Mickett Stackhouse Bio
Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse had their first extended conversation in 1999 when Stackhouse was a guest on Mickett’s Kansas City radio show Art Radio. Later that year, The John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation, a major collector of Stackhouse’s work, commissioned Mickett to produce and direct a documentary on the artist. Working together on this prize-winning documentary, Robert Stackhouse: an artist at work, convinced Mickett and Stackhouse to continue their collaboration. They have subsequently produced large-scale sculpture, painting, and prints, and engaged in various art/business endeavors. Mickett and Stackhouse’s recent work (2008) includes a series of shows/installations in the greater Tampa Bay, Florida, area including the Contemporary Art Museum at USF-Tampa, Waves of Meaning at the St. Petersburg Art Center, and Site-Matters at the Tampa Museum of Art. In 2009, they have been commissioned by the Hunter Museum of American Art to construct the sculpture Place in the Woods in Chattanooga, TN’s Renaissance Park.
Robert Stackhouse is best known for his large-scale architectural sculpture and large-scale paintings. His works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Australia, The Walker Art Center, and The Art Institute of Chicago among many others. He has held endowed chairs at Hartford University, the University of Denver, and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Florida, is Professor Emeritus from the Corcoran School of Art and is the recipient of three NEA grants.
Carol Mickett, in addition to her work in the visual arts, has worked as a free-lance producer, director, and writer. Dr. Mickett’s work includes director of History Speaks, a video archive of the history of Kansas City, guest editor/writer for a special issue on the history of the arts in Kansas City for Kawsmouth, a journal of history from the University of Missouri-Kansas City; a producer/writer for Uniquely Kansas City, a 5 part documentary on the arts in Kansas City for Kansas City Public Television; and director/speech writer for the American Business Women’s Association’s annual conferences. Mickett is the recipient of numerous grants and has published essays, poems, and interviews in Canadian Philosophical Review, Hypatia, Prairie Schooner, and New Letters among others. Dr. Mickett, who worked for over a decade in academia, holds her Ph.D. in philosophy.