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Wade Carter
The Artist in the Library
Wade Carter almost didn’t meet his wife. After winning the Cora Stafford Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Art Student at the University of North Texas in 1979, and armed with a Fine Arts Degree in painting, and drawing, he went to NYC. There he interned in interior design, and had his own design construction business, using his knowledge and sense of aesthetics and space to renovate commercial and residential spaces.
Meanwhile his future wife was dancing on Broadway with Yul Brynner in The King and I. After ten years in The Big Apple, Carter decided to go to graduate school, returning to his roots at University of North Texas, but changing his direction by getting a Masters degree in Library and Information Science. SFA Library Webmaster Carter came to Nacogdoches in 1990, and, here, twenty years after being in the same city at the same time, Wade met his wife, Elizabeth “Libby” Rhodes.
Away from the Web Development Office, Carter paints abstract landscapes and representative imagery, recently exhibiting in Houston at “Celebrating Texas Art 2006,” a show juried by Jeffrey Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art at the High Museum in Atlanta. He also did a one-man show previously at SFA.
Carter says his curious mind led him into Library Science because it’s a fascinating field and “a way to give back to the culture I’m part of,” a culture the soft-spoken generalist notes that it is “satisfying to be part of.”