Background
Carol Ruth Shepherd was born on August 24, 1922, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.
Cornell University
Carol Ruth Shepherd was born on August 24, 1922, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.
Carol Shepherd received her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1944).
Carol Shepherd founded the Photo Graphics Workshop in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1971 and served as its director until 1978. The artist says of her work that she takes an "abstract and surrealistic approach to nature and found objects and subjects at home and abroad."
Carol Shepherd was a member of ICP's board of trustees (1978-1979) and belongs to the National League of American Pen Women.