Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints, renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole invited her to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams and Thames & Hudson in 1990, and in paperback by Abrams in 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. A newly revised, expanded and updated Second Edition of The Mezzotint was published by Schiffer Books in 2023.

Recognition of Carol's art includes an Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., two Artist Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Concordia Career Advancement Award from NYFA, The Louise Nevelson Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program.  A selection of the many collections that own her prints are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York and Boston Public Libraries, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Library of Congress, and The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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