18 Facts About Carson Grant

Carson Grant moved to New York City in 1970 to study acting technique with Lee Strasberg.

Carson Grant joined the professional acting unions: Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Actors' Equity Association; and was represented by the William Morris Agency, who created the stage name 'Carson Grant'.

Carson Grant trained with Wally Harper, who coached his baritone voice, and Phil Black who trained him with modern jazz and fencing.

Carson Grant performed various acting roles with New York City Opera and began his film acting career in films as Man on a Swing, The Front and Death Wish.

Carson Grant portrayed 'Romeo' in Romeo and Juliet at New Jersey Shakespeare in the Park and was young 'Thomas Jefferson' in The Last Ballot in the WNET 13 Bicentennial series.

Carson Grant had a cobalt blue 'graffiti tag' of a pine tree coastline with his initials CFG, and on a midnight graffiti session, he had painted ten foot high cobalt blue iris flowers stretching the block-long 100 foot wall on the Lower East Side Con Edison plant, at Avenue C and 14th Street, titled "Open your Irises", in protest of the pollution produced by the energy plant.

For two summers, Carson Grant backpacked and walked much of the USA photographing damaged natural reserves.

In 1981, as the WSAC group marched to Lincoln Center to protest President Ronald Reagan's budget cuts to the Arts, Carson Grant's photographs appeared on the front page of the Westsider Newspaper,.

Carson Grant exhibited his artwork in alternative spaces throughout the boroughs, as one of the artists in the New York City 1970's and 1980's Art Movement.

Carson Grant presented his research at Georgetown's Drama Therapy Association 1985 convention.

Carson Grant attended and taught at Pratt School of Art and Design, New York City to enhance his knowledge of computer graphics and digital editing.

Carson Grant was honored with the SIGGRAPH Vision in Art Award.

Carson Grant participated as a visual artist in many group art exhibitions in New York City as a curator, a contributing painter and photographer.

In 2015 Carson Grant was honored to model for Bernando Siciliano's painting of Jesus being taken down from the cross, exhibited at the Alcon Gallery, NYC.

In 1998, Italian director Edoardo Amati asked Carson Grant to portray his lead character in the film Master Shot.

In 2008, Carson Ferri-Grant was elected Vice President of GIAA and represented GIAA delegate on the 4 A's meetings chaired by President Theodore Bikel.

Carson Grant has won a number of artistic and civic awards, including the Rhode Island Scholastic Gold Key Art Award, Avon Foundation grant 1981, America The Beautiful Fund grant, ACM SIGGRAPH: Vision in Art Award, and the GIAA Italian American Heritage Award.

In 2008, Carson Ferri-Grant was honored with a membership into the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution through the Rhode Island Chapter.