He has been a visiting artist or panelist at over a dozen art schools and university art departments, including those at the New York Studio School, the University of Washington, the Pennslyvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Hollins University, the College of William and Mary, Washington University School of Art, Smith College, the University of Virginia and the Yale University School of Art.

He has published numerous articles and interviews, most recently, an interview with the artist Frank Galuszka in the online journal Painting Perceptions. He himself has been the subject of a number of articles and interviews; the most recent being an interview conducted by Larry Groff in the online journal Painting Perceptions and a number of paintings reproduced in the art and literature review Catamaran.

Jeffrey Carr has recently retired from a long and distinguished career as an artist-educator. He has taught at the Hope School of Fine Arts at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, IN., the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, IN., Fontbonne University in St. Louis, MO., the Silvermine Guild School of Art in New Canaan, CT., and the International School of Art in Montecastello, Italy. He was a professor of Art and Chairperson of the Department of Art for over twelve years at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and was Dean of the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. from 2003 until his retirement in 2015.

Jeffrey Carr was raised in La Jolla and on the property he now lives on, in East County, San Diego. He attended La Jolla High School and the University of California at Santa Cruz, graduating with Honors in Studio Art in 1973. He attended the New York Studio School in Manhattan in the 1970s and graduated with an M.F.A. in painting from the Yale University School of Art in 1979. Jeffrey Carr is known for his large-scale still lives and for his almost life-size portraits of women, often in mythological or symbolic settings. These may be viewed on this website in the section “Older Paintings”. Since his retirement to East County, San Diego, he has returned to an early love of painting landscape, while continuing to paint smaller scale nudes and figure paintings.

Jeffrey Carr is a direct disciple of Gururaj Ananda Yogi and has had over forty years of experience as an educator and academic administrator. He is an accomplished artist, and, until his retirement, was an art professor at a number of colleges and universities, including serving for over a decade as the Academic Dean of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a historic art school and museum in Philadelphia. Professor Carr has been active with meditation and spiritual practice for over forty years and has been a disciple of Gururaj Ananda Yogi for almost 40 years. 

He is a Full Teacher in the American Meditation Society and does Satsang and commentary on the teachings of his root guru, Gururaj Ananda Yogi. He has taught meditation and spiritual traditions within several traditions and approaches and has had many years of training and spiritual practice within the Tibetan Buddhist and Dzogchen traditions. He is a Senior Teacher at the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, and has studied for fifteen years with Scott McBride of the Clearlight Institute in Philadelphia; completing a two-year program in the Clearlight Meditation Teacher Training program of the Clearlight Meditation Institute. His interests and experience include the teachings of Gururaj Ananda Yogi, Advaita Vedanta, Tibetan Buddhism, Dzogchen, Trika Shaivism, and the contemporary “Direct Path” teachings of nondual spirituality. Jeffrey Carr now resides in San Diego, California. His artwork can be seen at: www.jeffreycarrart.com