Background
Carnwath, Squeak was born on May 24, 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Samuel and Shirley Carnwath.
Carnwath, Squeak was born on May 24, 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Samuel and Shirley Carnwath.
After high school, Carnwath studied art in Illinois, Greece, and Vermont before attending the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she studied ceramics, painting, and sculpture with Viola Frey, Art Nelson, Jay DeFeo, and Dennis Leon. She received her Master of Fine Arts from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977.
She is a Professor Emerita of Art from University of California, Berkeley. She taught at University of California, Berkeley from 1982 until 2010, having previously taught at California College of Arts and Crafts and Ohlone College. In 2006, her work was part of the traveling multi-media art exhibit The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama.
She currently has a studio in Oakland, California, where she has lived and worked since 1970.
President Artists' Legacy Foundation, Oakland, 2000.
Married Gary Knecht, 1973.