editions from Cradle Oak Press at Bradley University, in Peoria, Illinois, Stone and Press Gallery, the Albany Print Club, the Matrix Program at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana, and the Print Club of Rochester, New York.

Impatient with the time-consuming requirements of mezzotint's grounding process, Carol Wax developed ways to prepare mezzotint grounds more efficiently and in 1996 designed a system for attaching adjustable weights to the rocker, the mezzotint engraver's most important tool.

Carol Wax curated exhibitions at Heuser Art Center Gallery, Bradley University, in 1994 with John Heintsman and the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1996 with Earl Retif.

At the Rhode Island School of Design, Carol Wax taught several semesters of Intaglio for Printmaking Majors, and a class in Direct, Non-Toxic Intaglio Printmaking.

Carol Wax has taught intaglio and woodcut courses for several years at the State University of New York at New Paltz and, in winter 2002 term, a course on Print Connoisseurship in New York University's School of Continuing Education.

An Artist's Fellowship Grant in 2003 from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Concordia Career Advancement Award the following year enabled Carol Wax to acquire and refurbish a secondhand etching press that was large enough and powerful enough to accommodate her bigger plates.

Since January 2007, Carol Wax has taught printmaking as an adjunct professor at New Jersey's Montclair State University.

Carol Wax has held visiting artist positions on numerous occasions and has presented dozens of mezzotint demonstrations and workshops, as well as slide lectures at universities, colleges, arts organizations, and museums throughout the United States.

Carol Wax's prints are held by many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Boston and New York Public Libraries.

Carol Wax's prints are available through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Mezzanine Gallery.

Part of that gift included ten mezzotints by Carol Wax that were placed on special exhibition on the second floor of the Lavin-Bernick Center.