Career
His professional experience in the Art began as an illustrator in the United States. Army. Later, he taught art in the Detroit Public Schools and served as staff artist for the school system. In addition to numerous private collections, his fine art has been on exhibition at: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New New York
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
The Art Institute of Chicago. The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.
The Detroit Institute of Arts. The Cincinnati Art Museum.
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia.
The North American Black Historical Museum, Ontario, Canada. The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan. And the Detroit Historical Museum.
In the early 1990s Carl Owens relocated to Atlanta.
Eventually, he held regular "life drawing" classes during the evening in his studio with other African-American artists. The informal class grew to become an important monthly event which now continues at Spelman College.
Carl Owens died December 11, 2002.
