Pat Musick

Pat Musick, American contemporary artist was born in Los Angeles, California in 1926. She has been a professional artist for forty-five years. Her work consists of both large and small-scale sculpture and two dimensional art using natural media such as wood, stone, paper, beeswax. Musick’s art is concerned with the fragile nature of our environment and the human/nature relationship responsible for its survival. She attended the University of Southern California on an art scholarship and received an MA and PhD from Cornell University. Pat taught at the University level for twenty-five years, lectured across the United States and appeared in many TV interviews. Her work is in over fifty museums and public spaces in the United States. Musick has written four books on art, one of which was co-authored by her husband, Jerry Carr. A documentary of the life of Pat and her husband, retired Astronaut and noe her collaborator, will be released in the Fall of 2018. The working title is The Artist and the Astronaut. Her archives are housed in the Cornell University Kroch Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts.