Caroline Covington is a promising young sculptor living and working in Tennessee. Caroline earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2012, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Georgia. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, TN where she teaches sculpture and art history.
Her current research examines the gruesome rituals, violent superstitions, and archaic rites of passage perpetuated within contemporary communities. Her work exposes the anxieties and apprehensions felt towards the myths of the past and the uncertainties of the future, specifically addressing Southern and Appalachian mysticism and folklore.