Bio

Marcelyn (Lynn) Bennett-Carpenter is an interdisciplinary fiber artist and educator. Bennett-Carpenter earned a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2003. She served as the Artist-in-Residence of the Kingswood Weaving Studio at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2003-2023). The Kingswood Weaving Studio is the largest, most beautiful hand-weaving studio in North America with 60 floor looms all devoted to the education of young artists and was designed by Finnish architect, Eliel Saarinen. Bennett-Carpenter also taught at Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine (2023), Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, attended the Open Residency at Haystack (2018) and was a recent Good Hart Artist-in-Residence (2022). Lynn is also co-founder of the Namtenga Soundo Babisi Studio, an active weaving co-operative in Burkina Faso, West Africa that was established in 2007.

Bennett-Carpenter maintains an active practice through her studio in Pontiac, Michigan, and exhibits throughout North America including a solo show called Singluars at the Crooked Tree Art Center in Petoskey, Michigan, Landscapes Real and Imagined (Site: Brooklyn, New York), Extreme Fibers: Icons and the New Edge (Muskegon Art Museum), and The Social Fabric (Textile Society of America, Vancouver, British Columbia). Recent work includes a commission for the Applebaum Family Foundation in Birmingham, Michigan and a large-scale installation for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Fisher Music Center.