Carol Dunford Jackman (BA ’55) grew up watching her dad relax by sculpting. As a BYU art student, she worked with oils and watercolors, but after raising five kids she returned to study sculpture under BYU art professor Dallas Anderson. “I wasn’t great as a painter, but in sculpting I found my passion and came into my own,” she says. Her deep love of the human form, “God’s greatest creation,” as well as her experience as a woman and mother bring emotional vitality to her work. Now at age 92, her creativity and sculpting continue unabated.
“Sculpting is an integral part of who I am,” she says. “And I hope that my work portrays the joy I feel for life. . . . I sculpt for the love of it and from the deep emotional need to do it.” She says her greatest joy is in having people engage with and respond to her art.
