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Carrie Olsen is a multi-media artist. Works include bronze, steel, aluminum, cement, clay, wood, papier-mâché and plaster. Her work can be found in public and private collections in the United States, Middle East, and Japan. Her portrait sculpture is found in many homes and businesses. She also has taught classes in portrait and figurative art and technical classes in some of the mediums she uses. She has sculpted portraits including Sir Walter Lindal of Lindal Cedar Homes, Joe Bob Briggs of television, and Kaoru Iwamoto, the renowned Japanese Go master, and many other individuals.

She has created elegant and whimsical horses from steel and cement and even car parts. She has to created a series of whimsical horses which have been extremely popular. These horses, too, have won awards, and have been sent to Japan for an exchange of art with sister cities through the Port of Everett, Washington.

Her figures of clay and aluminum are each totally unique, made by pouring aluminum in a manner that attaches it to fired clay pieces. This is an unpredictable but exciting technique, and yields pieces varied in texture and form.

Carrie Olsen has studied in the US and France, learning portraiture and figurative art as well as forensic facial reconstruction.

INSTRUCTOR: Classes and seminars in portrait, figure, and general sculpting techniques. Assistant instructor in lost wax casting, Bellevue, Washington.

COMMISSIONED WORK (partial list):
•Go Center of Seattle: cold cast copper high relief portrait of Kaoru Iowamoto, Japanese international master of Go.
•Sir Walter Lindal (Cedar Homes): bronze portrait for corporate headquarters and private home.
•Pinnacle Effects, Seattle : portrait sculpture of Joe Bob Briggs, used on national movie channel.
•Portraits of individuals and families.

EDUCATION:
ART STUDIES:

• • Archie-Bray Foundation, with Beth Cavener Stichter and Tip Toland
  •Forensic facial reconstruction: Cleveland Institute of Art, Loveland Academy of Art with Betty Pat Gatliff
  •Portrait and abstract sculpture: Peter Rubino, Loveland Academy
  •Portrait and figurative sculpture: Martine Vaugel, Les Cerqueux sous Passavant, France
  •Portrait and figurative sculpture: Bruno Lucchesi, Eugene Daub, Simon Kogan, and others through the Scottsdale Artists’ School and Cleveland Institute of Art.

• Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN GENERAL SCIENCE: University of Iowa
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICINE: University of Iowa Medical School
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT DEGREE: University of Iowa Medical School