Jeffrey Carr, internationally known artist and educator, serves as Dean of Academic Affairs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In this pivotal leadership role, Carr advises the students and faculty of the nation's first school of fine arts. Professor Carr comes to the Academy from St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he served as Chair of the Department of Art & Art History. 

As both a teacher and practicing artist, Carr has enjoyed a long relationship with the art and artists of Philadelphia, most recently as an exhibitor in the Pennsylvania Academy's "Imaginative Affinities" (September '02 - January '03). He has also exhibited extensively across the country, including solo shows in Philadelphia, New York, Indianapolis, Virginia and Maryland. 

Carr taught in Montecastello, Italy, at the International School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in 2002. His career has also included positions at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, the Hope School of Fine Art at Indiana University, Bloomington; the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut and the Pratt Institute in New York.