Bio

Marcelyn (Lynn) Bennett-Carpenter is an interdisciplinary fiber artist and educator. Bennett-Carpenter maintains an active studio practice in Pontiac, Michigan, and exhibits throughout North America including a solo show called Handwoven Drawings at Matéria Gallery in Detroit and another called Singluars at the Crooked Tree Art Center in Petoskey, Michigan. Group shows include 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 (Birmingham, Michigan) and a large-scale installation for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Fisher Music Center (Detroit). Her Handwoven Drawings are included in numerous private collections and the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.


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 (2003-2023) at Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA) which is the largest hand-weaving studio in North America and is devoted to the education of young artists. Bennett-Carpenter has taught at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine. She attended the Open Residency at Haystack and was a Good Hart Artist-in-Residence. Lynn is also co-founder of the Namtenga Soundo Babisi, an active weaving co-operative in Burkina Faso, West Africa.